artist's last days will take place at the MOST Theatre on November 2. Georgy Dolmazyan's production is unusual in that the scenery and costumes were created by a neural network based on Niko Pirosmani's most famous paintings. Artificial intelligence also stylized masterpieces by other masters, such as Jan Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci, as Pirosmani. Izvestia attended the pre-premiere screening.
On the playbill, all the participants netherlands whatsapp number database in the action are divided into roles: Vadim Korostylev wrote the play, Georgy Dolmazyan acted as the director, and a neural network was responsible for the scenography. The role of Niko, who is living his last day, is played by Honored Artist of Russia Vsevolod Guseinov, and the role of the narrator is played by Alexander Khoshabaev.
The play about how the great master of naive art, whose work was highly valued by Pablo Picasso himself, lived his last days in poverty and illness, was born by Korostylev in 1974. The action takes place in a closet under the stairs in house No. 29 on Molokanskaya Street in Tbilisi (now Pirosmani Street), where the artist was found dead in 1918. He spent three days in the basement.
According to the plot, Niko slowly goes mad, meeting in his mind the heroes of his own paintings. They shower the unfortunate man with complaints. Margarita (painting "Actress Margarita") is outraged by bare shoulders and a "bunch of roses" instead of a bouquet, the fisherman (painting "Fisherman in a Red Shirt") assures that he has never had a red shirt, and the princes ("Feast of the Three Princes") complain about hunger and thirst. In the play, the author added a character: Iya is a girl drawn in all of Pirosmani's paintings, but she is hidden everywhere. And throughout the play, the artist assures that he did not draw her. As it really was, since this was the playwright's invention.
Dolmazyan's production differs slightly from the original play - it is shortened by about half, which is why it lasts one hour and 10 minutes. Margarita here does not complain to the artist about "Dutch stockings that make you fat", and Iya does not get into a fight with the janitor. It is noteworthy that Iya's character in the play is divided between two actresses: one laughs with a red balloon in her hand, and the other silently floats in a lace robe, appearing only to tell Niko: "I'm not real."
But the scene in which the author makes fun of art critics has been preserved. And the key paintings for the play have remained the same: "The Fisherman in the Red Shirt", "The Feast of the Three Princes", "Grape Harvest", "The Janitor", "The Actress Margarita" and "Grigol". The only thing missing was "The Georgian Woman with a Tambourine", but "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Jan Vermeer and "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci appeared. At some point in the narrative, all the works were replaced by digital replicas of the paintings reinterpreted by a neural network.