Gabriadze exhibition at the Pushkin Museum
Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, October 15 - November 18, 2012
st. 12 Volkhonka
Main Building, Italian courtyard
Pushkin Museum continues the projects dedicated to creative individuals known for their achievements in various fields art.
today at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin a solo exhibition of works by L. Revaz Gabriadze.
new project Pushkin Museum Pushkin is different from the previous ones, the fact that the creator of the world famous puppet theater and screenwriter favorite films of national cinema - "Do not Cry", "Kin-Dza-Dza", "Mimino" and others - art is not a "second vocation ", and first and foremost.
Gabriadze was born in 1936 in the city of Kutaisi, Georgia. People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, winner of the State Prize of Georgia, Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. Studio art education he received from the three masters - Valiko Mizandari sculptor, artist Dmitry Takaishvili, painter, graphic artist and director Tengiz Mirzashvili.
Gabriadze The first exhibition was held in 1952 in Kutaisi. Created 16 years bust Rezo Gogol participated in city exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of his death.
addition to permanent painting and sculpture, Gabriadze graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Tbilisi State University. During this period Gabriadze drew illustrations for his articles in newspapers and magazines, worked linocut. Later entered the Higher Scenario Courses (class of A. Kapler) in Moscow. In the 1960s and 70s Rezo worked in film, including as art director, author sets and costumes. Gabriadze - by more than 35 films. All his scripts Rezo supplemented with drawings and sketches.
In 1981 Gabriadze founded a puppet theater in Tbilisi, which fully realized himself as an artist, creating scenery, puppets and costumes. Rezo performances with great success have played so far on the best stages in the world.
Gabriadze commonly known as book illustrations. He illustrated books by Russian writers and poets - Pushkin, D. Harms, contemporary authors - five books Andrei Bitov, six volumes of Michael Zhvanetsky etc. More than 50 books feature his drawings. Gabriadze created a gallery of graphics on the life of Alexander Pushkin: a series of "Pushkin in the Caucasus", "Pushkin in Tbilisi", "Pushkin abroad", etc.
Gabriadze - author sculptures adorning the St. Petersburg and Odessa. Among them are "finch-fawn", "Nose Major Kovalyov" and "Rabinovich».
also Gabriadze is an architect and sculptor Tower, which opened in 2010 in Tbilisi. The tower is decorated hundreds of tiles painted by Rezo. Every hour of the Tower goes zlatokryly Angel and hits the bell twice a day in the Tower doors open and the music there is a small theater performance.
over the last decade in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the six personal exhibitions Gabriadze. His work has been exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia on a joint exhibition - the U.S., on display in the City Gallery in the house Lenbach in Munich. Rezo work stored in the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), at the Museum of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Moscow), Anna Akhmatova Museum (St. Petersburg), the All-Russian Pushkin Museum (St. Petersburg), in theater Museum Bakhrushin (Moscow) and the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. Paintings, drawings and sculptures Gabriadze are in public and private collections around the world.
The exhibition at the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin presents about 100 works Gabriadze. This pictorial and graphic works from the series: "Telman Street" (1975), which played out scenes from everyday life, "Managers" (1972-1995) - a scene that could peek at the theater, "small encyclopedia Kutaisi" ( 1997) brings together portraits of the characters and scenes from the life of this city, "Portraits" - it combined portraits of real people, which Gabriadze knew well - for example, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava, Merab Mamardashvilli and images of historical figures - Leo Tolstoy, Konstantin Stanislavski , Guillaume Apollinaire.
very special place in the artist takes an image of Alexander Pushkin, to whom the artist dedicates original series "Pushkin". Another hero Gabriadze - the largest Georgian symbolist poet Galaktion Tabidze (1892-1959), whose name is also called the series "Galaktion».
In addition, the exhibition presents puppets from Puppet Theatre performances Gabriadze "Autumn of our spring", "Stalingrad", "Daughter of the Emperor of Trebizond," as well as sculptures of the famous Siskin-Pyzhik and Rabinovich, the originals of which are set in St. Petersburg on the Fontanka River (finch-Pyzhik) and Odessa (Rabinovich) . Ceramic miniatures will be composed panels.
talent, combining visual and literary and lets Gabriadze achieve success and recognition in different areas and with order to remain faithful to his world, where the twisted funny and tragic, prompted by imagination and exactly what he saw in his life, deeply intimate and friendly to everyone. As an artist, Gabriadze has tremendous ability to "capture tragicomic side of everyday life in this tragikomizme express the essential aspects of life, with a rare pairing of humor and lyricism, sensuality and spirituality." He is able to quote a well-known art historian E. Kuznetsov, "from the material of reality to create a myth that rivals this reality with his truly unbridled imagination, able to soar away from its object propelled and easy to return to it».
objective of the exhibition presented in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin - to focus the viewer's attention on the visual arts, and through him to look at the career of the master as a whole.
As stressed Irina Antonova, director of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, "we are confident that in the Pushkin Museum, with its" universal responsiveness "of Gabriadze will find its context and its audience».
Source : Press Release Pushkin Museum. Pushkin
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