Roman Mikhailyuk "Hutsul"
Today, Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery as part of the 9th International Month of Photography in Moscow "Biennale 2012" presents an exhibition of Roman Mikhailuk "Hutsul"
Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, March 22 - May 13, 2012
Moscow street. Prechistenka 19
Today Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery as part of the 9th International Month of Photography in Moscow "Biennale 2012" an exhibition of Roman Mikhailuk "Hutsul».
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Mikhailyuk Roman was born in 1974 in western Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk. There's also graduated from high school, and later - Carpathian University, where he specialized in graphic artist.
Carpathians - main theme of art and photographic interests of Roman Mikhailuk. He started walking all the Carpathian mountain ranges and gorges, visiting the most remote places. He lived there for weeks and sometimes months.
favorite time of year Roman - winter. The more cold and more snow the better. The farther away from civilization, the more interesting. Mikhailyuk he began creating cameras that are tailored to the rigors of filming.
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Photographer stubbornly refuses to digital technology, believing that it does not allow more fully and adequately to express his ideas. Removes a wide and medium format film. Most at risk. Sometimes difficult to set up the camera fell into the abyss and go to pieces. Roman went down and collected all the details and recovered the camera. Surprising some kind of camera Novel: warped, cracked glass, but - all the work.
In landscapes, many novel and long-life pictures of Hutsul shepherds, who kicked in the early spring flocks of sheep on alpine polonyny (meadows) and lived there until late autumn.
joining the Ukrainian photo Alternative, several Roman changed his style became freer to experiment with materials, expanded the range of topics. Last "herding" series, filmed on an old film, filled with strange mystical Carpathian (among many shepherds healers and sorcerers), subtle observations, interpretations of unusual and incredible artistry. The cameras, which uses a novel, allow him to create his unique style, which most accurately reflects the nature and essence of the world polonyn. There's time is stretched, like rubber, and sometimes stops altogether. There's a sheep talking human voices, and the grass whisper predicted fate. And in the dark eyes Hutsuls can see the distant past and near future ...
a novel published the book "Kolo vіchnostі ukraїnskih Carpathians." He is a participant about 40 exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, etc.
Alexander Lyapin
Source : Press Release Mamma
