Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center presents an exhibition "Hallways. Seven Worlds of Vysotsky". The exposition opens a series of exhibitions, which are dedicated to life and art of eminent personalities of Jewish origin.
Vladimir Vysotsky is a multifaceted, tragic and in many ways, controversial figure: intelligentsia’s idol and people’s favorite, popular poet, and musician, whose works were not published nor recordings were released; a Soviet movie star with a halo of a dissident.
Almost in every song, he addressed the audience in the first person, so several generations of people living in the USSR saw his songs as a poetic interpretation of their own biography. Actually, as Vysotsky himself put it, his songs were associations, not retrospections: he hadn’t been in the war or a prisoner in the Stalin’s camps, nor had he traveled the sea as a sailor. Vysotsky doesn’t tell the story of his own life but creates in the audience’s imagination live and bright poetic fantasy in a most expressive way.
The creators of the "Hallways" exhibition offer to an audience a radically new approach to life and art of Vladimir Vysotsky: a viewer gets an opportunity to plunge into a world of living images from poet’s works accompanied by his songs. The exposition is literally a consistency of hallways. Each exhibition room presents a still picture, focused on a specific area of Vysotsky’s artistic heritage. Entering one of the hallways, a visitor finds himself in a capital city communal apartment, dangerous Moscow alleyway, front-line trench or Soviet beer house.
The creative team is led by Yan Vizinberg, an author of an idea of the exhibition. The art director of an exposition is Andrey Pankratov (“Loveless”, “Leviathan”, “Elena” by A. Zvyagintsev, “Summer” by K. Serebrennikov). The lighting designer is a filmmaker Vladislav Opelyants (“Hostages”, “The Student”, “12”, “Summer”).
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The project is realized with support of Michael Gutseriev, businessman and founder of SAFMAR Charitable Foundation.