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

Edward Lucie-Smith. Nudes and Landscapes (photography)

Edward Lucie-Smith. Nudes and Landscapes (photography)

Edward Lucie-Smith (London, Great Britain). Nudes and Landscapes (photography).

Booklet. The exhibition at D137 Gallery consisted largely of photographs made on commission for BBC television, for the first in a series of programmes entitled ‘Taboo’. The ‘Taboo’ discussed in this particular programme was nudity, especially male nudity, and I was filmed as I created the images using two models [who had never met each other previously] in a studio. Continue reading

Timur Novikov. Flying and Sailing

Timur Novikov. Flying and Sailing

Timur Novikov. Flying and Sailing (engraving, hand-stitching).

The fathomless skies are reflected in ten square miles of water in St Petersburg. This enormous mirror dissolves all the details, sending them straight to the depths of eternity, which returns their images and symbols. It is then that we see the large in the small. Ships, planes, birds, people and buildings – the entire essence of a body coasting through time, across the smooth surface of the sky and water. Continue reading