Zurab Tsereteli, opened a museum at home

[SergeiSK]

An article in today's "The News":

In Moscow, opened the house-museum of Zurab Tsereteli. Fans of the wizard, wait for startup - is not a house-museum in the traditional sense, where people lived, worked and died, and the grateful descendants gathered his things, set out in the apartment, as it was, to show the curious. 75-year-old Zurab God grant him health, decided to facilitate the descendants of the work, is a museum of their own creativity in his Moscow home on the Grand Georgian, 15. The authors of the traditional headings of "Izvestia" "Access Code", which monitors the emergence of new kultmassovyh points on the map of the capital, could not pass.
To pass by without noticing, and the truth is difficult. Already on the distant approaches to the museum, the skeleton of an unfinished slonovnika (Zurab Tsereteli lives near the zoo) can be seen as an artist bursting with fertility.

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Creativity literally spills out onto the street, such as biomass in the old Soviet film "Through thorns to the stars". On the boulevard in front of the bronze statues of your favorite author's size crowd in the most free combinations. Sculptor Sergei Konenkov (the first, who praise its creation wizard) squeezed between St. George and the two sovereigns - on foot and horseback, Alexander II, Alexander III. The wife of the latter, Maria Feodorovna adjoins Vysotsky, Brodsky and Patriarch Nikon. Entrance gate guarded by two large women - Justice (with weights) and Silas (a lion) - the same that you have before the Senate Palace in the Kremlin. And just before the entrance to the museum gets a passerby in the company of five tall bronze men, thoughtfully examined some easel.
And this, as it turns out, does not take-Commission for the ministry's work, and dedication to master his great teachers. Thoughtful citizens in their jackets - Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Van Gogh (incidentally, the first two Zurab Tsereteli was personally acquainted, and they repeatedly praise). And studied their characters primitives paintings of the twentieth century Pirosmani and Rousseau. These two, in turn, and looking at something on the other side of the entrance. Just a historic campaign against illiteracy of some - and that we have not even entered the house.
Inside - three floors of unbridled orgy of color, mostly - painting and enamel.
- Zurab was born in Tbilisi, where a lot of light and color - explains art historian Elena Romanova. - He is a very valued sense of color. Perhaps, in Moscow, he lacks the sun, and he compensates for this with their creativity. And he himself as the sun, it has absolutely sunny nature.
Tbilisi and Paris, flowers, dogs, men and women. All works 2005-2009. A room on the third floor is occupied by a series of "August 2008-First" - then, during the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, Tsereteli refused to comment on the events and emotions poured out in a series of canvases at an alarming purple tones.
Outside the workshop gathered author's copies of sculptures (as defined and remain unclaimed). It turns out that happens and is - bought, the master does - and it all ends. Thus, in the courtyard can be found for two of the fountain failed to Disneyland in Mnevniki. I found a menagerie unclaimed - crocodile, rhino and other bronze animals. The gigantic, five meters in length, cylinder-like timber, candles are harvested for one of the variants of the monumental complex at Poklonnaya Hill. And hanging on the rear facade of the museum's plaster high relief - a figure Apostolic Prince Vladimir - is left over from the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior "working time". Here, in the yard, hung out in high relief full-size and real height to Commission, responsible for the decoration of the church, to gauge how they will look like. There is work that sees almost no one - for example, two panels ( "Kulikovo" and "The War of 1812"), commissioned in 1984 by the Ministry of Defense. They now hang in the General Staff building on Frunze Embankment, where just will not come in from the street.
"One should not consider exposure in the house-museum as something permanent and immutable, - said in a press release for the opening of the house-museum. - Tsereteli - a great experimenter, his imagination and ability to work knows no bounds."
"I can not sleep and rest. Work, work, work ... only creativity, - quote wizard, press secretaries. And he continues: - That is why an artist exhibition of works will inevitably change and supplemented. Following with interest. Moreover, the entrance to the house-museum is free.
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