Today in the gallery "Sovkom" an exhibition of photographs and sculptures of the famous traveler, photographer and sculptor George Beloyvana

Gallery scoops, August 19 - September 17, 2011

Today the Gallery SOVCOM (str Shchepkina 28) opened an exhibition of the famous traveler, photographer and sculptor Beloyvana "Other people».

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Source: Press Release Gallery SOVCOM

This widescreen photo story about the differences and the unity of human beings. « At this moment in the world, with us live about 7 billion people. They are not bad and not good. They are simply people who do not like us. When we understand this, it becomes easier and easier to live on Earth. This was my project », - says of the exhibition author.

Geo, or etnofoto now a fashion trend in the art of photography. If you have good equipment, these images are often made from a board of private flying, swimming or a vehicle. Yuri Beloyvan all routes walked, the highest mountain in the world, including "seventhousanders" both won the pole itself (behind in mountaineer and explorer Argentine Andes, Mount Elbrus, Cho-Oyu (Tibet), Alaska, Mont Blanc, an extinct volcano Chimborazo in South America, Carstensz Pyramid (Papua - New Guinea), Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica), and in May 2011, Yuri conquered Everest Beloyvan!

And - India. Where all other people were on it at arm's length. Perhaps this is the moment when ethnology ceases to be "supporting" a historical discipline, and becomes the basis of image for the photographer. And he himself is aware of no bystander , fixing the film going on around him, but the creator or, perhaps, a kind of medium, transmitting the images of another world - a world other people .

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Source: Press Release Gallery SOVCOM

Some of the portraits, which were first presented at the exhibition, made in Tibet. But the majority - in India, during the 40-day religious festival Kumbh Mela. Gross Kumbh Mela (a Sanskrit word that means the expression "the Feast of Jars") is celebrated every 12 years and collected a record number of pilgrims (the last time there were about 40 (!) million). By the way, in connection with the religious festival in Allahabad even listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

Among these millions, says Beloyvan, «someone comes to their teachers, who wants to see miracles, someone - to know themselves and the world, or simply going on a trip ... In short, I saw the people there are very sick and the maimed, of whom I could not even lift. I saw the poor, the tired, the poor, but I have not seen accidents and inoculated, which so many have even among the millionaires ».

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Source: Press Release Gallery SOVCOM

contemplation, silence and rest of world cities, shown on the first solo exhibition of the artist's "Night City" (2006), later replaced by "care of the cities" in search of his roots and himself in the natural world, a world of majestic mountains and the poles - so projects were born, "Top" and "Top II» (2007, 2009gg..) The immersion into the worlds of physical and geographical - cities and mountain peaks - led by to attempt a deeper, psychological immersion: this time in the world other , in images and reflections other people . For assistance in finding the primary sources and sources Yuri Beloyvanu, in addition to photography, comes and possession of skills and sculpture. The current exhibition presents sculptures made of bronze and stone.

Beloyvan Yuri was born in 1966 in Kiev. photograph started with 10 years of age. The Russian sculptor ( Member of Moscow Union of Artists since 2009) and photographer. He lives and works in Moscow. traveler and mountain climber, a member of Russia's "7 Summits Club" ("7 Summits" - a collection of climbing the highest peaks of the seven continents).

Source : Press Release Gallery SOVCOM