Pavel Kaplevich
Born in the Black Sea port of Tuapse in 1953.
Russian artist, theatre and film producer. Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation. Graduated in 1980 from the acting faculty of the Nemirovich-Danchenko Studio-School attached to the Moscow Art Theatre.
Worked for a time as an actor at the Leningrad Young People’s Theatre. Began drawing at the age of 23. Has no specialist artistic education, but that did not prevent him exerting a considerable influence on theatrical life in Moscow at the turn of the 1990s and becoming one of the capital’s best-known production designers for several years.
The artist has a long history of collaboration with the directors Piotr Fomenko, Galina Volchek, Vladimir Mirzoyev, Oleg Menshikov and Nina Chusova. In 2007 Alexander Sokurov invited Kaplevich to work on his version of Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theatre. More than 900 costumes were created for that production using an innovative method of working with fabrics of his own devising. In 2014 he came up with the idea and the costumes for the production The Nutcracker. An Opera on the stage of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow.
Over the years, Kaplevich has had personal exhibitions at the Triumph Gallery and Olga Khlebnikova’s Gallery in the Central House of Artists in Moscow, and in the Saint Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. Works by the artist can be found in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum.
Russian artist, theatre and film producer. Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation. Graduated in 1980 from the acting faculty of the Nemirovich-Danchenko Studio-School attached to the Moscow Art Theatre.
Worked for a time as an actor at the Leningrad Young People’s Theatre. Began drawing at the age of 23. Has no specialist artistic education, but that did not prevent him exerting a considerable influence on theatrical life in Moscow at the turn of the 1990s and becoming one of the capital’s best-known production designers for several years.
The artist has a long history of collaboration with the directors Piotr Fomenko, Galina Volchek, Vladimir Mirzoyev, Oleg Menshikov and Nina Chusova. In 2007 Alexander Sokurov invited Kaplevich to work on his version of Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theatre. More than 900 costumes were created for that production using an innovative method of working with fabrics of his own devising. In 2014 he came up with the idea and the costumes for the production The Nutcracker. An Opera on the stage of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow.
Over the years, Kaplevich has had personal exhibitions at the Triumph Gallery and Olga Khlebnikova’s Gallery in the Central House of Artists in Moscow, and in the Saint Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. Works by the artist can be found in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum.
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