«Valery Levental. Stage and Painting»
18.11
«Valery Levental. Stage and Painting» exhibition is open at the A.A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum from October 10 as a part of the Second Theatrical Art Biennale. The exhibition presents theatrical works and paintings of the artist Valery Levental, one of the key figures of the Soviet and Russian theatre of the second half of the 20th century. The paintings will be featured for the first time with set designs, which Levental created for performances at the Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre and various theatres of Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.
The exhibition demonstrates the development and the renewal of the artist’s creative language and reveals the works of one of the leading stage designers of the second half of the 20th – early 21st century from little-known facts until now. A part of the artist’s works was brought from the United States, some works were selected from the Moscow workshop of Levental. The Bakhrushin Museum collection is represented by costumes created by the artist for Andrey Mironov /“The Marriage of Figaro” by Pluchek/ and Maya Plisetskaya / “The Lady with a Dog” by Shchedrin/.
About the artist:
Valery Yakovlevich Levental /17.08.1938 – 8.06.2015/ – theatrical artist, set designer, teacher, professor. In 1962, he graduated from the VGIK, and in 1963, he made his debut as a theatrical artist with designs for the performances at the Yermolova Theatre and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. Since 1965, Valery Levental has been the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre, in 1988-1995 – its main designer. Since 1979, he has worked at the Moscow Art Theatre, and after the theatre separation in 1987 – at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. He worked with such leading theatrical directors as V. Pluchek, A. Efros and O. Yefremov. Levental also worked in the theatres of Europe, Asia and America: in Italy he designed sets at La Scala, Communal Theatre, etc.; in Germany, he collaborated with famous German opera directors – Walter Felsenstein and Harry Kupfer.
