Ludmila Belova. Save As…

Ludmila Belova. Save As…

Ludmila Belova. Save As… (video installation, objects).
Catalogue. Co-organized with Anna Akhmatova Museum (Fontanny Dom). St. Petersburg. Russia. Digital archives seem to be the best way of preserving national heritage. International museum world has been obsessed with the idea of transferring museum exhibits into digital format lately. The original is too fragile and unreliable, while in the digital database it becomes virtually everlasting. Continue reading

Alexandra Vertinskaya. Venice

Alexandra Vertinskaya. Venice

Alexandra Vertinskaya (Moscow). Venice (photography, graphics).
Curator- Nikolay Palazhchenko. When I recall a beautiful city, whether St. Petersburg, Paris or Venice, it is never classic postcards views that come to my mind. However splendid those Eiffel tower or Palace square are, I rather remember some quiet side street, unusual shop window or a tiny church. Continue reading

Early Novikov. Timur Novikov’s works of 80th

Early Novikov. Timur Novikov’s works of 80th

Early Novikov (painting, graphics). Timur Novikov’s works of 80th.
Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. Book: Timur Petrovich Novikov. Lectures. St. Petersburg: D137 Gallery, the New Academy of Fine Arts, 2003. Memory day for Timur Novikov, 23 May, and the celebration of the city’s tercentenary are symbolically close: for quarter of century, from 1978 to 2002, Timur was modeling the art history of Leningrad/St. Petersburg. Continue reading

Denis Yegelsky. Russian Ballet

Denis Yegelsky. Russian Ballet

Denis Yegelsky. Russian Ballet (painting, graphics, gummiarabic print).
Booklet. Curator – Maria Savelieva. Denis Yegelsky’s Russian Ballet exhibition at Gallery D137 is a celebration of such stars of the Russian ballet as Natalia Makarova, Alla Sizova, Natalia Dudinskaya, Rudolf Nureyev and Konstantin Sergeyev. A professor of the New Academy of Fine Arts, Yegelsky addresses the photography of Mikhail Gershman, which captures the elegant plastics of famous ballet dancers in elegant images frozen forever in a moment in time. Continue reading