Artists of the Moscow small stage 1917-1932 years in the gallery "Elysium"
ARTinvestment.RU   07 марта 2018

The exhibition "the avant-garde time. The small stage. Moscow. 1917-1932" dedicated to the pioneering discoveries of the artists of experimental theatre. The project is timed to the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the gallery "Elysium"

At the forefront of time. The small stage. Moscow. 1917-1932
7 Mar — on April 8 2018
Gallery Elysium, Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, CHA

a New exhibition project continues a series of exhibitions of "Elysium", dedicated to the Russian avant-garde theatre: "Monuments of Russian theatrical avant-garde" (2006), "Artists theatre Kasian Goleizovsky. 1918-1932" (2012). The exhibition "the avant-garde time. The small stage. Moscow. 1917-1932" dedicated to the interesting and poorly understood phenomenon in the history of theatre-декорационного art in the first third of the twentieth century — Moscow "small stage".

the period — 1917-1932 — intensive creative searches and experiments that led to the innovation of artistic language of theatre. The theater became a "tribune" which proclaimed the ideas of a new world. Particularly striking experiments were carried out on a small stage. Small group, short program, no clutches classic theatrical formats — were allowing Directors and producers especially safely conduct your formal search.

the Exhibition returns to the history of art, a number of names of artists who worked in small theatrical venues whose activities have played an important role in the formation and development of "conceptual avant-garde theatre". The terms of these authors, of course, much wider than twenty-four persons, which sketches included in the exhibition, and is more than two hundred names.

Many of the works of this exhibition will appear before the audience for the first time in the last fifty and more years; among them works by such artists as A. A. Taldykin, N. V. Antimirova, N. N. Suckling, R. V. Raspopov, A. K. Burov from Museum storerooms continue reading them. A. A. Bakhrushin. Alexander Taldykin, brilliant painter, has collaborated with many theatres, including the Fourth Studio MKHAT, the Moscow stray theatre "Stall with comedians", the "Blue blouse". His work in those years distinguished by a picturesque and almost sculptural "FilePlanet" conditional picturesque forms. Viewers will be able to assess inventive costumes NinaAntimirova for the Blue blouse, and bright, done in unexpected ways collages Nicholas Sosunova. The exhibition will feature sketches of scenery, designed by architect Andrey Burov. His works demonstrate not only the purely architectural approach to the decoration of the stage and custom stage design techniques are not usually characteristic of theater artists.

Very technical in his work Mikhail Bespalov, sketches which give an idea about the design author to reveal the secrets of the "net change". He masterfully decorated with a small scene of Theatre of Satire, having in the theater about 20 reviews.

You will see the little-known early sketches of Eugene Zotov, Sophia Sheldysheva, Vsevolod sakhnovskaya. These artists were able to compose a costume, in a few seconds transforming actor in the eyes of the astonished audience, or perhaps to invent, as of the three actors to "put down" the car.

Among the artists in the exhibition found a lot of very famous authors such as Basil of Komardenkov, Boris Erdman, and Isaac Rabinowitz. A surprise even for the experts would be fine early theatrical works of famous Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Yuri Zavadsky and Nicholas Foregger, a lot of experimenting in the 1920-е years and often acted and Directors, artists, and actors at the same time. And if fine art is quite well known Eisenstein, sketches Zavadsky absolutely not known to a wide audience. Drawings of Foregger demonstrate extraordinary artistic skill of the author and their characters, as everyone draws choreographers have a special plastic, allowing viewers to evaluate not only the costumes of the characters, but the way they move.

works for the exhibition were provided by: continue reading them. A. A. Bakhrushin, the Russian national Museum of music, RGALI, Moscow Museumart academic theatre, the State academic Maly theatre, the Moscow academic musical theatre. K. S. Stanislavsky and VL. I. Nemirovich-Данченко, Moscow academic satire theatre, the Central scientific library of the Union of theatrical figures of Russia, as well as the family (heirs) artists and private collectors in Moscow.

the Result of serious research, which was conducted in cooperation with the state Central theatre Museum im. AA Bakhrushin RGALI, Moscow many museums, theatres, archives and libraries, the theatre, became a scientific exhibition catalogue, which includes many theatre-декорационных works, most of which published for the first time and will become for the audience a real discovery.

Special attention deserves the "Chronicle of the Moscow small stage 1917-1932", created on the basis of archival documents. For the first time compiled a list of Moscow theatres small stage, a systematic large array of information about the rich and diverse creative activities of artists of the small stage. The text includes about 200 illustrations (including the unique documents from the family archives): theatre-декорационные work, reproduced in the periodical press 1920-30-х years, and rare photos of scenes from plays, posters, and theater programs, and photographs of theatrical figures of the post-revolutionary decades, and even cartoons on them. Excerpts from the art criticism of those years have a value of the first source and reflect the turbulent and controversial theatrical life of his time, giving the opportunity to feel the breath of the era.

the Exhibition "the avant-garde time. The small stage. Moscow. 1917-1932" is the first attempt to present the complete image of the Moscow small stage in the diversity of stylistic trends and artistic personalities. Her published directory. Some of the published unique materials can serve as a starting point for further artresearch.

Source: elysium.ru