11.10.2018 The anniversary exhibition "Ingmar Bergman and his legacy in art and fashion"
On 11 October, 2018, at 4 pm, the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, jointly with the Embassy of Sweden in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Swedish Institute, open the anniversary exhibition "Ingmar Bergman and his legacy in art and fashion" dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the great Swedish director of theater and cinema, writer, three-time winner of the "Oskar" award – INGMAR BERGMAN.
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in 1918. In the city of Uppsala (Sweden), in the family of Lutheran pastor Eric Bergman and nurse Karin Bergman. Bergman interested in theater and cinema from childhood. When at the age of nine his brother presented him a “magic lantern” - a projection apparatus, on which Ingmar created his first masterpieces - his own cartoons. At the age of twelve, for the first time in his life, Bergman touched the magic of acting reincarnation. Starting from this age and up to the end of the gymnasium, his favorite hobby, in addition to his experiments with the magic lantern, was the homemade puppet theater, for which Ingmar constantly built new versions of theaters, made decorations and lighting systems.
In 1937, Bergman entered the Stockholm University College (later Stockholm University), where he studied literature and art history, devoting all his time to theatrical activities of the youth club.
After a period of study and theatrical apprenticeship, Bergman served as full-time director, as well as combined director, artistic director, artistic adviser in theaters in the cities of Helsingborg (1943-1946), Gothenburg (1946-1950), Malmö (1952-1959), Stockholm ( 1961-1976) of Munich (1977-1984) and again of Stockholm (1984-2007).
The main themes of creativity of Ingmar Bergman - the crisis of religion, traditional family and personality; search for real relationships between people. Making the main emphasis on people’s faces transmitting a complex range of feelings, Bergman, with the help of his actors, was able to convey the most complex experiences of an existential meeting of a person with the truth about the world within and around himself.
During his 89-year-old life, the director became the author of more than 170 theater plays, made more than 60 feature films and documentaries for cinema and television, and wrote scripts for most of them. Ingmar Bergman is the winner of film festivals: “Cannes” (7), “Venetian” (4), “Berlin” (2), in Mar del Plata (1), “Giffoni” (1); “National Council of Film Critics of the USA” (3), “Community of Film Critics of the USA” (3), “Association of Film Critics of Argentina” (1), “National Society of Film Critics of the USA” (5), “Association of Film Critics of Kansas City”, “Association Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (1), French Film Critics Syndicate. Awarded the Cesar Awards (1), Bodil (4), Camerimage (1), David di Donatello (3), Directors Guild of America, European Film Academy, Golden Beetle (3) , “Silver Ribbon” (5), “Jussi” (1), “Kinema Jumpo” (1), “Sant Jordi” (1).
Among the world film masterpieces of Bergman are Seventh Seal (1957), Strawberry Glade (1957), Persona (1966), Whispers and Screams (1972), Fanny and Alexander (1982).
Ingmar Bergman died in a dream in the 90th year of his life on July 30, 2007 in his home on Foro Island, on the same day as another well-known film director, Michelangelo Antonioni. His nine children also became mainly cultural and art workers.
The exposition includes various photographic materials, short films, allowing to trace the influence of the great master's work on fashion, music, theater and dance.
The exhibition will be open until October 31, 2018.
