In the halls of the Moscow Museum of modern art as part of the Ninth Moscow international Biennale "The Fashion and style in photography – 2015" will be displayed artistic projects of Russian and foreign authors.
THE OPENING WILL TAKE PLACE ON 16 FEBRUARY 2015 19:00 AT THE MOSCOW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, ERMOLAEVSKY PEREULOK 17
THE EXHIBITION WILL BE HELD FROM FEBRUARY 16, 2015 till MARCH 29, 2015
ALICE RESNICK "ONE ANOTHER"
CURATOR: Laura Serani
SUPPORTED by: Panasonic
Alice Resnick is the Russian artist,she is living and working in Berlin. At the age of 14 years after the collapse of the USSR together with the parents she has emigrated to Germany. She has been studing philosophy at the Berlin Humboldt University and art history in Italian Bologna. Because of familiarity with legendary photographers documentary Antoine D'agata and Anders Peterson became interested in photography, traveled extensively in Europe, Russia and Ukraine. This resulted in the project "One Another" – photos from her travels between Berlin and St. Petersburg, West and East, the eras before and after the fall of the Berlin wall, who in 2013 won the prestigious European Publishers Award for Photography. In it she explores the nature of fear, emptiness, darkness, and loneliness, all that separates people, makes them fragile and vulnerable.
"As in the photos, and in the life I'm looking for people who are not afraid of intimacy…" – says Alice Resnick. Her characters pose in front of the faded curtains and worn leather banquettes, sometimes a distance, sometimes with a call or contempt for the camera. The portraits are replaced by bars and empty hotel corridors, abandoned factories, houses, which seems to be not living, despite the lighted windows, trees, snow covered or wrapped in garlands, asking a particular rhythm to the narrative.
KRISTA & ANDREW "THE FLOWING PORTRAITS"
SUPPORTED by: Panasonic
The artistic Duo: Qatar Krista & Andrew in the Biennale is presented the project "The flowing portraits". The works of the artists are exhibited in the Middle East, North and Central America and Europe. Last year Puerto Rican Christto Sanz (he was born in 1985) and the South African Andrew Weir (he was born in 1987) had become the winners of the 2014 Talents" magazine "FOAM". In their work they use photography and video, creating portraits of compatriots, and giving each of them the elusive symbolic meaning. Like the fragments of the puzzle, folding the full picture, "The flowing portraits" Krista and Andrew create intricate symbiosis of history, politics, economics, and popular culture, revealing the construction of modern society in its state, which emerged in the Persian Gulf. The exaggerated color, staged composition and weird humour plastic stress state of constant change, which are formed and interact in a variety of ways of life in Qatar.
Images Krista and Andrew emphasis on two parallel dialogues: one of them takes place in the local community, expatriate, and both involve many cultures and subcultures, typical of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
OLGA IZAKSON "The JOURNEY"
The PROJECT IS PRESENTED by the Moscow School of photography and multimedia named after A. Rodchenko
SUPPORTED by: MasterCard
"The Journey" is the first major project of the Moscow photographer- Olga Izakson. The exhibition consists of several related to each other series. "Louis Vuitton backstage" shooting, which began the history of cooperation between the young artist and the famous fashion House. Inspired by the good start, the Russian representatives Louis Vuitton invited Olga to take part in the creation of fashion – series, the main "actors" which would be the fashion accessories of the brand and the capital of Russian constructivism – the city of Yekaterinburg. Stylish, simple black and white pictures emphasize the connection between fashion and architecture, sing the clean lines, the volume from a minimum of resources inherent in constructivism in the twenties and thirties. Working on them, Olga Izakson turned to the works of Alexander Rodchenko Third series of the project "The Journey" is called "sunstroke". It started in 2008 and is still ongoing. On the one hand is the observation of the surprising behavior of people on the beach, paradoxically exhausted rest, and on the other hand is a story about finding one's way about how easy photography grew into a passion, because during the work on this project a graduate of MGIMO and employee of a large advertising Agency – Olga Izakson, decided to change his life and to devote himself entirely to photography. "Someone did not understand why I do, but I was lucky: I've met people who have guided me and shared their experience," she recalls about her studies at the New York International Center of Photography and at the Moscow school of photography and media arts. A. Rodchenko, representing the project of Olga Izakson at the Biennale "The Fashion and style in photography 2015".
IGOR PLANE "The HERBARIUM"
The PROJECT IS PRESENTED by the Moscow School of photography and multimedia named after A. Rodchenko
SUPPORTED by: Panasonic
Young Russian artist, a graduate of the Moscow school of photography and multimedia named after A. Rodchenko- Igor Airplane, he takes us to the village, but not simple, and absolutely amazing, in some other dimension, once in which do is catch yourself thinking about the unreality of what is happening and to think about the complex organization of this space. At different times in this imaginary village lived the peasants, the farmers, cottagers, leaving traces of their presence, filling it with new meanings, which captures Igor Plane: "…penetrating into different layers of the past, I try to capture a mood – country – lyric, collective farm, and the superstitious. Mixing all these States, I try to make a portrait of this place and make friends with him."
MARIA IONOVA – GROBINA "The FATHERS"
CURATOR: Nina Levitin
The PROJECT IS PRESENTED by the Museum "Moscow House of photography"
SUPPORTED by: Panasonic
The project of Mary Ionova- Gribin is devoted to the study of identity in modern Russian men through fatherhood. The project has an element of performance: the author invites you to shoot childless men (childlessness and age – the only requirements for the models), but did not report them to the theme, and alleged circumstances of the shooting. Volunteer Maria acquaints with their children and offers to imagine that now it is his children. What would he have been able to do with them? To help with homework or play? Together to prepare lunch or repair the scooter? As if he wanted to be photographed with their children? Photographer explores the conscious and unconscious behavior of men in front of the camera: will not refuse to do it from shooting whether to feel free or constrained, how his body language will reflect his psychological state.
VIC LADANOV "LIVING WITH OTHERS"
CURATOR: Nina Levitin
The PROJECT IS PRESENTED by the Museum "Moscow House of photography"
SUPPORTED by: Panasonic
Vic Ladanov explores the theme of personal space. The project "Living with others" is an attempt to find an area of the comfort and safety of loneliness inside interior IKEA. "The internal organization of the store involves mixing personal and social," says the artist – ready interiors impose itself as a personal territory, offering to try the comfort of a cozy home. At the same time, this store is a social space, assuming certain rules of conduct. I extend my personal space, breaking the rules store and involving customers in interaction with me." Thus, Vic Ladanov focuses our attention on the conflict between the personal and the public.
IVAN LUNGIN "EXODUS"
CURATOR: Olga Sviblova
The PROJECT IS PRESENTED by the Museum "Moscow House of photography"
SUPPORTED by: Panasonic
"The exodus" is the first photo of Ivan Lungin, which we know primarily as a painter and the author of the installations. But here, the photograph, above all, is the material from which grows the next installation. Ivan Lungin also reflects on the phenomenon of emptiness. This emptiness paradoxically born in the city, and its synonym in the project "Exodus" is the crowd. In the still of urban architecture, which is the subject of his paintings, and now and photographic works, the human silhouette is just a faceless shadow, Ghost, emptiness. Only "pulling back, neck, part of the landscape of the usual context, stopping for a moment, framing them in a subjective framework, we endow them with life, meaning, symbolism – motivated," writes Ivan Lungin in the Preface to the project.
ALBERT SOLDIERS OF BALTUS"
The PROJECT IS PRESENTED by the Moscow School of photography and multimedia named after A. Rodchenko
SUPPORTED by: Panasonic
The project of Albert Soldatova – Baltus awarded in 2014 Kandinsky Prize in the category "Young artist. Project of the year" is a story about the modern human condition, which is most clearly characterized by the words: exhausted, omissions and comfort. The video consists of ten scenes, reproducing the scenes artist Balthus. Voice conversations are reduced to meaningless phrases, taken from the social networks. And the characters symbolize the modern user, information overloaded noise. The author shows us "…man comfortably settled on the couch with a gadget in his hands, which draws a finger across the touchscreen, and endless flickering images on the screen brings him into a state of torpor – like characters of Baltus. The word "Balthus" has ceased to be only the name of the French artist, it has become synonymous with the state of unresponsiveness, woodiness of body and mind".
