Today, June 29, in Nabokov Museum (St. Petersburg, Bolshaya Morskaya str., 47) exhibition at the St. Petersburg photographer Pauline Levy, "Architecture of shadows».

About Photographs Pauline Levy

Black and white photography today - uniquely retro and synonym artistry. It is valued refined aesthetes, relish noble silver tone, graphics spots velvety texture, pour the mosaic image, finally, a special, incomparable experience of temporal distance the depth of the past, unattainable in color. All this is in the photographs Pauline Levy, masterful and masterly works with black and white, use a wide range of expressive possibilities in technology, techniques, motifs and genres images.

signature feature of her work are profound as refined tone contrasts, intense and condensed twilight images for them - a real life motif, captured by underlined fragmentary. Although at first glance these pictures seem to be an abstract drawing, speaking in the language of clear forms and stamped rhythms, in the approximation we can see the textures objectivity of the surface - be it a stone slab, stucco wall, asphalt or metal. The abstract geometry of the strict lines created by the sharp, subordinating all its logic of shadows - in the city, in an architectural environment, this creates an effect accentuated clarity, enhanced by multiple repetition of the same motif - serial form, and hence the fascinating rhythm, powerful organization of space.

Such methods at first glance, refer to the aesthetics of constructivism - the photos Alexander Rodchenko , but in the end creates a still image of a meaningful and emotional fullness. Gallery twenties willed revolutionary method transformed reality, literally constructing it, subjecting it to furious pace of time. The geometry of the lines was meant dynamised space to subordinate its life-affirming power of construction.

Here, by contrast, when the external formal and stylistic similarities, the leitmotif of all images is the state of rest, stopped, sleeping time, submergence in a perfectly constructed space where the solar beam stopped on the hot surface. When this is turned off from the reality of the play of light and shadows creates stressed dismissed effect minimalist organized ornament, enhancing meditative state - Dive into a world where everything stopped and stood still. Our view, as it hangs between the enchanting magic, magic of exquisite abstract patterns and recognizable followed by a substantive motive for the real three-dimensional space, pulling shaped a number of associations, refers to a memory location.

between the failure of a blackness shadow and light, and the border, update our memory and to portray recognizable in time and space - this one for photos and mnemonics principle of recording identified here with an exaggerated clarity.

Gleb Yershov

Pauline Levy was born in 1972 in Leningrad. Lives and works in St. Petersburg. In 1997 graduated from Russian Academy of Culture with a degree in sociology of culture ". In 2000-2002 she studied at the Faculty of photographers at the St. Petersburg House of Journalists. At the same time studied at film school "frame" on Lenfilm and Baltic school photos.

professional photographer. Works in the field of landscape, portraiture and theatrical photography. It cooperates with many theaters in St. Petersburg, has numerous publications in various Russian and foreign publications, including Dance perfomance, «St. Petersburg Theatre Journal, the publication of the Mariinsky Theater" Stars of White Nights "," City "," Pulse, "the Russian newspaper, the St. Petersburg Gazette, etc.

exhibition "Architecture of Shadows" Pauline Levy opened in Nabokov Museum until August 15, 2010.

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