"Yuri Cooper. Theatrical novel" in the Museum named after Bakhrushin
ARTinvestment.RU   25 апреля 2017

This is the first show of Cooper, entirely dedicated to his work as set designer. Famous artist-шестидесятник did the performances with many Directors, including Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Efremov and Nikita Mikhalkov

State Central theatre
the Museum of A. A. Bakhrushin
21 April — may 28 2017
Moscow, Bakhrushin str., 31/12
gctm.ru

Theatre — is not just a great love of the artist. Cooper himself is a man-театром. Fine artist, stage designer, poet, he was able to solve the most complex problems. In particular, one of its projects in Russia was the reconstruction of the interiors of the Voronezh drama theatre. Koltsov.

Cooper worked with many great Directors: American Robert Altman, the Frenchman Marcel Marechal, Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Vladimir Petrov. With Nikita Mikhalkov, the artist was preparing the performance of "unfinished piece for mechanical piano", set in Italy in 1988 with Marcello Mastroianni. Unfortunately, sketches and materials of the work are almost lost. Of other high-profile theatrical works Mikhalkov can remember a production of "Metamorphoses" of 2016 on the works of Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin. The materials of this production presented at the exhibition.

in addition to them, the exhibition shows sketches of scenery and costumes George Cooper for the following productions: Opera "Boris Godunov" at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow (2007, directed by Alexander Sokurov), "Othello" in Perm (2008, directed by Vladimir Petrov), "Carmen" in Rostov (2008, directed by Yury Laptev), "Eugene Onegin" in Samara (2012, directed by Vladimir Petrov), "the Nutcracker" ballet at the Bolshoi theatre in Minsk (2010, directed by Alexander Tikhomirov).

Yuri Cooper is part of top-100 the most expensive artists of the postwar unofficial art. Auction record for his work was set in 2010 at Sotheby's when the painting "Window. Street dassa, 56," was sold for $71 500.

Sources: tvkultura.ru, rg.ru, gctm.ru

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