The Anatoly Zverev Museum (AZ Museum), the Two Andrews Foundation, the New Space of the Theater of Nations present an exhibition within the framework of the XXXIX MIFF “Breaking into the past. Tarkovsky & Plavinsky"
to the 50th anniversary of the film "Andrei Rublev",
85th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Tarkovsky,
80th anniversary of the birth of Dmitry Plavinsky
On June 20, 2017, the AZ Museum, together with the Two Andrews Foundation, will open the exhibition Breakthrough into the Past. Tarkovsky & Plavinsky" at the New Space of the Theater of Nations.
In the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the film Andrei Rublev, the curator of the exhibition, Polina Lobachevskaya, brought together two artists of the 20th century: Andrei Tarkovsky and Dmitry Plavinsky.
Tarkovsky and Plavinsky never met in person, but the paradigms of their creative searches largely coincided. Both of them were attracted by the aesthetics of the Christian icon, as the embodiment Christian worldview as the way to artistic improvement as a path to self-understanding. Filming of Andrey Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky took place in Izborsk, Suzdal and Vladimir, around the same time Dmitry Plavinsky was traveling in the Russian North and working in a church in Izborsk.
As part of multimedia project"Breakthrough to the Past" will feature: 15 paintings and etchings by Dmitry Plavinsky from the collection of the AZ Museum and private collections; unique documents, photos and video materials from the archives of Irma Raush-Tarkovskaya, Pavel Safonov and Mikhail Romm, provided by the Two Andreis Foundation; archives of Vadim Yusov, Savva Yamshchikov and Alexander Mstislavsky.
The project will be accompanied by a film lecture “Two Andreys. Inner Circle" and the program "Around Tarkovsky", which will include screenings full version film "Andrei Rublev" and world film masterpieces. Film lecture hall and film screenings: every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. The entrance is free.
New Space of the Theater of Nations: Strastnoy Boulevard, 12.
Opening hours: 13:00 - 21:00. Day off - Monday.
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)- film director, classic of world cinema, author of 7 full-length films, each of which became an event in the history of cinema. Multiple laureate of Cannes, Venice and other film festivals. Tarkovsky's films are kept in all the cinematheques of the world, his creative legacy studied by students of all world film schools. Hundreds of articles and dozens of monographs have been written about Tarkovsky. Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Alexei German, Jean-Paul Sartre and many others admired his cinematic genius.
Dmitry Plavinsky(1937-2012) - artist. Creator of the direction of structural symbolism. From the late 1950s, he participated in the most important nonconformist exhibitions. From 1991 to 2004 he lived and worked in New York. His work has been purchased from American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA (Museum contemporary art in NYC). The works of Dmitry Plavinsky are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the State Russian Museum, in museums and private collections in Russia, Europe and the USA.
Project Producer - Natalia Opaleva
Production designer - Gennady Sinyov
media artist - Alexander Dolgin
Sound design - Svyatoslav Ponomarev
Film curator - Vyacheslav Shmyrov
Working with archives - Zoya Kosheleva, Tatiana Jensen
Consultants - Irma Raush, Maria Plavinskaya
Exhibition coordinators - Natalia Volkova, Anastasia Spirenkova
AZ Museum- the only one in Moscow private museum one artist - outstanding painter XX century Anatoly Zverev. Opened May 27, 2015. CEO- Natalia Opaleva, art director - Polina Lobachevskaya.
Fund "Two Andrey" is a non-profit foundation for supporting cultural and cinematographic initiatives, established in 2015. General Director - Vyacheslav Shmyrov.
On the eve of the 39th MIFF, the New Space of the Theater of Nations opened multimedia exhibition“Breaking into the past. Tarkovsky & Plavinsky”, presented by the Anatoly Zverev Museum and the Two Andrey Foundation. Andrei Plakhov visited the exhibition.
The most impressive part of the exposition is the cellar in the 19th century mansion, under the semicircular vaults of which the film "Andrey Rublev" is decomposed into its component parts. Each of his short stories, up to the final "The Bell", is presented on monitors and freeze-frames, fixing close-ups key characters and crowded crowd scenes. Photo and video materials are taken from the archives of Irma Raush-Tarkovsky, Pavel Safonov, Mikhail Romm and others. Nearby are documents tracking difficult fate a great film - as it should be, subjected to censorship and corrections, lying on the shelf and, contrary to the initial ban, ended up at the Cannes Film Festival. There she received the FIPRESCI prize, which started her world fame.
On a separate monitor, you can hear how at the same festival, only half a century later, the current Cannes winner Ruben Östlund, as well as Bruno Dumont, Takashi Miike and Sergey Loznitsa, speak about the significance of Tarkovsky for world cinema. The large panel quotes the words of several other superstars of world stage direction - Ingmar Bergman, Andrzej Wajda, Wim Wenders, Carlos Reygadas, Alexander Sokurov. The heroes of two cinematic eras, modernist and postmodernist, speak in unison. “If I hadn’t seen Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood, I would never have made Eight and a Half” (Federico Fellini). “If not for Tarkovsky, I would not have become a director” (Lars von Trier).
This is really phenomenal - how much Tarkovsky's world fame has multiplied posthumously. I am regularly convinced of this by inviting eminent guests to the Zerkalo festival: the name of Tarkovsky becomes a magic key that opens the most impregnable doors. This year the jury of the "Mirrors" was headed by Amat Escalante, bright representative new Mexican cinema, at first glance, infinitely far from the traditions of Tarkovsky. But this is not so: Escalante is a real admirer of the Russian director, and one should have seen with what close attention to every detail he looked at the exhibition dedicated to him.
However, Tarkovsky the only hero exposition, the second was the painter and graphic artist Dmitry Plavinsky. There are undoubted parallels in their destinies: both went through emigration, and it was not the most favorable experience. Plavinsky eventually returned to his homeland, and Tarkovsky, who remained in the West back in the days iron curtain, did not find the desired conditions for creativity there, experienced many disappointments and soon died. There are similarities in the creative preferences of the two big figures era. The concept of structural symbolism developed by Plavinsky is not alien to Tarkovsky: it is not for nothing that the critic Maya Turovskaya called her text about the film "Ivan's Childhood" "The world split in two." The interest in metaphysics, surrealism, the heritage of Dürer, Goya, Rembrandt and other great artists also brings together the director and the artist.
However, main topic exhibitions is different: it is a "breakthrough into the past", which is understood as a new discovery of the icon and, in general, early Orthodox culture the young generation of artists of the "thaw" in their clear opposition to Soviet class values, layers of ideology and propaganda. Although Tarkovsky and Plavinsky never met, their creative paths crossed: just as Andrei Rublev was being filmed in Pskov, Izborsk, Suzdal and Vladimir, around the same time, Plavinsky turned the previously boarded up church in Izborsk into a platform for a new cycle of his works. . And here in the multimedia installation we see a montage: large banners with images of "Rublyov" and a striking etching by Plavinsky "The Shroud of Staritskaya".
Plavinsky's Christian discourse is obvious and beautifully illustrated in the exhibition by his works. different periods. As for Tarkovsky, his relationship with religion is a rather complex and debatable topic. At the time of the creation of Rublev, the director, as well as the co-author of the script, Andrei Konchalovsky, were still very young people. The origins of Russian Christianity attracted Tarkovsky rather aesthetically, and through the image of Rublev he expressed own understanding the fate of the artist, a premonition of the great mission given to him. Later, this understanding deepened and sharpened to a real, personally experienced drama, which included the persistent motive of seeking God, not only, by the way, in the spirit and forms of Christianity.
The exhibition project in the New Space of the Theater of Nations, carried out by the efforts of many people, was supervised by Polina Lobachevskaya, an outstanding teacher who taught more than one generation of directors, and later put her soul and professionalism into the sophisticated design museum of Anatoly Zverev. It is the personality of the curator, equally close fine arts and cinema, defines the unique face and style of the exhibition, the concept of which may cause controversy, but the emotional impact is undeniable.
In one space - the New Space of the Theater of Nations - the organizers combined materials related to the creation of the great film "Andrey Rublev" and the works of an amazing artist, one of the pillars of nonconformism Dmitry Plavinsky. The duet turned out to be all the more surprising because the characters did not know each other and had never met.
Let's start with the magic of numbers. This is important because everything matches. The exhibition is dedicated to several anniversaries- the 85th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Tarkovsky, the 80th anniversary of the birth of Dmitry Plavinsky, in addition, Rublev (1967) was released half a century ago. The exhibition was born in an interdisciplinary field thanks to the creative energy of the staff of the Anatoly Zverev Museum (AZ Museum), the Two Andrews Foundation and the New Space of the Theater of Nations.
And yet the question is why the world-famous film director and outstanding artist, known to connoisseurs and connoisseurs, found themselves in the same space - needs commentary. They are almost the same age, people of the same generation. Here is another striking coincidence: Andrey Rublev was filmed in Izborsk, Suzdal and Vladimir, around the same time Dmitry Plavinsky traveled around the Russian North and worked in a church in Izborsk. It is no coincidence that the artists chose the same places, this also has a motive of rapprochement, kinship. But the main thing that unites them is the metaphysical dimension. Then, at the end of the thaw, their reflections on the meaning of existence, the destiny of man developed in one direction. At a time when life was reduced to everyday life, at a time when life, including spiritual life, was deliberately simplified, they deliberately looked for complexity in life, the complexity of simple things, complicated the ordinary, refused the obvious. Therefore, the graphic fantasies of Dmitry Plavinsky - trees sprouting through temples, saints, literally dissolved in nature, images woven from the smallest elements of the universe, fantastically resemble shots from Andrey Rublev. This is not only a purely visual consonance, but what is much more important, an ideological one. The need for self-identification, the search for God, spiritual searches with a vector - deep into, into oneself, into history, all that reflection inspiring creativity, which helped not to suffocate in the conditions of impending stagnation.
The exposition is made in such a way that the viewer will not be able to walk through the halls with the even step of a passive observer, he will inevitably be involved in the search process. In order for the idea to be fully realized, there is even a scheme according to which one should move around the exhibition.
On the ground floor "The Way", documentary preamble - detailed biographies heroes and all sorts of factography: quotes about creativity, photographs. We rise above, here is the "Imprint of Memory" - painting and graphics by Dmitry Plavinsky. Nearby is a voluminous multimedia installation that unites two artists: the “Memory” hall, the meditation hall. On the ground floor of "Passion for Andrei" there are archival materials, many of which were made public for the first time, fragments of working recordings, a photo and video chronicle of the filming process. The authors of the project say that this part of the exhibition can become the core of the future Andrei Tarkovsky Museum.
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15 paintings by the sixties artist Dmitry Plavinsky, rare documents and materials, film screenings of the full version famous movie"Andrei Rublev" will be available in the New Space of the Theater of Nations. Exhibition titled “Breakthrough into the Past. Tarkovsky & Plavinsky opens on June 20 and ends on July 20, 2017.
Despite the fact that two outstanding contemporaries, Tarkovsky and Plavinsky, did not communicate during their lifetime, according to the curator of the exhibition and art curator of the AZ Museum Polina Lobachevskaya, the creative searches of the artists and their paths largely coincided. Both, for example, were inspired by the world of the Russian icon. Both artists, by the way, for a long time worked abroad.
Dmitry Petrovich Plavinsky (1937-2012) - soviet artist nonconformist, one of the founders of this movement. In addition to symbolic surrealism with Christian motives, the artist was widely known for the September 11 Apocalypse, dedicated to the death of skyscrapers from a terrorist attack in the United States in 2001. Paintings by D. Plavinsky are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin and others. The artist's works, which will be available to the public, are part of the collection of the private museum of the artist Zverev (AZ Museum) and a number of private collections.
Andrei Arsenievich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) - Soviet film director, son of the poet Arseny Tarkovsky. The author of the films "Andrey Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror", "Stalker" and others, which have become cult and received awards, including the Cannes Film Festival. The exhibition will feature materials from family archive the first wife of Tarkovsky, colleagues and friends of the director M. Romm, S. Yamshchikov and others.
The project was launched as part of the Moscow International Film Festival 2017.
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On June 20, 2017, the AZ Museum will open exhibition project“Breaking into the past. Tarkovsky & Plavinsky" at the New Space of the Theater of Nations.
In the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the film Andrei Rublev, the curator of the exhibition, Polina Lobachevskaya, brought together two artists of the 20th century: Andrei Tarkovsky and Dmitry Plavinsky.
Tarkovsky and Plavinsky never met in person, but the paradigms of their creative searches largely coincided. Both of them were attracted by the aesthetics of the Christian icon, as the embodiment of the Christian worldview, as a path to artistic perfection, as a path to self-understanding. The filming of Andrey Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky took place in Izborsk, Suzdal and Vladimir, around the same time Dmitry Plavinsky traveled around the Russian North and worked in a church in Izborsk.
As part of the multimedia project "Breakthrough into the Past" will be presented: 15 paintings and etchings by Dmitry Plavinsky from the collection of the AZ Museum and private collections; unique documents, photo and video materials from the archives of Irma Raush-Tarkovskaya, Pavel Safonov and Mikhail Romm, provided by the Two Andrey Foundation; archives of Vadim Yusov, Savva Yamshchikov and Alexander Mstislavsky.
The project will be accompanied by a film program, which will include screenings of the unreleased full version of the film Andrei Rublev, and documentaries, dedicated to creativity Tarkovsky and Plavinsky. A significant part of the materials of the Breakthrough into the Past project is exhibited for the first time. The project was implemented jointly with the Two Andrey Foundation within the framework of the XXXIX Moscow International Film Festival.
