“Ludmila Petrushevskaya in gardens of other opportunities”

Anna Akmatova’s Museum in the Fountain House

St. Petersburg, February 20 — March, 8 2009

Ludmila Petrushevskaya’s personal exhibitions took place in Moscow: in Literature Museum, Tret’yakovskaya gallery and Artistic gallery, but it was the first time when her works were shown in St. Petersburg. Besides the well-known water-colours of the series “Rose mania” and the author’s self-portraits (including the famous portrait in black hat) people of St. Petersburg could admire new works of the series “Tango” and “Model’s song” as well as original comic strips which are to be published in the book “Five days before tomorrow”.

The exhibition allowed visitors not only to familiarize with artistic works of Ludmila Petrushevskaya but also plunge into the unique atmosphere of her literary works. Children’s part of the exposition provided access to a small pig Peter’s house, children could play there and watch animated cartoons drawn by Ludmila Petrushevskaya and voiced by her grand and great grand children, drink tea with a kitten Sashka and dog Marusya sitting under the money tree which included not only leaves-banknotes but also almost all the content of the “rubbish trunk”. The door named “M-psychosis” opened the dark and tragic world of Ludmila Petrushevskaya’s prose for adults. Some attention was also paid to dramaturgy reminding about legendary performances of 1970-1990s, the exhibition showed visitors a number of modern plays which were shown in one of halls of the Fountain House.

Opening of the exhibition. February, 20:

N. Popova, Director of the Fountain House	N.Burov, Popular Artist of the Russian Federation, Director of the Museum of St. Isaac’s cathedral	Ludmila Petrushevskaya	Readers and spectators at the exhibition opening
Ludmila Petrushevskaya	Ludmila Petrushevskaya gives autographs	A part of installation	A part of installation
Visitors at the exhibition opening	Ludmila Petrushevskaya opens the exhibition. In the background: N. Popova, Director of the Fountain House, A.Florenskaya, artist, author of the installations.	A.Bolshev, Director for Development of the International association “Live classics” and Yaroslava Kin, project manager
Exhibition:
Pictures gallery. Painting of Ludmila Petrushevskaya.	Painting of Ludmila Petrushevskaya.	Photos from the writer’s personal archive	Three girls in blue
	The third hall of the exhibition: Ludmila Petrushevskaya’s theatrical world	A trunk of rubbish things \
A small pig Peter and a dog Marusya in children’s playground of the exhibition.	Announcements of Ludmila Petrushevskaya	Entrance to the exhibition made of various editions of Ludmila Petrushevskaya
	A black coat	Children’s playground: Money tree and a small pig Peter’s house