Exhibition "Tatyana and Sergey Barkhiny. 160 years"

East Facade Hall
Luzhnetsk Hall

April 1 in the main building of the Theater Museum. A. A. Bakhrushin opened the anniversary exhibition "Tatyana and Sergey Barkhiny. 160 years ”, including book graphics, sketches of sets and costumes, layouts, comic sketches, sketches for unrealized productions. Time coverage - from the early period of creativity to the present.

160 years - one anniversary for two. Tatyana and Sergey Barkhin were born on March 31, 1938 with a one minute difference, studied together at the Moscow Architectural Institute, then realized themselves in various fields - architecture, paper architecture, book illustration, literature, painting and, of course, theater. Today Sergey Barkhin is one of the main luminaries of the theater scene. His works are called not scenery, but the "spaces" of Barkhin. Tatyana Barkhina designed many performances with her brother as a costume designer.

During his life, Sergey Barkhin collaborated with a large number of theaters and directors. The first productions were in Sovremennik, then there was the Maly Theater, the theater of the Soviet Army, the Moscow Art Theater, the Maly Theater and many others. In the early period of his work, Barkhin worked a lot in different cities of Russia, in this regard, even jokingly called himself a "long-distance" artist.

In the 80s, the artist’s collaboration with K. Ginkas and G. Yanovskaya began and did not stop, resulting in performances at the Moscow Art Theater and other theater venues in Russia and Europe. From the 80s to 2000s, Sergey Barkhin was the chief artist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theater, and the Bolshoi Theater. At the Bolshoi, Sergei and Tatyana Barkhin together issued Aida, Nabucco, Francesca da Rimini, Mozart and Salieri, Pskovityanka, and Insomnia.

The exhibition presents materials for the performances of Russian and foreign theaters. Visitors can see many of the early works, including those made for Sovremennik. This is “The Story of the“ Unlucky Zucchini ”of 1967, drawn up jointly with M. Anikst, and became significant for the theater and for its time. Another, already completely independent work - “The Seagull” (staged by O. Efremov) was ambiguously accepted after the premiere. Then they said: this is "not Chekhov", as well as about later works: "this is not Shakespeare." Barkhin did not give explicit identification marks immediately indicating the name of the author of the play, and never considered it necessary to do this - as they wrote later, he was ahead of his time, combining different things, did not fit into any flow, created his own spaces, playing with styles and images of world culture. Also at the exhibition you can see sketches for another famous play by Sovremennik, but later - “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” in 1992, staged by R. Balayan and V. Fokin.

Barkhin worked with many directors - visitors will see models for the performances of M. Karbauskis (“Kant”, “Talents and Fans”), materials for “Tattooed Rose” by R. Viktyuk, “Forest” by A. Shapiro and many others, works for musical theater. Joint work with K. Ginkas and G. Yanovskaya is widely represented: “Idiot”, “Black Monk”, “Medea”, “Gedda Gubler”, “Lady with a Dog”, “Ivanov and Others”, “Do not Part with Your Loved Ones,” "Nightingale".

Family portraits of the merchants-patrons of the Khludovs, maternal ancestors of the Barkhin will also be exhibited. Family publishing house “Gemini” published books on the history of the family - “Chronicle of Five Generations” by Elena Borisovna Novikova and letters and diaries of Gerasim Ivanovich Khludov.