19 April at 13.30 in the space Baibakov art projects at the chocolate factory of “Red October” lecture will be the chief celebrity-British photographer Lorenzo Adzhiusa

Exhibition of the chief celebrity-photographer British Adzhiusa Lorenzo (Lorenzo Agius), entitled «LOOK AT ME» will take place from May 20 to July 20, 2009 in Stoleshnikovom Lane. And on 19 April at 13.30 in the space Baibakov art projects at the chocolate factory of «Red October» (Bersenevskaya Emb., 6) Lorenzo Adzhius lectured.

The exhibition will decorate the person first magnitude stars - lost love, sublime, - the famous photographer to entrust their image of the main world celebrities: Pierce Brosnan, Madonna, Jude Lowe, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Kira Knightley, Cate Blanchett. They always require Lorenzo, when it comes to the photographer who can look into the eyes of the star ...

Listener lectures predpremerny forward to showing the new BMW Z4 Roadster, which is by 20 May - the date retrospectives «LOOK AT ME» - Lorenzo Adzhius turn in the first Russian art-car BMW. Cars have always served as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists. Automobile and energy of motion associated with them, were and remain the subject of paintings, drawings, art photography and sculpture.

A collection of art cars BMW - an example of the inextricable relationship of art and technology, which fully reflects the concept of cultural activities throughout the Group BMW. The history of the collection of art cars BMW has started in the 1970's with the racing car of French auctioneer and avtogonschika Hervé Pulena. At the request of the owner of the car's give the artist Alexander Kolder. Since then, at various times over the collection of cars to work only the most well-known authors: Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Ernst Fuchs, Matadzo Kayam, Cesar Manrique, David Hockney and Jenny Holzer. BMW art cars were exhibited in major museums and galleries in the world - in the Louvre, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Pauerhaus Museum in Sydney, Guggenheim museums in New York and Bilbao. Of the first art-karom to be established in Russia, the company BMW Group Russia instructed Lorenzo Adzhiusu.

It is often referred to as «Knight photos» - and it is not just a beautiful metaphor. Lorenzo - a direct descendant of the Maltese knights. He was born in 1962 in Malta, he studied art at the University of East Anglia. Lorenzo took up photography seriously in 1983, when graduated from university and moved to London, although the lift off yet in 18 years. Six years of work as assistant, then Freelance, published in Vogue, ELLE, Vanity Fair - the usual way glamor photographer went nakatannoy gauge suddenly: survey of posters for cult film «On needle» (Transpotting) Lorenzo made a superstar.

This he thought Evan McGregor pour mineral water and take pictures. Very wet actor on the poster Trainspotting'a easily fit into the naturalistic-stebnuyu aesthetics of the film. «Every student on the wall hung a poster that, he even drew political cartoons. Since then, I took dozens of posters, but none has gone as good as this one. Just in other cases, too much control of me », - remembers Adzhius.

Take Transpotting became the experience of absolute creative freedom: «The director and actors were not known, so Film said to me: do as you know. I have decided to withdraw the project, which is not shouting "movie", but rather is related to fashion ». This inspired Adzhiusa stood in a number of beetle-browed substance in the unisex style of advertising CKOne (Calvin Klein), as well as teens, miners and fishermen from the project of photographer Richard Avedona In the American West. By the way, Avedona Adzhius names of those to whom it is.

Since the shooting in front of the lens Transpotting'a Lorenzo visited all the main celebrities: Anthony Hopkins and Jack Nicholson, Madonna and Beyons, Helen Mirra and Kevin Spacey, Fidel Castro and Mohammed Ali, actors, musicians, singers and a model, politics and philosophy - the first magnitude stars arranged in turn to the celebrity-photographer number 1 UK. The editors of fashion magazines to order him to fashion-photography, the world's leading brands wanted advertisements «from Adzhiusa».

«I'm very lucky: I photographed the most famous. In a world where my heroes and so is constantly watching, I need to catch something they have never shown the public ».

Many of the images engraved in memory of Lorenzo - there is something unusual, knock out the image. In the struggle for power between photographer and model of course is everything: color, texture, focus, unusual angle, and most importantly - ideas. Photo McGregor in bed with his best friend Judah Lowe - Pretty trick with the touch of an English eccentric. The enormous growth of Nicole Kidman managed to stress by placing a number of punch Evan. Anthony Hopkins Adzhius shot in profile, and Angelina Jolie turned a blind eye black bandage, thus freeing the viewer from their hypnotic sight.

Each of the Lorenzo is a very special story: «Here is Matt Grouning, the most successful cartoonist since the time of Walt Disney. When it was day of shooting, he feel bad, was not in the spirit - obviously did not want to be photographed. On the way to the studio, I bought a couple cans of yellow paint, this Simpsons yellow. Worth asking Matt to paint their hands and close their person - and the atmosphere at the site instantly changed. He understood me. A good portrait has left: a person is not visible, but just remember Bart pickle. Matt relaxed so that, after shooting even painted and signed by Simpson for all of us. I am still keeps his Homer ».

So what is most surprising - this fight is not a strong character and disappointment aversion, and emancipation, irony, humor and paradox. Including visual. Perhaps for that Lorenzo Adzhiusa so loved the model - stressing those features of appearance, which is usually fun as a child, Lorenzo allows them to return to ourselves, to look at ourselves again. This therapy is now a photo.

Lecture Lorenzo Adzhiusa will be held April 19 in the space Baibakov art projects at the chocolate factory of «Red October» (Bersenevskaya Emb., 6). Home - at 13.30.

Source: a press release the project