The Atist 'Mark Chagall'

'The Russian Jew Mark Shagal who lived in France for a long period of time depicted his hometown of Vitebsk where he spent his childhood and youth. "Dreams of Exile" is the first ever play in Russia dedicated to Mark Shagal and his works. Asked why he chose this very painter, director Ginkas said: "It happened by chance, I had to stage a play about exile for demonstrating in Paris. Shagal long lived in exile. I thought his pictures could tell much about the emigration. Besides they speak of love, parting, joys of life, pain, death, childhood and motherland . . . Like Shagal's pictures the play is about searches for the God in each of the painter's picture, whether it features clouds, people or a yard behind a Vitebsk shoemaker's house. The play is full of an array of symbols coming from Shagal's canvases.'
(www.vor.ru/culture/cultard254_eng.html)

Kama Ginkas the director of Russian Theatre Company 'The Moscow Young Spectators' talks above about their play based on exile for demonstrating in paris, which was dedicated to Mark Chagall's work. Alot of Chagall's paintings are based around animals, people or objects floating or flying, including the painting of the goat flying into space playing a violin. With his work influenced by him living in Russia and him being exiled from his own country, gave me ideas about his story and his work relating to Ilya Kabakov's, especially from the quote above, speaking about Chagall's paintings bein about love, parting, joys of life, pain, death, childhood and most specifically the 'motherland'! which is spoken about in the Russian national anthem which is in our piece. Also his work is influenced by searching for god, which could be seen as a close relation to Ilya Kabakov's work, being about freedom, excape, in search of a better place, which seems very similar ideas in Mark Chagall's work!