Today in the gallery "eye" at the Festival "Fashion and Style in Photography 2013" exhibition at Timothy Parschikov, offering a fresh look at a copy of the ancient Roman sculptures, sold along roadsides suburban roads

Gallery "eye", March 15 - May 8, 2013
Moscow Malaya Ordynka, 23

today in the gallery "eye" at the Festival "Fashion and Style in Photography 2013" exhibition at Timothy Parschikov « Times New Roman. Episode 3: Moscow ».

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At all times, every new political and financial elite feels the need to identify with classical culture. Thus it demonstrates its legitimacy and inheritance law emphasizes establishment of the previous epoch.

conquered ancient Greece, the Romans began to massively reproduce Greek sculpture. Greek culture to repeat their patterns emerging Roman elite treated lightly. For them, it was, as now, would say, gaudy kitsch . However Roman copies are examples of high classical culture, and the mass of their production has not led to a decrease in cultural values. So, when in Rome, in the thirties of the last century tried to hold a subway builders found an entire factory copies of Venus and Apollo, differing only in the degree of preservation. All they immediately went to the best museums in Italy. Roman copies exemplify Renaissance sculptors, and those, in turn, copied in all subsequent periods. As a result, today in the Louvre along coexist three copies of the Farnese Hercules - XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries.

sculptures of plaster, marble and other materials that are sold along the North American, European, and now Chinese and Russian roads, continue this tradition. The rapid emergence of the new Russian elite, to accumulate huge amounts of money and power, requires the return of another Romans, this time in the Moscow region. If the social mechanism of the treatment will be the same for the classics, contemporary Moscow copies should ever take his place in the museums.

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for the project «Times New Roman. Episode 3: The Moscow "Tim Parchikov Pseudoclassical photographed statues for sale on the roadside near Moscow. Emphasized selecting sensitive approach to their naive beauty, without irony, traditionally inherent shooting deliberately kitsch objects, he tries to speculate about their future. With its counter roadside Venus and Apollo will go straight to the emerging Russian elite mansions, which, like any other before it, culturally legitimized by copying the classics. Historically, such a copy - from the Roman attempts to master the Greek sculpture of the twentieth century to the Empire - example of rudeness and bad taste in style became signs of the times, and then moved to a museum.

Source : Press Release Gallery "Eye»