Kateryna Yushchenko Visits Serhiy Paradzhanov Exhibition at the National Arts Museum
26 February 2008 18:42
February 26, 2008, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko visited an exhibition of Sergey Paradzhanov Museum (Yerevan, Armenia) items at the National Arts Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv, 6 Hrushevsky St.).
Mrs. Kateryna took a tour of the exhibition, talked to its organizers and the museum management, and visited other rooms of the National Arts Museum.
The exhibition features 55 Paradzhanov’s works: collages, assemblages, drawings, and letters by the renowned film director and artist. The exhibition will continue till March 16, 2008. Its organizers are the Gabri Producing Center, National Arts Museum of Ukraine, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, and Sergey Paradzhanov Museum.
Sergey Paradzhanov is the author of masterpieces that brought him world fame: Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors, Pomegranate Flower, Legend of the Suram Fortress, Ashik-Kerib, etc. His poetic films had won over 60 prizes at numerous international festivals. Paradzhanov’s contribution into the cinema art is primarily his original poetic language highly appreciated by his contemporaries. His aesthetic system included also the plastic art based on the western and eastern art traditions.
The renowned film director was also an outstanding artist. Paradzhanov’s paintings show the artist’s reaction to life, his plastic vision of the world. Paradzhanov’s art has no direct analogies in the world and impresses one with its imaginative and artistic power. For the first time Paradzhanov’s works were on display in 1985 at the Tbilisi Cinema House. Since then, over 48 shows have been held throughout the world.
The Serhiy Paradzhanov Museum was created in Yerevan after an Armenia government’s decision and unveiled in 1991. Its collection embraces around 600 Paradzhanov’s works, furniture and personal things from his house in Tbilisi, moved to Yerevan in the artist’s lifetime and on his permission.
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