"The artist is making a film." Yarbusova and Norshtein. Exhibition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Yuri Norshtein in Altmans Gallery

The anniversary exhibition of Yuri Norshtein, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the artist, will be held in the Altmans Gallery from September 15 to October 9, 2016. With the light hand of the artist, the exhibition was called “The artist draws a film. Yarbusova and Norshteyn. "

The exposition includes works from the cycle devoted to the animated films “Hedgehog in the Fog”, “Tale of Tales”, “Heron and Crane”, “Overcoat”. Visitors to the exhibition will learn how their favorite characters appeared: Hedgehog, Bear, Horse, Top and others. During the exhibition, you can see working sketches and storyboards for films. Over the course of the month, the Altmans Gallery will display sketches and layouts that recreate the beloved and so familiar shots of Hedgehog in the Fog. In addition, those who wish will be able to purchase the author’s giclee with the signature of the artist, as well as the book “Hedgehog in the Fog” with sketches by Yuri Norshtein and, of course, his famous book “Snow on the Grass”.

Films of Yuri Norsheyn were awarded numerous international prizes. In 1984, in Los Angeles (USA), the film "Tale of Tales" was recognized as the best film of all time. In 2003, in Tokyo (Japan), the film "Hedgehog in the Fog" was recognized as the best film of all time, the second named cartoon "Tale of Tales."

“Could he have achieved what had been created if not for Francesca Yarbusova, the artist of his films, his wife, his friend, to be with him?” She is not only a full co-author: Yura and Francesca are simply inseparable in creativity, as in life. Yarbusova knows and knows what is not given even to the generously gifted Norshtein. Her artistic gift is marked by the sensual integrity of worldview, which nature rewards only wise and kind women. Yuri Borisovich admits: ″ Frania is a fairy, a sorceress ″. Where magic is, critical analysis is useless: a miracle must simply be recognized. And make sure from the results that the magic of Yarbusova and Norshtein is deeply connected with the animation of not only the drawn, but also the real world, ”said film critic Naum Kleiman.

For children, The Heron and Crane is a fairy tale about punished stubborn people, for adults, the Chekhov drama of pride and loneliness. Children perceive the Hedgehog in the Fog as the story of saving a small and weak creature by someone whom the Hedgehog did not even see. Our sophisticated viewers see in Hedgehog an ideal portrait of the “sixties” and revise the film as a socio-psychological parable about the Soviet intelligentsia with its fears, illusions and hopes. American professors spoke of him as a classically clear manifestation of Russian idealism. And Japanese students asked how Moscow animators managed to find a cinematic embodiment of the philosophy of Taoism.

In “The Tale of Tales” - in the very fabric of the film, in its spectacular drama - the inseparable memories of the military childhood in Maryina Roshcha and fairy miracles, genuine triangles of soldiers’ letters from the front and Serenky Volchok from the folk lullaby, naive sensuality of the pre-war gramophone tango and contemplative chamber wisdom Bach, photophases of the present

water, a tear flowing down from a tree leaf into a memorial faceted glass with vodka, and an imaginary Eternity, in which, in turn, ancient mythological motifs are intertwined - with details from our present time, the chest of the Michelangelian Night - with images of Picasso, sketches of the everyday life of the Rybak family - with affectionately ironic variations of the images of the Inspirational Poet, the Mild Bull, the Melancholy Bastard Cat, the Immortal Fish…

And for all that - even the slightest sign of eclecticism! Everything is permeated with a single spirit and melted into a holistic world of a film-ball that freely rotates in front of the viewer according to the fanciful laws of memory and imagination of the Author…

Biography of Yuri Norshtein

Director animator, screenwriter, artist Yuri Borisovich Norshtein was born on September 15, 1941 in the village of Andreevka in the Penza region. In 1961-1989 he worked at the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio. From 1961 to 1973 he was a cartoonist on more than 50 films. Among them are “Lefty” (director Ivan Ivano Vano), “Vacation Boniface” (director Fedor Khitruk), “Mittens”, “Cheburashka” (director Roman Kachanov), a series of films based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin (director Andrei Khrzhanovsky).

From 1973 to 1989, Yuri Norshtein worked at the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio as a director of animated films. Here he shot such cartoons as “25th - the first day”, “Slaughter at Kerzhenets”, “Fox and the Hare”, “Heron and the Crane”, “Hedgehog in the Fog”, “Tale of Tales”, “The Overcoat” )not finished), as well as “Russian Sugar” - four commercials, a screen saver for the TV program “Good Night, Kids” and the episode “Crazy Poems” by Hoku Base in the Japanese series “Winter Days” (Japan).

In 1979-1996, Norshtein taught at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors (Department of Animated Film Filmmakers). From 1990 to 2006, he worked at the Roland Bykov Foundation, where he organized the Artel animation studio. In 1993, Yuri Norshtein (together with Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Fedor Khitruk and Eduard Nazarov) organized the school "SHAR" studio, where he taught until 1998. In 2000, he founded the Yuri Norshtein Foundation, into which the Artel studio was legally transferred. Over the years, he lectured at VGIK. He is an Honorary Professor at VGIK, an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA (2005). Yuri Norshtein gave master classes in many countries of the world.

Norshtein’s exhibitions were held in the Perm Gallery, the Museum of Cinema in Moscow, the City Hall of Paris (Hotel de Ville), the Djiburi Museum in Tokyo, and the personal collections department of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin.

Yuri 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), awarded the medal of the International Union of Journalists "For Contribution to the Development of Animation and Films for Children and Young People" (1989).

In 2010, Norshtein became one of the founders of KinoSoyuz.

Additional Information

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. In particular, on one of the most promising segments of the international art market - the circulation schedule, 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 artists in a price range unusual for the Russian market from 1,000 to 40,000 US dollars.

Today, the gallery exhibits the works of great masters: Henri Matisse and Salvador Dali. For the first time in the Altmans Gallery, prints of Joan Miro, as well as ceramics by Pablo Picasso, were exhibited. 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 biblical series, antique plots, works dedicated to Paris, Vitebsk and the artist’s childhood memories.