The Hermitage has opened an exhibition dedicated to the 90 anniversary of the famous Italian poet, writer, writer, painter and sculptor, Tonino Guerra

in the State Hermitage Museum opened an exhibition dedicated to the 90 anniversary of the famous Italian poet, writer, writer, painter and sculptor, Tonino Guerra. The exhibition presents the book "Honey", released by the Rare Book from St. Petersburg, as well as four mosaic panels created by Marco Bravura on drawings Tonino Guerra.

• Tonino Guerra Poem" Honey. 2010
  Specimen № 1. In Russian
  Binding: linen, hand printing, ceramics

Tonino Guerra - by scripting many films, among them: "And the Ship Sails ...»," Amarcord "Federico Fellini," Red Desert "and" Eclipse "by Michelangelo Antonioni," Marriage Italian-Style "by Vittorio De Sica," Nostalgia "Andrei Tarkovsky.

In 2004, during a visit to the exhibition "ABC Tonino Guerra", held at the State Hermitage, Peter Suspitsyn, founder of the publishing houses and the Rare Book from St. Petersburg ", creates unique hand-made books limited edition, the idea to make a book with the legendary maestro of what they have agreed in the spring of 2009. Unanimously chose one of the best works of Tonino Guerra - poem "Honey", tells the story of two brothers, met in his native village after many years of separation.

• Tonino Guerra «Med. A page from the book
  2010. Publishing "Rare Books from
  St. Petersburg»
  hand-made paper, mixed media
• Tonino Guerra « Med. A page from the book
  2010. Publishing "Rare Books from
  St. Petersburg»
  hand-made paper, mixed media

Work on the first instance of "Honey" was completed by 15 March 2010, specifically to the 90 th anniversary of Tonino Guerra. Copies of the book is only 5 copies. For each of them maestro manually written 8 large-format illustrations in mixed media and 21 of the original plot - in watercolor and tempera. Brush Tonino Guerra creates vivid visual images, where every detail is filled with profound meaning. From simple things - stones, trees, flowers, fruits, fluttering butterflies - the maestro creates a picture of the whole world.

inspired ceramics and drawings by Tonino Guerra, P. Suspitsyn designed the cover of the book " Med. Binding executed A. Degteva and A. Kulikov: it covered with a linen cloth honey-golden color, produced by Italian textiles Pascucci in the XIX century. The cover is decorated with ceramic insert a drawing Guerra, made for this book.

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She translated the poem into Russian author's wife - Laura Guerra. The text of the book is printed by hand on S. Yashin printing machine XIX century Dinglersche maschinen paper manual copyright casting of A. Lurie. A copy of the book number one donated to the State Hermitage.

curator of the exhibition - IB Gogulina, head of the Sector Funds Research Library of the State Hermitage.

The exhibition runs until May 30, 2010.

Source: hermitagemuseum.org