Exhibition



Exhibition "Yuri Cooper. Illustrations to the tragedy of A.S. Pushkin "Mozart and Salieri"

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On March 2, 2018 the exhibition “Yuri Cooper. Illustrations to the tragedy of A.S. Pushkin “Mozart and Salieri” from the funds of the Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.I. Kramskoy opened in the Belgorod State Literary Museum. Belgorod became the first city in which the exhibition went after exhibiting in the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after. I.N. Kramskoy.

A mobile exhibition project implemented as part of a grant from the Government of the Voronezh Region to create creatively meaningful projects in the field of culture and art is a link in the artist’s many years of creative cooperation with the city.

The basis of the exposition is one of fifty copies of the unique work of the artist’s book (from the Kramskoye College of Artists), created by one of the most famous contemporary Russian-American artists, Yuri Cooper.

The main motif of 17 illustrations of the artist’s book (computer copies made in the size of the originals) is the artist’s memories of the Mikhailovskoye Museum-Reserve, where Pushkin worked on “Little Tragedies”. The illustrations not only acquaint with the intricacies of the relations of two eminent musicians of the second half of the XVIII century, but also immerse in the atmosphere of time in which the great Russian poet lived and wrote. This is embodied by the artist in an exquisite figure of the finest lace, dried flowers, apples, goose feathers. They as personal things – witnesses of the vanished moments of the life of the heroes and the author of the work.

The exhibition was opened with a lecture by the head of the sector on advertising and information work of the VOKHM named after M.Sh. I.N. Kramskoy IS Shuvakina. Particular attention in the lecture was given to the topic “Yuri Cooper and Voronezh.” Participants of the lecture and the first visitors of the exhibition were students of the Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture, specialists of state cultural institutions.

In Belgorod, the exhibition will last until May 27, 2018.