Sergei Parajanov
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December 11 - 19, 2008.
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Sergei Parajanov (January 9,1924 — July 20,1990) was a Soviet-Armenian film director. He invented his own unparalleled cinematic style having taken inspiration from early works of Andrei Tarkovsky and Pier Paolo Pasolini. His oeuvre is extremely poetic, artistic and visionary and is acclaimed worldwide. But as it was highly unfit with principal rules of socialist realism (the only sanctioned art style in USSR) and his controversial stance and escapades to boot, cinema authorities regularly denied him permission to make films.
Allthough he started professional film-making in 1954. After directing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (renamed Wild Horses of Fire for most foreign distributions) Parajanov had become something of an international celebrity and simultaneously a target for Soviet oppression system. Nearly all of his film projects and plans from 1965-1973 got banned, scrapped or closed by film administration, both local (in Kiev and Yerevan) and federal (infamous Goskino), almost without discussion until he was finally arrested in late 1973. He was imprisoned until 1977, despite plethora of pleas for pardon from various esteemed artists.
Even after release (he was yet to be arrested for the third and last time in 1982) he was persona non grata in Soviet cinema.
While incarcerated Parajanov produced a large number of miniature doll-like sculptures (some of which were lost) and some 800 drawings and collages, many of which were later displayed in Yerevan. The museum opened in 1991, a year after Parajanov's death, and hosts more than 200 works as well as furnishings from his home in Tbilisi.
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www.foreignartmuseum.bg ; www.foreignartgallery.org
