In memory of Gennady Bednostin
1933 - 2001
Graphics
In the gallery halls

An artist, an actor, an engineer… Gennady Ivanovitch Bednostin was born in Vladivostok.
His brightest childhood, adolescence and youth impressions are: vast spaces of the Pacific, sun and starry sky of subtropics, primeval beauty of the Ussuriisky taiga, which is a marvel of the Far East flora and fauna.
He received a craving for painting in early childhood from his father. The 30s, the war, postwar period, the year of 1953 were a powerful load of life impressions.
Comprehension, unveiling of true values of the surrounding world went on in a never-ending fight with himself, instinctively. “Squeezing out” slave mentality became a basis of internal liberation…
From 1956, after graduating from Moscow Technical Institute of Fishing named after Mikoyan his life is connected with St Petersburg. Searches of “his own” way never stopped. A job of industrial engineer did not bring him satisfaction.
A whirl of fortune was entering the evening vocal department of Leningrad State Conservatoire. “Workflow” of students in a vocal workshop resulted in a trauma of vocal cords.
Then there was admission to the art studio affiliated to the House of Culture named after Volodarsky to improve drawing technique. Studying at Higher Art School became reality. But then came another sudden whirl of fortune, and he was admitted to acting department of Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema named after N.Ostrovsky (LGITMiK), USSR people’s artist V.V.Meruriev’s and I.V.Meierhold’s studio.
In 1965 the theatre institute was finished with a red diploma. There were over 30 years of work in theatres of Leningrad, Vladivostok, Vorkuta, Vladimir, Petrozavodsk, Liepaja, etc.
From 1983 he worked in Murmansk Drama Theatre.
Work in graphics continued during all those years...