Director Yuri Norshtein will present the book “Snow on the Grass” as part of his anniversary exhibition at Altmans Gallery

September 23, 2016 as part of the exhibition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the director Yuri Norshtein “The artist draws a film. Yarbusova and Norshtein ”in the Altmans Gallery the first names gallery will host the presentation of the artist’s long-awaited book“ Snow on the Grass ”. The book was composed of lectures delivered by Yuri Norshtein during training sessions in Tokyo in the fall of 1994, as well as lectures given by the author at different times in Moscow at the Higher Director’s Courses.

Throughout Friday night, the artist will sign books with the famous fairy tales “Hedgehog in the Fog”, “Fox and the Hare” to all comers and guests of the exhibition.

Exhibition “The artist draws a film. Yarbusova and Norshteyn "opened in the Altmans Gallery on September 15. The exhibition includes works from the cycle devoted to the animated films “Hedgehog in the Fog”, “Tale of Tales”, “Heron and Crane”, “Overcoat”. During the exhibition, you can see working sketches and storyboards for films. Over the course of the month, the Altmans Gallery will feature sketches and layouts that recreate the beloved and familiar frames of cult films. In addition, during the exhibition, guests can purchase author’s giclee with the signature of the artist, souvenirs, as well as the books “Hedgehog in the Fog”, “Fox and the Hare” with the artist’s sketches, as well as the famous book by Yuri Norshtein “Snow on the Grass”.

The partner of the event is Otkritie Bank. Cooperation between the Bank and Yuri Norshtein began many years ago as part of a large-scale project with the Vera Hospice Assistance Fund. Starting in 2012, you can make a donation at the bank’s branches and receive a notebook, a mug, a cover for a passport, a cover for I-Pad with a picture of a Hedgehog. All funds, including cash-back from credit cards with a Hedgehog, are transferred to the Vera fund - the only fund in Russia that helps hospices and their patients.

Curriculum Vitae:

Director-animator, screenwriter, artist Yuri Borisovich Norshtein - People’s Artist of the Russian Federation (1996), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1979), Prize named after A. Tarkovsky "For the author’s contribution to the development of art" (1989), the Prize "Triumph" (1995), Prize. V. Starevich (1997), V. Vysotsky’s Prize “Own Track” (2000), “Master” Prize for an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. A. Pushkin (2005), is a holder of the Order of the Arts and Literature of France (1991), the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun (2004), and was awarded the Medal of the International Union of Journalists "For Contribution to the Development of Animation and Films for Children and Youth" (1989).

Films of Yuri Norshtein awarded numerous international prizes. In 1984, in Los Angeles (USA), the film "Tale of Tales" was recognized as the best film of all time, and in June 2002 the Zagreb Animation Festival published the results of the international four-year survey of film critics: "The Best Animated Film of All Time" Tale of Tales. In 2003, in Tokyo (Japan), the film “Hedgehog in the Fog” was recognized as the best film of all time, the second named the film “Tale of Tales”.

Exhibitions of Yuri Norshtein together with Francesca Yarbusova previously took place in the Perm Gallery, Cinema Museum and the Museum of the East in Moscow, in the City Hall of Paris (Hotel de Ville, John the Baptist Hall), in the Djiburi Museum and Chihiro Museum in Tokyo, in various prefectures in Japan, in the department personal collections of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin and others.

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Altmans Gallery opened its doors in November 2015 at Novinsky Passage. Despite the constantly growing demand, Altmans Gallery is still the only commercial gallery in Moscow that specializes in the circulation art of the first names. Circulation graphics is one of the most promising segments of the international art market, which, according to some estimates, already occupies more than 21% in the sales structure of the western auction market. The gallery presents genuine works by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami, Fernand Leger and other great masters in an unusual price range from $ 1,000 to $ 40,000 for the Russian market.

Today, the gallery displays the work of Henri Matisse and Salvador Dali. For the first time in the Altmans Gallery will be exhibited prints of Joan Miro, as well as ceramics by Pablo Picasso. Also, the updated exposition retained a number of works by Marc Chagall, presented earlier in the exhibition of prints by the artist “My Life” - graphics from the famous “Bible Series”, antique plots, works dedicated to Paris, Vitebsk and the master’s childhood memories.