Ustinov: In 1975, I was with my father first came to Russia. While he was filming a documentary with the famous actress Natalie Wood, who had Russian roots (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. - "The News"). And then my father and I sang on stage at the Hermitage.
and: have had a Peter Ustinov impact on your creative destiny?
Ustinov: He has always preferred to keep a distance in regard to the profession of his children. Nevertheless, when he learned that I was in university doing biology at the art school - a sculpture, but also sing, he wrote a letter which I still have: "You must make a choice. It's too much for one person." In response, I reminded him that he was an actor, director, producer, singer, wrote for the theater ...
and: My father was probably a British or Russian?
Ustinov: He grew up in England, lived and performed in different countries around the world, but with the onset of old age is increasingly becoming a Russian. When he died in a Swiss clinic, said that he wants only halophytes. I found a man who knew how to cook. And in the last hours of his life his father spoke to me in Russian.
and: You were born in Britain, lived in Paris, and now moved to Switzerland.
Ustinov: For me, Switzerland is as if the three floors. Lower, at the level of lakes - are banks, lawyers, commerce. Upper - tourists. The average, which I prefer - rural, rather mystical. I live in Lausanne, and my studio is located in the village of Ryu.
and: I thought you stood at the origins of the Benois family museum, Peterhof?
Ustinov: Its creation, together with their cousins, I gave a lot of strength. Initially the USSR Ministry of Culture would like to open a museum of Alexander Benois and his son Nicholas (artist Nikolai Alexandrovich Benois (1901-1988) was artistic director of Milan's La Scala. - "The News"). But Nicholas said that in our family a lot of other great names and they are all descendants of the same master. This is Louis-Jules-César-Auguste Benoit. In 1794 he moved from France to Russia, married a nurse, and King had 18 children. In the end, persuaded Nicholas Russian Museum to create a family Benoit. Its opening in September 1988 was attended by descendants of Benoit from around the world. We were several hundred.
and: Three years later, you have created a sculpture of Benois de la Danse, "which became a ballet" Oscar ".
In addition to the talent necessary to feel some kind of mission, to defend certain values. In our family we strive to understand the meaning of human existence is inherited from generation to generation
Ustinov: In my work, there are some forms of dance and stage design. Kudryavtseva, Nina-Lurie (art director Benois de la Danse. "-" The News ") visited the Museum of the Benois family and saw my works. When the Bolshoi Theater was in Paris, she came into my shop and offered to create a sculpture. Since 20 years have passed, I was invited each year to Moscow for awarding the prize. And I always put a candle in a small Russian Orthodox Church near Red Square.
and: In addition to the museums where you can see your sculptures?
Ustinov: in Paris - on the stock exchange and in the restaurant Tayevan, as well as in Geneva, Lucerne, in the English city of Bath, which is included in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage.
and: What are your next projects?
Ustinov: As a sculptor, I'm pretty traditional and I love to model space. One of my projects is to create a luminous shade of the Eiffel Tower. Will be used searchlights and optics. And, of course, I would like to arrange your exhibition in Russia.
and: Where do you prefer to see his sculpture - on the street or in the gallery?
Ustinov: If your sculpture is on the street, you participate in public life, while visiting a gallery rather chosen audience.
and: Sculptures you call road signs of humanity, who escorted us to the road of life. Where these signs lead us?
Ustinov: road signs or kilometer posts remind us of who we are in the world, we have traversed the path.
and: Is it too much now appeared sculptures on the streets of different cities?
Ustinov: I do not think so. But each sculpture must find its place, so that it can "breathe" and express themselves. By the way, in China the issue of their accommodation is managed by the Ministry of Culture is not, and the agency that deals with urbanization. That it is responsible for finding a harmony between the product and the surrounding urban environment.
and: Now you can set any object and call it sculpture. For example, a trendy American Vito Acconci coined "Portable Wall Bra," which was shown even in Russia.
Ustinov: This phenomenon has arisen in the 1960's, the era of hippies. Then, many artists were marginalized, received large grants and created a terrible thing. It was like the fair, where showed a bearded woman or a man with two heads. And if such fairs have become a museum of modern art, where you can see what you will not see anywhere else.
and: Who is today dictates the fashion in art - galleries, curators, museums, collectors?
Ustinov: Galleries recruit artists. Media to unwind, and the whole mechanic is very well established. The tone of the market determine galereyschiki and museums of modern art. Now consider that to be able to draw - not necessarily, and do not seek to express beauty. For me it is an attempt on the sacred principles. In other words, the plinth of the monument has become more important sculptures.
and: It turns out that the battle for high art lost?
Ustinov: is not lost, but there are like two parallel worlds. I am sure that when people look, "a bearded woman," they want to come back to this art.
and: Your great ancestor, Alexander Benois, it seems almost the first used the word "vanguard". Condemning the "avant garde", he preferred the "vigorous and healthy realism."
Ustinov: He saw in the vanguard of the destruction of the sacred role of the arts. It is as if removed from the church of God ...
http://www.izvestia.ru/culture/article3150065/
02.01.2011, 06:59
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