Tonino Guerra is a famous Italian poet, artist, writer and screenwriter. The films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vittorio de Sica and the Taviani brothers were shot according to his scripts. Guerra composed fairy tales and poems, created designs for fountains, palaces of poetry, and aviaries, devoted himself to ceramics and sculpture, and was even president of the Marecchia River. Being “Russian” by his wife, Laura Guerre, he visited Suzdal many times. It was here that he discovered that “Russian sadness can be cut with a knife.” The Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery today has an exposition dedicated to his life and work.
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The festival will include screenings of films based on Guerra scripts and two exhibitions dedicated to Tonino. The project-intervention of the curator Nina Gomiashvili “The air is full of lost sounds” will be located in the Kremlin, the Posadsky House and the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery. Tonino’s personal belongings, flags with his poems translated by Bella Akhmadulina will be included in the permanent exhibition of the museum. The project “1+1=1” by Nastya Grigoryan and Anya Petrova at the “Mira Center” and other places will connect the Russian avant-garde, modern art objects and memories of the writer’s friends: Natalia Dabizh, Nina Popova, Valery Sirovsky. , Yuri Rost.
There will also be an audio performance in the courtyard of the “Centro Mir”. The production, created by Irina Mikheyshina and Marina Shibaeva, is full of music, sounds, thoughts, poems and feelings. This is an amazing “closet” – as soon as the viewer opens the door, for 24 minutes he will find himself in a poetic world inspired by Tonino’s work.
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The headliner of “Places for the Soul” will be Petr Nalich. 10 installations will appear in unexpected places, sometimes even hidden in the city. Kirill Lebedev (Who), Blue Pencil, Svetlana Rastebina, Misha Rubankov, Margo Trushina, Olga Bozhko, Vladimir Marin, Ulyana Podkorytova, Dmitry Barbanel’s Workshop will become participants in this project. To view their works, it will be possible to use a special card, during the days of the festival or after its completion: art objects will remain in their places, and viewers will be able to create new stories about the city with their help.
Direct speech
General Director of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve Ekaterina Pronicheva:
– The festival was born in collaboration with several people and organizations. It is both a tribute to a great man and a burning desire to develop and continue the creative process born from the synthesis of the arts, to show the world of culture in all its diversity. We plan for the festival to be held annually.