"KLINXV. SCHOOLS" - an exhibition of young theater artists from the Museum of Moscow and STD RF Automatic translate

The Museum of Moscow and the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation present an exhibition of young theater artists “KLINXV. SCHOOLS".

On December 1, the Commission for Scenography of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, together with the Museum of Moscow, will open the exhibition KLINXV. SCHOOLS". The exposition will feature about two hundred works of students and graduates of the largest theater and art educational institutions.

"KLINXV. SCHOOLS” is the fifteenth exhibition of young theater artists, first initiated in 2001 by the youth team of the STD RF scenography commission. In the title of each project, one can traditionally see not only a serial number, but also the theme of the exposition. The first exhibition was held under the slogan "Theatrical artist - artist of space", this year it will be devoted to the theme of the school. Visitors will be able to see what the profession of stage designer and costume designer is like both at the apprenticeship stage and in the process of working in the theater.

To the two fundamental scenographic academies - the Russian Institute of Theater Arts and the Studio School at the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov - joined the design department of the Higher School of Economics, the British Higher School of Design, the theater and scenery department of the Moscow State Art Institute named after. V. I. Surikova, Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, College of Musical and Theater Arts. G. P. Vishnevskaya, Higher School of Performing Arts.

The exhibition at the Museum of Moscow will present the works of students and graduates of the workshops of artists, designers and set designers Vladimir Arefiev, Polina Bakhtina and Galina Solodovnikova, Emma Vasilyeva, Irina Vostrikova and Regina Khomskaya, Emilia Hertz, Anastasia Glebova and Stanislav Morozov, Varvara Lotova, Nikolai Simonov, Victoria Sevryukova, Ekaterina Ustinova, Stepan Lukyanov, Anastasia Nefedova, Valery Polunovsky, Dmitry Cherbadzhi.

In layouts and sketches of scenery and costumes, the authors refer to the literary works of Shakespeare, Andersen, Maeterlinck, Carroll, Gogol, Gumilyov, Olesha, Bulgakov and other writers. For example, Olesya Vashchenko’s stage design based on Pushkin’s The Stone Guest was based on the baroque theater of the 16th century, which she combined with the symbolic graphics of prison tattoos, the playful lightness of the comedy of masks, and the color of early Hollywood scenery. Yulia Yukhnovets dressed the characters of Ostrovsky’s "Thunderstorm" in gray, and made a cracked concrete wall as a symbol of the rough and bone life of the locals, as if in a bunker, the main decoration against which the whole action takes place. Polina Horikhina tried to present the opera Faust by Charles Gounod in the context of modern life, transferring the action to a movie theater where the actors are filming a film about a medieval scientist-philosopher.

The project was implemented with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.