{"id":8649,"date":"2020-05-21T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8649"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:06:39","slug":"believe-in-yourself-and-never-give-up-once-your-talent-will-shoot-and-hit-the-target-aleksandra-aronova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8649","title":{"rendered":"“Believe in yourself and never give up. Once your talent will shoot and hit the target.”-Aleksandra Aronova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a start, Aleksandra graduated Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts. Shortly she got a one-year education as an art-director at BBDO WordShop art school in Moscow. As a result, Aleksandra was employed by Russian branch of the BBDO group as an art-director, which became her job for the next five years. In 2016 she graduated British High School of Arts and Design in Moscow, where she got a diploma of stage design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exclusive Interview with Aleksandra Aronova – Designer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What\nprojects are you currently working on?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before quarantine I worked on\nKirill Serebrennikov\u2019s project \u00abDecameron\u00bb. This performance is the result\nof collaboration of the Deutsche Theater in Berlin and the Gogol Center in\nMoscow. We managed to make the premiere in Berlin and actually it began – the\nDecameron around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling is what matters to me.\nThe feeling that the viewer experiences during and after watching. You can not\nleave the viewer indifferent. He must be plunged into story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What\nmakes a film great for you? Are there certain qualities that make a film better\nfor you?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably, as a costume and set\ndesigner, I should say that it is a beautiful picture and a composition of\nframe and color. I should also mention the combination and correspondence of\nall objects in the frame. I should say that it is important that the trousers\nand jacket must belong to the same epoch. But I will not say so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling is what matters to me.\nThe feeling that the viewer experiences during and after watching. You can not\nleave the viewer indifferent. He must be plunged into story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feeling appears when\neveryone in the team works together and understands each other, as it was with \u00abOlma Djon\u00bb. A good picture for me does not\nalways mean that it is my style or \u00abI like it that way\u00bb. For me it is much more\nimportant to understand the director, even become his continuation or in some\ncases his contradiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, I don\u2019t like to\nkeep the style of certain epoch or period of time  … but if you change or brake something on\npurpose you should do it artistically and it definitely must have sense. I like deep layer of meaning and a clever,\nsometimes unexpected approach in cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>As <\/strong>a costume and set designer<\/strong>, what is\nthe most important aspect of building a character? <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always think about\nthe actor. The costume should be comfortable, and give confidence and\ninspiration. Details matter.  A button from 19th century in a pocket of the frock coat may help actor to feel the time, when he touching it\nwith fingers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did not have time\nfor doubts and reflection during \u201cOlma Djon\u201d project. I made sketches of the\nmain characters, seeing them only in photos, not knowing their exact sizes and\nwhat kind of clothes can be found in Kazakhstan … It was challenging to start\nwork just in 3 days before the shootings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a miracle that we have got an access to the costumes from Kazakhfilm storages. This gave us a huge impulse to the understanding and authenticity of the characters. The torn pea jacket of Bolot, his wife, worn as a cabbage; their daughter Sholpan quickly swathed with sagging kerchief, a bit lost and confused.. And that dusty tone of costume tissues, like a tone of a frozen time.. I loved it a lot. However, the most difficult character was a Shaman woman. She is not an actress, she is just a talented woman and she needed to be the guide to the main characters. I thought about her image a lot. Her head wear I embroidered myself during five days, including all the flight Moscow-Almaty (and being 6 months pregnant at that time). It seemed to me that in every sewn bead, I put strength and magic. And I must say it helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n