Project "Ultrapamyat" by the Centre "ROSPHOTO", presents the work of five young French authors, working at the intersection of painting and photography

October 7 in St. Petersburg opened exhibition "Ultrapamyat", organized by the National Centre of Photography ROSPHOTO. This project presents the work of five young French artists: Michel Castaño, Joseph Choi, Herve Ica, Natalia Lyakh and Cyrilla Hatta.

artists of the late XIX century, believed that the appearance of a photo may lead to the extinction of painting . However, light painting, the invisible history that began long before the world embraced dagerromaniya has become an important tool in the development of art. Picture, as he Brassaï, embodied in the consciousness of art. " "She constantly reminds that the painting should not do" and makes the painting a "responsible". "Ultrapamyat" - a project that represents the creativity of five young French authors, working at the intersection of the arts.

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prototypes of the figurative images of Michel Castagnier often become characters in the old amateur photographs, which the author gathers around the world. His deliberately simplified style with broad strokes helps viewers recognize the photographic subject in unfinished form and shape. "I try to be expressed directly, the easiest way to go - says the artist. - I am looking for a dilemma. I refuse effects. For me the image - it is a memory from which to us, except for a few details, remain important. The Banality of photos that I use makes my characters universal ».

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Joseph Choi, a French artist of Korean descent, uses in his art photography and video. Project "People #" is based on images taken from a recent video of John F. Kennedy. Linens Choi inhabited by anonymous characters, existing in an undefined space. Inkrustiruya the pictorial surface of the transparent resin and pieces of lace, the author simulates the canvas structure of digital photography, gives her beautiful works of photographic form.

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Painting Herve from ICA, lives and works between Paris and Brussels, examines the processes of change that accompany the person in the course of its evolution. In his work the author examines the relationship of man with a history of a style era, through the psychological features characteristic of a particular time. According to Ferdinand Court, accuracy, thoroughness, obstinacy, obsession determine its picturesque effect. Depth, awareness, humility and sensitivity determine his thoughts. It frees the reality and creates a harmony between its various dimensions. Putting on the canvas one by one the layers of images, creating an kvazinasyscheniya space, turning the picturesque surface of the screen, it makes psychological discoveries which tell of his work on "now "».

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Creativity Natalia Lyakh drawn to the hidden aspects of our daily lives. Formed under the influence of her academic career neyrolingvista artistic vision, this view optics, physics or a psychoanalyst, turns the camera or camcorder is a telescope, in a kaleidoscope, then through a microscope. Unexpected interpretations of the outside world by using photography and video, and embodied in various materials (plexiglass, aluminum or canvas) - these are images that detect abstraction in everyday life. According to the author's photographic project "windshield" - is "thinking about our relationship with collective memory." Snapshots of the XIX and early XX century, placed in the rear-view mirrors of cars, rushing along the highway, offering to reflect on how our ancestors would have taken a rapid acceleration of modern life.

To create each stereoscopic Photos Cyrilla Hatta requires hundreds of staff. Pictures of objects, imprinted with different points of view are superimposed on one another and create the illusion of relief, turned into three-dimensional sculpture. With the simplicity of the means (a digital camera, a regular printer, a roll of tape, stapler), and great patience, he plays with great approximation of what goes into his lens. Images that surround us in everyday life, objects attractions and facilities depending on the product can be heroes and be turned into an illusion. "Devaluing" objects of consumption of the modern world, putting them into the world of silence and waiting, Cyrille Hutt returns them to life in art.

Creativity each of the authors presented a gallery Niva-Karzon "by Program of the Year of France-Russia in showrooms "ROSPHOTO" is an original version of the combination and interaction of painting and photography. So unlike each other variations on themes arising from the difference between the meanings and individual authors are particularly interesting when exposed in the same space and provide the St. Petersburg audience a chance to get acquainted with the whole direction of modern French art.

Exhibition will run until November 14, 2010.

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