Conspiracy of «Not Alike». Marina Azizyan’s Personal Exhibition
03.02
December 1 the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum opens the doors to present the personal anniversary exhibition of Marina Azizyan. There will be represented sketches for an animated film, based on Dmitri Shostakovich’s «Nose» inspired by Nikolay Gogol’s novel, which unites different historical eras in a magical way. Visitors will be able to see «Nose» story’s characters, as well as portraits of Gogol, Shostakovich, Meyerhold, Bulgakov and even Stalin, Zhdanov and other members of the Politburo. The idea of the animated film belongs to the director, Andrei Khrzhanovsky: more than 40 years ago he received a permission from Shostakovich himself to create an animated film about his opera’s fate and invited Marina Azizyan to take part in the art process. The same artist’s exhibition has already been represented this year in the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatrical and Musical Art, and theatre artist, Alexander Borovsky, shared his impressions of Marina’s works: «Azizyan paints with great confidence the ordinariness as well as the metaphorical. Her «noses» are painted as naturally as the corners of quarterly overseers. She is not afraid of the surrealism, because she has understood its motivations. Very good, cultural drawing, with some kind of positive, respectful attachment to Gogol».
December 4, as a part of the Second Biennale of Theatre Art, a master class by Marina Azizyan will take place at the Theatre Museum. The artist will tell about the details of the artist’s work and recall her favorite works in the theatre. The master class is made for set design students, artists of a wide profile and everyone.
About the artist:
Marina Tsolakovna Azizyan / February 28, 1938, Leningrad / – artist, member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers, winner of the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, twice winner of the St. Petersburg Highest theatre Award «Golden Sofit». In 1959 she graduated from the theatre production faculty (class of Professor Nikolai Akimov) of the A. Ostrovsky Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. She made more than 25 films, like «Monologue» / 1974, director I. Averbakh /, «Old, Old Tale» / 1969, director N. Kosheverova /, «Drama from Old Life» / 1971, director I. Averbakh /, the first Soviet-American film «Blue Bird» / 1976, directed by George Cukor /. She designed about 100 performances, including «Swan Lake», staged by V. Vasilyev, and the opera «Bohemia» at the Bolshoi Theatre.
