David Borovsky. Selected works.

David Borovsky was first mentioned in a theatre bill in 1956.  It was a play “Lies with Long Legs” (Lozh na dlinnykh nogakh) by Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theatre. Shortly after this the young artist was invited to Moscow. Boris Lvov-Anokhin offered David Borovsky a post of an art director in the Stanislavsky Theater, several years later he became an art director of the Taganka Theatre. Those were 30 year of collaboration with Yuri Lyubimov. Borovsky and Lyubimov created 20 plays that became classics: “Alive”, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet …”, “Hamlet”, “the House on the Embankment”, etc. Over the last years of his artistic career Borovsky collaborated with such theatre directors as Lev Dodin and Adolf Shapiro and took part in the preparation of operatic performances. After Borovsky’s death the A.A.Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum and Alexander Borovsky, David Borovsky’s son, turned his workroom into a memorial museum “David Borovsky workroom”.

The exhibition that will be presented at Platonov Arts Festival in Voronezh in collaboration with the A.A.Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, taking into account that it is a large-scale exhibition, it is unique! For the first time the display area will include such a great number of exhibit items from David Borovsky’s artistic career: sketches for costumes and 14 scale models for plays. “David Borovsky. Selected Works. On the 80th anniversary of his birth” encompasses 5 exhibitions (“Selected Works”, “The Beginning”, “Borovsky in the opera”, “King Lear” and “The Golden Age of Taganka Theatre”) which were displayed in Borovsky’s workroom at different times.

“The Beginning” includes scale models and sketches of the first plays by the theatre set designer in Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theatre in Kiev (Borovsky called this theatre “my homeland”). “Selected Works” is the outcome of his artistic career, the last exposition that was displayed while Borovsky was still alive; the scales models for this exhibition were chosen by Borovsky himself. “King Lear” is dedicated to the play of the same name by the famous director Lev Dodin in The Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe (2006). “Borovsky in the opera” is dedicated to the musical performances by Borovsky as the set designer. “The Golden Age of Taganka Theatre” is dedicated the plays created in collaboration with Yuri Lyubimov (“Hamlet” with Vladimir Vysotsky in a lead role, “Alive” based on the novella by Boris Mozhayev and “Sharashka” based on the novel “In the First Circle” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). There also will be a book by D. Borovsky “The Runaway Space” at the exhibition.