"Gorsyuzhi" - an abbreviation of "urban stories". To see the new photo project Anatolia Kleymenova on Moscow, it is 11 to 18 May 2010 in the Gallery "Expo 88"

From 11 to 18 May 2010 in the Gallery "Expo-88" on display exhibition photographer Anatoly Kleymenova.

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Gorsyuzhi Anatolia Kleymenova

name photographer Anatoly Kleymenova not known to the public. He does not sell his works are rarely exhibited, apart from regular home presentations, with tea, conversation, discussion and argument, which is something forgotten, shestidesyatnicheskoe. Actually, the picture itself, which he has been for over thirty years, until now bromserebryanaya, the present paper, film, where the artistic result is achieved not by the effects of digital processing, as well as a surprise and precision of composite solutions with complete authenticity of place and time.

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His archive is huge. This material could be set up with a dozen thematic exhibitions. And every cycle is marked originality plastic handwriting and outlook of the author: "Watercolors", "Diary" (Diary of betrayal, lies a diary, a diary of love, The Notebook), "Solntsegrad" (solstice, the solar plexus), "Mermaids," "The Rain People", "Gorsyuzhi» ...

«Gorsyuzhi" - an abbreviation of "urban stories". At the heart gorsyuzhey are not genre scenes, and drama of the city itself - its spaces, tectonics, rhythms, games of light and shade, the opposition time and states. The main character gorsyuzhey - Moscow. Recognizable and unfamiliar, like, say, a monument to Zhukov, Made up suddenly, the statue of the Commander, when at a certain hour of early morning, he casts a shadow on the wall of the former Lenin Museum. Or Pushkin monument, which resembles a playing card "Queen of Spades. The artist admires deliberate miracle of steel structures, rhythm-iron fences, reminiscent of an old engraving, sacred twilight streets with surreal introduction of modern advertising. Advertising - a separate issue, the decisions of wit and grace. It exists in the space of the city with a degree of inevitability, which involves a globalized world, changing the shape of our cities and ourselves. But Moscow Anatoly Kleymenova - the body, carrying in itself and a certain genetic code - layering of representations of many generations of beauty, desirability, value system. This applies not only to architectural and sculptural monuments, but also the style of work of the photographer, causing memories of urban themes by Russian artists from Ostroumova-Lebedeva , Dobuzhinsky to Labasa , Luchishkina , Deineka , Kupreyanova , Nivinsky .

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Association with painting justified and coloristic sound works of Kleymenova, which is very delicately working with color. The color in his photographs deprived documentary literally and brutality. Using a combination of filters, natural lighting, different during the day, he works to ensure that the color becomes a part of imagery, as well as composition, silhouette, rhythm. Most of his pictures resemble watercolors, pastels, sepia tone - graphic techniques, textural similar nature photography.

But most importantly, no matter what aspects of life in the city nor touched A. KLEYMENOV, its images are positive, filled with inner light and harmony, which infringes, occasionally melancholic notes of what is akin to the old yearning Utrillo, departing Paris, increasingly giving way to a new, globalized world.

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Exhibition Gorsyuzhi "Gallery" Expo 88 "(Moscow, Ul. Zabelina, 1) opens May 11 at 18.00 and will be on display until May 18, 2010. Opening hours: every day except Sunday, from 14.00 to 19.00.

Source: press release Gallery "ESCR-88»