KATALOG (ke stažení) - Prague Quadrennial

visiteur une idée sur les principes fondamentaux de la scénographie
soviétique, sur Pextrěme diversité des idées plastiques et scéniques,
sur leur évolution et sur les courants qui ont émergé ces derniěres
années.
Comment ces nouveaux courants se manifestent également dans la scénographie
ďautres genres du drame, surtout du drame modeme, le visiteur
peut voir á une autre exposition qui a lieu simultanément á la
Maison de la Science et de la Culture soviétiques et que nous considérons
comme une seconde partie de la contribution soviétique á la Quadriennale
de Prague.
The Soviet exposition of 1987 at Prague Quadrennial is somewhat different
from those we showed at all the previous. Then we tried to present
the scale and diversity of Soviet scénographie research, show the rich
work of individual designers working in various cities and republics
of the country. Now the exposition is wholly devoted to one subject
called „Our Chekhov". There are only eight scenographers: Sergey
Barkhin, David Borovsky, Alexander Vasiliev, Mart Kitayev, Edward
Kochergin, Valery Levental, Daniil Leder and Vladimir Serebrovsky.
They are all distinguished masters of the Soviet theatre, and each has
Chekhov productions to his credit. For them Chekhov is a living classic
with whom a dialogue always reveals to the artist something very
substantial and very important about life past and present, about the
human soul, the times and about oneself. That being so, in choosing this
structure for the exposition, we not only tried to meet the topič suggested
by the Prague Quadrennial organizers (Chekhov productions) in the
best possible way, but hoped that this time too, sketches and models
for Chekhov productions would give the spectator some idea about the
fundamental principles underlying Soviet scenography and the wide
diversity of plastic and scenic ideas, and their évolution in time, and
the trends that have emerged in recent years.
How the samé new trends reveal themselves in scenography based on
another kind of drama, especially modern drama, can be seen at
another exposition of ours. It is on display at the House of Soviet Culture
and Science, and we regard it as a second (inseparable from
Chekhov's) part of the Soviet contribution to the Prague Quadrennial
1987.
Viktor Berjozkin
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