Valentin Samarin Contacts. Paris, 2003
gelatin silver print SANKI. 54 x 45
Source: Press Release Gallery DiDi

Gallery DiDi, May 2 - June 2, 2013
St. Petersburg, VO, Bolshoy Prospect 62
www.didigallery.com

Petersburg collector's art gallery DiDi invites you to an exhibition of photographs of Quantum Silver "Art SANKI» legendary Photographer non-conformist Valentin Valentin Samarin , which will be held on Thursday, May 2, at 19.00.

Art SANKI, by definition, the author - is the mystery of the old silver photography, metamorphosis energy projections that are invisible in normal photography, metaphysics projections of light and shadow world of human spirituality. The word is borrowed from sanki "Sans-Energy" (1974), a book of Moscow University Professor N. Kvashury of ancient Chinese philosophy. This phenomenon reveals the concept of invisible energy potentials of Time and Space define our earthly existence.

Valentin Samarin (Til Maria Valgrek) - Russian photographer, artist, metaphysician, who proposed in 1970 the opportunity another vision of reality, which he called SANKI and presented in his photographs silver gelatin print. Member of various cultural events in Leningrad, Moscow and Paris. In December 1956, the KGB arrested for taking part in a discussion on Picasso (Picasso exhibition at the Hermitage). In 1960 - a prison, special psychiatric hospital (with the Flyers). In the 1970 - member of the Leningrad resistance nonconformist artists. Since 1981 - the forced emigration to Paris and active exhibiting (more than 50 exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Munich and dr.gorodah). In 2004 he returned to Russia. For 35 years (10 - in Leningrad and 25 - in Paris) made 20,000 negatives and 5,000 photographs.

Valentin Samarin Metaportret number 3 Leningrad, 1979, Paris, 2000 gelatin silver print SANKI. 55.5 x 45 Source: Press Release Gallery DiDi

Valentin Samarin nonlocal formulation Paris, 1999 gelatin silver print SANKI. 58.5 x 48 Source: Press Release Gallery DiDi

Valentin Samarin Exhibition Leo Kropivnitskogo workshop Samarin Street. Decembrists. Leningrad, 1979 gelatin silver print SANKI. 24,5 x 34,5 Source: Press Release Gallery DiDi

Valentin Samarin Joseph Brodsky in Paris. Paris, 1991 gelatin silver print SANKI. 28 x 38,5 Source: Press Release Gallery DiDi

Source : Press Release Gallery DiDi