The exhibition of paintings, sketches of scenery and costumes, to illustrate the classic theatrical productions, including numerous tales made for different theaters of great theater artist Ivan Sevastiyanov (1920-2004)

Today, at 19.00 in the Central House of Artists (room number 9, 2 nd floor) opens exhibition «Hundred theatrical sketches» Honored Art Worker and People's Artist of the RSFSR Ivan Vasilyevich Sevastyanova (1920-2004) .

first time in the last forty years of art and theater lovers will be able to see about a hundred works great theater artist. On a personal exhibition at the Central House of Artists will be presented ten paintings, sixty-six graphic sketches of decorations, done in mixed media and about thirty sketches of costumes, performed mostly in watercolor. They are all created by Ivan Sevastiyanov to various theatrical productions, mostly in the Novosibirsk and Leningrad - St. Petersburg in the years 1945-1995.

exhibition curator Ksenia Tsann-kai-si, the author-compiler of the catalog issued for the project: «the spring of 2006, collecting the first auction of Russian and Soviet art auction house" Kabinet "I first saw the work of Ivan Sevastyanova in one of the secondhand shops in Moscow. Then I was aware of him only that he for a long time worked as a chief artist of Opera and Ballet of SM Kirov - Former-Mariinsky future - and after his death, the heirs sell his work. However, in several folders with sketches of scenery and costumes have been clear that this is only a small part of the vast heritage of a very bright and talented theater artist. Then I got about two hundred of his works. Over the years, some of these folders was razdareno friends that it put up for auction, bought part of everyday life familiar to architects and designers of interiors of private homes. But most of the way and lay in folders ».

Of course, the legacy of the artist has extensive: only in Saratov Sevastyanov established as an artist over thirty productions, and even a few dozen - in the Novosibirsk and Leningrad, numerous productions in the eighties in theaters countries whereas the socialist camp and the Soviet republics . Total - about two hundred theatrical productions! Each production - is a few tens if not hundreds of pieces of cardboard or paper meter size, painted gouache, tempera, watercolors. Each costume - sometimes for dozens of actors in mnogoaktnyh Opera - worked out with remarkable care, until the guidance material, pin stripes pins to the sheet, listing the names of several artists formulations. Such sensitivity was very typical of Alexandre Benois. In fact only the numerous inscriptions on the sketches - in French.

Ivan Sevastyanov lived a long life. He was born in 1920 in the Saratov region and died in 2004 in St. Petersburg. Given the time and place of his life, only to wonder how well a his fate. Thirties - early forties years in Saratov - a huge success for the novice painter. First and foremost is the city where the «density» of bright and talented Russian artists «per unit of time and space» exceeded all reasonable limits. And while the forties, when Sevastyanov studied and began to work, Victor Borisov-Musatov , Pavel Kuznetsov , Petrov-Vodkin and Utkina in Saratov was not, all the prerequisites for learning and life in a unique artistic environment created.

He studied at the Theater-Set course Saratov Art College. Entrance to the school was, in fact, the side entrance to the building Radischevskaya museum. The museum, originally formed AP Bogoliubov , with its unique collection of French paintings (Alexander III permitted to select for the Bogoliubov the museum a number of paintings from the Hermitage store, Imperial Academy of Fine Arts Museum was the donor) to the fortieth years of the twentieth century has been - one of the paradoxical actions of Soviet power - a first manned Russian painting of modern times. Portfolio , Golovina , Ulyanova , Lentulov , , Krymov , , Ekster , Shevchenko entered the museum, along with pictures of great saratovtsev. All this together gave the opportunity to get a truly European art education in hundreds of kilometers away from Moscow and Leningrad and thousands - of European capitals.

In college, he was a student and I. Shcheglova B. Milovidov , a student Utkina . During the war years - again to the question regarding the time and place of his fate - he became a disciple and assistant , the chief artist evacuated to Saratov Moscow Arts Theater, in his youth - a student of Petrov-Vodkin and experimental studio Sun studio. E. Meyerhold. After the war - a disciple of N. Gushchina, a prominent Russian artists abroad. He again appeared in Saratov «thanks» ban on residence in the capital after the return from exile in 1947. Then back to Saratov, after ten years of Stalin's camps, another brilliant artist, a man from the debris of the Silver Age - Valentin Yustitsky.

In 1940, Sevastyanov went to work in the theater. And in 1945 he was already the chief designer of Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater. In that year there put «Faust» Sh Gounod. This «Faust» in the collection was made with oil sketch scenery I action.

Since 1952, Sevastyanov was the main designer of Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. This is perhaps the most fruitful period in his life. Dozens of productions. In fact, by the way, great Russian theater. Stage depth of 30 meters with a fly height of 29.5 meters. The Great Hall holds about 2 000 visitors. And all this splendor - to the artist's main theater. In Novosibirsk, Sevastyanov put «Enchantress», «May Night», «Sadko», «Romeo and Juliet», «The Tale of Tsar Saltan», «Swan Lake», «Boris Godunov» and much more - almost all of the classical operatic repertoire, and a lot of ballets. There were also many experimental things: Hungarian opera classics Frents Erkel «Bank Ban», Ballet Chinese Zhang Xiao-hu «Precious flower lotus». In Novosibirsk, Sevastyanov was named National Artist of the RSFSR. This meant many in the artistic hierarchy in the sixties of the last century. Indeed, it remains one of the criteria of professional artist and a realistic assessment of its achievements. «The People's Artist» under Soviet rule that was not said, as the title of «class artist» in the czarist Russia.

In the years 1963-1976 Sevastyanov worked at the Kirov Theater in Leningrad. Some of the most beautiful designs of this period - to the «Russian» Opera and Ballet - published in the printed catalog for the exhibition. «Prince Igor», «Boris Godunov», «Khovanshchina», «The Tsar's Bride» - constant part of any Russian opera repertory theater. Here, Sevastianov had many predecessors: from , Korovina , Dobuzhinsky , Golovina to Roerich and Fyodorovsky . All are to some extent influenced his artistic style. Portfolio Sevastyanova, of course, are common traditions of Russian theater art.

Throughout his life Sevastyanov was demanded as an artist. Since 1952, he participated in all major exhibitions of theatrical-decorative art. And in 1971 went solo exhibition in Moscow.

Legacy of the artist Ivan Sevastyanova - many times more represented in the catalog and the exhibition. It would certainly explore the art critics and historians of the theater - and can only envy the one who will work in the future with these bright, living, skilled and talented work done, not worthy of a small exhibition, a large retrospective show of beautiful movie, more books .

It should be noted that this exhibition will be interesting as an adult amateurs and connoisseurs of fine arts and theater, and children alike - because it presents a classic illustration of theatrical productions, including numerous tales.

The exhibition is open from 5 to 17 May 2009 in CHA (Krymsky val, 10) Hall № 9 (2 nd floor).

Source: Press Releases CHA