Photo exhibition "In memory of Cocteau." To the 130th anniversary of the birth of the Grand Master

Creative experimental workshop of Marianna Kornilova

In our workshop there is no one indifferent to the personality and unrestrained and limitless facets of the timeless talent of Jean Cocteau. Everything he touched became art in the highest degree of its manifestation.

Our exhibition is an expression of deep respect and gratitude to the Poet (only that was what Cocteau called himself). In many ways, we owe him an understanding of creative free-thinking, aesthetic perception, the search for new forms of any genre, and Inspiration.

Our photographic works, based on the films, plays, poems, and graphic images of Cocteau, are also due to the fact that the only genre of art that the Poet did not do was photography, which later became very indebted to the creative legacy “herald of new art” (c)

The exposition includes the author’s frame-by-frame cycle based on the film “Orpheus” by Anastasia Guseva, Anna Basova’s deep artistic photo-based motifs based on the film “Poet’s Blood”, Vlad Orlov’s photo illustration for the poem “Evening” by Cocteau, and a graphic photo compliment from Alexandra Sokolinskaya. In the archives of Marianna Kornilova many works dedicated to Cocteau, the exhibition presents four of the newest.

If you love Cocteau, as we love him, you will have something to discuss and argue about. If you like the work of our workshop, you will rediscover us for yourself, and we will open the door for you to Jean Cocteau’s World, which is much more multidimensional and entertaining than our exhibition. We are just a stepping stone to your new amazing acquaintances in the endless universe of Creation.

“Still, it remains eternal that collective creativity emerges as something integral, due to the monolithic combination of individual parts, guided by love for a common cause”

Jean Cocteau