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Sergei ParaDjanov Museum

Dzoragiugh Ethnographic Center, Blds 15&16 Yerevan

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Sergey Paradjanov was the author of several film-masterpieces which brought him world praise: "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1964), "The Colour of Pomegranates" or "Sayat-Nova" (1969), "The Legend of Suram Fortress" (1985) and "Ashik-Kerib" (1988). Parajanov’s contribution to the art of cinema is first and foremost his original poetic film-language, highly valued by his contemporaries. His aesthetic system also includes plastic art, based on traditions of Armenian, Eastern and European art.

The museum of S. Parajanov was founded by resolution of the government in 1988, after the first exhibition of his Artworks at the State Museum of Armenian Folk Art. At that time appropriate premises consisting of two buildings (one for the museum and the other for home of S. Parajanov) were allocated in the Ethnographic Center “Dzoragiugh”. However construction was delayed due to the earthquake of 1988 and the museum was opened in 1991.

The basis of the museum collection constitute 600 works of Parajanov - assemblages, flat and three-dimensional collages, drawings, dolls and film sketches, furniture, own things, which were transformed from Tbilisi to Yerevan during his lifetime.
In the course of years of its existence the museum storage has been replenished and today the number of subjects is 1500 units.
The museum also houses Parajanov's personal be longings and presents from his friends. An extensive correspondence of the film-director, including letters from L. Brik, A. Tarkovsky, J. Nikulin, V. Katanyan and other cultural figures is also kept in the museum’s archives.
Two memorial rooms are also re-created.

Parajanov’s works - assemblages, flat and three-dimensional collages, drawings, dolls and film sketches are his distinctive reaction to life and events around him, his aesthetic perception of the world.
His drawings and collages created in prison are exhibited in separate hall.
The Artist’s work has no direct analogies in the world art and amazes with its fantasy, wit and artistry. The use of various materials and objects imparts to it a special charm and brilliance.

The Soviet system suspended Parajanov from shooting films for almost 15 years, 5 of which (1973-1977 and 1982) were spent in prisons and “camps of severe regime.”
In the course of 27 years of its existence the museum has organised 64 exhibitions more than 30 countries - Cannes, Athens, Tokyo, Moscow, Kiev, Boston, Rome, London, Tehran, Peking, Paris, Sofia, Brazil, Canada, Vilnius, and other cities.

Parajanov Museum is one of the most popular museums in Yerevan.
It is open seven days a week from 10.30 a.m. till 5.00 p.m.

Sergey Paradjanov

Was born on January 9, 1924 in Tbilisi where he finished secondary school. In 1945 he entered the directing program at the VGIK (State Institute of Cinematography) under Igor Savchenko. In 1952 he started to work at the Alexander Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kiev as a film-director.

Before 1963 he directed four non-remarkable full-length feature and three short documentary films. In 1964 his «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors» («Wild Horses of Fire»), brought him world fame. Paradoxically, his problems started just from this movie.

In 1965 he began his work over an anti-war film “Kiev Frescos», which was soon banned.

In 1966 Parajanov was invited to Armenia where he started his work on «Sayat-Nova». With great difficulties this film was released on a screen in 1969 under the title «The Colour of Pomegranates».

It is considered to be his best work after which he was deprived of possibility of making movies for 15 long years.

There was a huge gap between a poetic cinema, a brilliant representative of which Parajanov was, and especially Parajanov’s cinema-language and the official Soviet Art.

Parajanov was arrested twice because of false accusation in Ukraine (1974-1978) and Tbilisi (1982).

These years his talent of brilliant Artist became apparent. He whould say : «I was not allowed to make movies and I started to make collages. Collage is a compressed film».

Museum of S. Parajanov houses for about thousand works: collages, drawings, assemblages, dolls.

By the end of his life he made another two films at the «Georgia-film» studio: «The Legend of Suram Fortress» and «Ashik-Kerib».

Sergei Parajanov died in 1990 in Yerevan where his museum was opened in 1991.

In prison, not having a pencil and a paper, Parajanov squeezed these reliefs on the aluminum bottle by nail and named 'thalers' (old European coins). A silver copy of one of the coins is considered to be a prize during Yerevan International Film Festival 'Golden Apricot'.

Films

Exibitions

EXHIBITIONS
PHOTO EXHIBITIONS

LIST OF PHOTOEXHIBITIONS «S. PARAJANOV’S WORLD»

year	city	Event	Event location
2001	Strasbourg (France)	Session CE	European Union Lobby, 1-t floor
2007	Uherske Hrdiste (Czech Republic)	Film festival «Summer film-school»	«Redouta» Hall
2007	Minsk (Belarus)	Days of Armenian Culture	Nature and Ecology Museum
2008	Pennabilly (Italy)	Tonino Guerra 88-th anniversary	«Vittoria» Theater
2008	Wiesbaden (Germany)	«GoEast» film festival	Festival’s Press Center
2008	Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy)	Armenian Architecture, landscape & «The World of S. Parajanov»	Private Gallery
2008	Riga, Latvia	Film-festival «Arsenal»	«Riga» Cinema
2009	Akhalkalaki (Georgia)	In the frames of «Golden Abricote» film-festival	The House of Culture
2009	St. Petersburg (Russia)	«Open Cinema» International film-festival	Engineer House of the Peter and Paul fortress
2009	Douarnenez (France)	Festival de cinema	Galerie «Miettes De Baleine»
2009	Slovakia Bratislava	Days of Armenian Culture
2010	Ljubljana (Slovenia)	Days of Armenian Culture «S. Parajanov's Light»	Cankarev Dom
2012	Busan (Korea)	Busan International Film Festival	Cinema Center
2014	Shushi (Nagorno - Karabakh)		The center art of Shushi
2014	Batumi (Georgia)	Batumi International Film festival
2015	Paris (France)		Pompidou center
2018	Sofi (Bulgaria)	Sofia International Film Festival	The house of film
2018	Kapan (Armenia)		The Art College of Kapan

The List of Exhibitions of Sergei Paradjanov’s Works

Year	City	Exhibition	Gallery or Museum
1990	Munich	From Eisenstein to Tarkovsky	Lenbach House
1991	Kirovakan	Exhibition of S. Parajanov works	Art Gallery
1991	Kiev	S. Parajanov Memory’s Evening	Cinema House
1991	Riga	Parajanov’s Days	Artiste Club
1991	Vienne	From Eisenstein to Tarkovsky	Kunstler House
1991	Cannes	Parajanov Exhibition	Miramare
1992	Lodz	Parajanov Retrospective	Cinema Museum
1992	Kiev	City Day	Culture Fond
1992	Ekaterinburg	Parajanov Festival	Cinema House
1992	St.Peterburg	Parajanov Plante	Cinema House
1992	Renne /France/	Documentary Film Festival	National Theater of Bretagne
1993	Moscow	Parajanov Exhibition	Photo Center
1993	Ekaterinburg	Concert of Terterian	Regional Philarmony
1993	Vienne	Week of Armenian Cinema	Kynstler House
1994	Tokyo	Week of Armenian Cinema	"Nichijazaboun" Gallery
1994	Teheran	International Film Festival	Cinema House
1994	Sevastopole	Festival «Kerson Games»	Krachinski Museum
1994	Kiev	Parajanov Exhibition	United Artists Gallery
1994	Thessaloniki	35-th International Film Festival	Cultural Center "Milo"
1994/ 1995	Bochum	Exhibition of Armenian Culture	Kemnade House
1994/ 1995	Moscow	Exhibition	Gallery
1995	Gyumri	Exhibition	Ethnographic Museum
1995	Rome	Pasolini Festival	Exhibition Hall
1997	Pekin	Days of Armenian Culture	Exhibition Hall
1997	Kiev	Paradjanov Exhibition	Kavaleridze Museum
1997	Budapest	Autumn festival	Armenian Culture Center
1999	London	Two Exhibitions of Sergey Parajanov	Leighton House Museum & Judith Clark Costume Gallery
1999	Moscow	Exhibition	“Roland” Cinema
1999	Boston	Exhibition	ALMA
2000	Tbilisi	Exhibition	Museum of Georgian Arts
2000	Beirut	Exhibition	Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum
2000	Riga	Arsenal Festival	Museum of Applied arts of Latvia
2001	Valence	Parajanov plasticien	Le Crac
2001	Athens	Exhibition	Melina
2001	Moscow	Days of Armenian Culture in Russian Federation	Central Artist House
2002	Kazan	Exhibition	Municipal museum
2002	Nicosia	S.Parajanov: Selected works	Levantis museum
2003	Moscow	International film festival	Manеge
2003	Kilkenny (Ireland)	Arts festival	Butler house
2003	Los-Angeles	Celebration: after life	Hollywood Entertainment museum
2004	Damask	Days of Armenian Culture	The Art Museum of Damask
2004	Teheran	Exhibition	Cultural Center "Niavaran"
2005	Saint Petersburg	Exhibition	Russian Ethnographic Museum
2005	Montreal	Exhibition	Le Musee des Maitres et Artisans
2006	Wroclaw	Exhibition	Museum of Architecture
2007	Toulouse	Annee Armenienne	Cinematheque
2007	Paris	Parajanov le Magnifique	Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts
2007	Paris /Bobigny/	Annee Armenienne	Cinema Magique
2007	Saint Etienne	Parajanov le Magnifique	Musee d’Art Moderne
2007	Marseille	Parajanov le Magnifique	Musee de la Mode
2007	Venice	Parajanov Il Magnifico	Collegio Armeno Moorat Raphael – Palazzo Zenobio
2007	Rome	Parajanov Il Magnifico	Castle of St. Angel
2008	Kiev	Exhibition of S. Parajanov works	National Ukrainien Museum of Art
2008	Sofia	Exhibition of S. Parajanov works	National Gallery of Foreign Art
2009	Magnitogorsk	S. Parajanov’s World	Magnitogorsk Art Gallery
2011	Novi Sad /Serbia/	Parajanov’s Kaleidoscope	Museum of Modern Art Vojvodino
2011	San Paulo	Parajanov-The Magnific	Museum of Image and Sound
2011	Moncton /Canada/	Parajanov le Magnifique	Art Gallery
2012	Moscow	S. Parajanov. House where I live	New Manеge Exhibition hall
2013	Odessa /Ukraine/	Exhibition of S. Parajanov works	4-th International Film Festival of Odessa Museum of Literature
2013	Vilnius Lithuania	«Sergei Parajanov. A Film Genius of Unbridled Imagination»	Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum
2014	Moscow	«Sergey Parajanov. The Color of Pomegranate»	«Gallery Solyanka» VPA
2014	USA	Sergey Parajanov: The Creator	Gilbert Albert Gallery
2015	Brussels /Belgium/	«Sargis with Parajanov»	Villa Empain