In 2010, the Galería Rita Castellote moved to the trendy neighborhood of Chueca – Alonso Martinez. Today it presents a new program focusing exclusively on contemporary photography. The techniques, formats and results may vary, but the common force that unites these artists is the constant search for a “complete” experience of life with the photographic image and the reflection of the subject in the images.
Poetry of Serendipity – Gueorgui Pinkhassov
“The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire of not to go where one has already been.”Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Right at the end of the film “The wind will carry us”(1999) by Abbas Kiarostami a short conversation takes place between the protagonist and a Doctor who appears just to drive the protagonist to the nearest town, and perhaps to his destiny:
- Doctor, what is your specialization?
- I don´t have one. Then I can examine the entire body. If I do specialize, I would be limited.
Looking at the complete works by Gueorgui Pinkhassov my memory always takes me back to that conversation.
Although Pinkhassov has created most of his works in the second half of the XX Century, his is first among artists in the XXI Century No repetition (says Pinkhassov: “Repetition takes us to servility, to conformity”), a thematic as well as compositional anarchy.
Pinkhassov focuses his objective on the poetry of light, on Photography itself, on its original etymology “draw (Graphis) with light (Phos)”. His wonderings around the world are manifested through snapshots he captures in seemingly nonchalant manner, but with a clear intention; to give expression to details he perceives like nobody else. He converts subtleties – lost in the day-by-day passage – into cosmic beauty, into his personal universe.
That universe is made up of his wonderings and his praise of nothingness, qualities that set his work apart. Those traits are the ones that astonish us when we are kids discovering the world, or when a kid discovers that same world to us when we thought we already knew it.
Life and death, light and darkness. Just poles in a same oneness.
By Horacio Basilicus
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