From the Idea to Realization

Creators and Participants of the Project

Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai: Recollections After the Apocalypse

The stamp of high art, even on plywood, gives it the chance in various situations to resonate like art instead of some substitute material. It’s an incredible paradox. It is not a literal rendering, b

Аlexander Sokurov: A Dedication to Rembrandt

None of this would have happened if Mikhail Piotrovsky had not come up with the idea. I would not have dared to go it by myself. Even tangential involvement with the Hermitage inspires a sense of mean

Semyon Mikhailovsky :The Hermitage in Venice. Story of The Creation

State Hermitage Director Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky calls his museum a “global museum of world culture” – “an encyclopaedical museum, present all over the world”, even all over the universe.

Mikhail Piotrovsky: "Rembrandt has become an Installation, and that's great."

I would like to return the compliment: if it hadn’t been for Alexander Nikolaevich none of this would have existed. Devoting the exhibition of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale to the Hermit

Vladimir Brodarsky: Sokurov’s Hands

Для российского павильона на Венецианской биеннале Александр Сокуров придумал трансформировать полотно Рембрандта «Блудный сын» в скульптурную инсталляцию.