Dedicated to Marina. David Borovsky’s drawings

The exhibition «Dedicated to Marina. David Borovsky’s Drawings» is open from 16 March to 25 June, 2017, at the Memorial Museum «Theatre Designer David Borovsky’s Studio».

The studio of David Borovsky – theatre designer, co-author of great performances by Yuri Lyubimov, Lev Dodin and other prominent directors who changed the idea of scenography – became the department of the A.A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum five years ago, in 2012. It was made thanks to creative energy of his wife, Marina I. Borovskaya /1937 – 2012/. Her dream was not only to perpetuate the memory of her outstanding husband, but also to make the studio museum into an educational centre for stage designers. For this purpose, David Borovsky has collected a remarkable library on the history of scenography and many exhibitions introducing the works of artists of different generations have been held there. Despite the fact that the studio is short of space to implement all the plans, the first museum of the theatre designer in Russia exists, releases scientific publications and has already held 11 exhibitions. Dreams of Mariya Borovskaya come true.

This spring, Marina Borovskaya would have turned 80. She was a wife, a muse and a good friend of David Borovsky. Her input, imperceptible at first sight, exists in all the works of the theatre designer. David Borovsky even called Marina a co-author of the production «Hamlet». The famous curtain – a main character of Lyubimov’s performance – needed not only to think out as an image, but also to make, tie so that he kept the form, and this is already the merit of Marina.

At different times David has drawn Marina, but these drawings are unknown except the family. Alexander Borovsky decided to show these works of his father for the first time at the studio museum.