«Red. Brown. Yesterday's Sandwich ». Exhibition of Boris Mikhailov
ARTinvestment.RU   25 апреля 2008

From 25 April to 25 May at the Museum of modern art ART4. RU will host exhibition of photographs by Boris Mikhailov «Red. Brown. Yesterday's Sandwich »

From 25 April to 25 May at the Museum of modern art ART4.RU will host exhibition of photos of Boris Mikhailov «Red. Brown. Yesterday's sandwich ».

Boris Mikhailov - photographer, which is called «a post-Soviet art in the West». Shocking and nostalgic aesthetics of Mikhailov's work has brought worldwide fame and numerous prestigious awards, including the Swedish « Hasselblad » - a sort of Nobel Prize for photographers. Now the artist lives in Germany and in Russia are rarely exposed. Exposition «Red. Brown. Yesterday's sandwich »represents the three most famous series of his works.

Once upon a time, when the onset of communism, people have ceased to believe, but new life has not started yet, Kharkov Engineer Boris Mikhailov took the hands of the camera and decided to record everything that happens around them. Because the reality was twofold, if not absurd, Mikhailovskiy special reception there by itself. «I will never dealt with a photograph, inadvertently showed two films, put them together, and then look - a class. Skylight looked at the slides, and we got a whole heap more than ever not seen pictures, and then I began to feel that I am a photographer », - says Mikhailov.

The exhibition consists of three series. The first represents the «double» work. She gave the name of the exhibition. Gravitating more to painting a series of contrapositions: formal - informal, freedom - lack of freedom, trust - distrust, and so on. Another series was created by using a panoramic camera «Gorizont». This so-called «brown» series of the late 1980's. «When the Soviet life, and became worse, I captured it for ourselves. It was bad, bad, bad, this series is called "The Land". It could go into the street, and for one month could be all ».

homeless Simpleton, and just the little people in a large and nekazistom world - these are the characters of Boris Mikhailov. Most importantly, in the opinion of the photographer, to record reality. There remains only one question: Are these photos will be the test of time? Will these heroes are interesting today? «To a certain extent. It is important to find the new person. Here is a man, he seems to be, and not visually interesting - the Soviet people, the highest man becomes a hero, but бомжи now ceased to be interesting ».

Of course, the mythology of 2000's, with its specific characters such as office workers and middle-class is only beginning to emerge. And what if they really become the new heroes in the photos? Do not lose your Boris Mikhailov informal title «person of post-Soviet art in the West»? In fact, this issue will not be so exotic.

Source: tvkultura.ru