The exhibition of this renowned master from Buriatia (Siberia) will include sculptures, graphics and decorative arts. Archaeological masterpieces from the Hermitage's vast Siberian collections will be shown alongside Namdakov's works.
The sculptor's compositions, permeated with the ancient Asian motifs, has already been successfully exhibited together with archaeological finds in different museums around the world

 The Italian art movement Spazialismo (from the Italian word Spazio – space) perceives painting and sculpture as one art, combining colour, sound, space, movement and time. Its forthcoming is connected with the name of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), an Argentinean-born Italian, who moved to Paris in 1947. Fontana appealed for art, which would embrace modern science and technology. He used in his creations such materials, as neon light, radio and television.
The Hermitage exhibition presents, besides Fontana’s, about 80 artworks by various Spazialist artists. Most of them belong to Riccardo Licata. The compositions by Italian painter Ricardo Licato, presented for the first time in the Hermitage, impress by the traditional for Mediterranean culture bright colour and expressive graphics, bordering on the symbolic abstract forms, reminiscent of ancient scripts. Antique and Byzantine motifs are combined with the Northern European ornaments. Drawing on the past traditions the artist develops style and aesthetics of abstract expressionism, which conquered the post-war Italy.

It is the inaugural presentation of a remarkable new facet of the Khalili Collections, perhaps best known for the their unparalleled Islamic and Japanese art. The exhibition will feature some 320 pieces selected from approximately 1,200 works in the enamel collection.
The exhibition includes splendid enamelling by the most prestigious European masters - Faberge, Jean-Valentin Morel and Rene Lalique, and works by many of the 18 and 19 century enamellers, little known to the general public. Professor Nasser D. Khalili’s achievement has been not just to present their work but to show them working in a global environment and, whether European or Asian, transcending the boundaries of national frontiers or individual enterprise.