Photo: Hermitage official website
Hermitage will design Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale, TASS reports. Director of the museum Mikhail Piotrovsky officially announced this for the first time. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (BDT) will also participate. According to Piotrovsky, this is not their first joint project.
Note, Venice Biennale is bi-annual international art exhibition. This year it will be the 58th in a row. Its theme is May You Live In Interesting Times. Biennale starts in spring and works all summer and almost all autumn in many sites of the ancient Italian city.
Russian Pavilion in Venice will be dedicated to the largest Russian museum, the Saint Petersburg Hermitage. It is planned to invite a famous director Alexander Sokurov, who had previously filmed a movie about the Hermitage.
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recalled that works of the artist and set designer from Saint Petersburg Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai will be presented. The exhibition of Russian pavilion at the largest forum of world art will include an installation on the Flemish School theme. According to the Commissioner of Russian exhibition pavilion Semen Mikhailovsky, the artist is working on the installation now. It consists of works with many layers and moving figures cut from plywood. Mikhailovsky added that it turns out a somewhat “crude, ironic thing”.
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