“Pobeda” gallery for the first time took part in the festival Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam in September 2013. One of the world’s most prestigious photography museums FOAM is the organizer of the Unseen. The festival has a distinctive concept: it shows previously inknown projects from young and advanced photographers. Pobeda gallery introduced three new project from gallery artists : “Dancer” by Alexey Kiselev, “Transfiguration” by Gosha Rubchinsky and “From the Memory Of A Ceremony” Anna Skladmann. These projects are exhibited in “Pobeda” gallery today :
Alexey Kiselev
Taking into account the difference between the abstract and intuitive, Kiselev never asks the authenticity of the medium. Kiselev’s casual images or “random shots” offers a new way of contemplation of things and shows the attitude of the photographer to personal memory. The “Dancer” series is one of the constituent parts of the book Naughty Noughties, Kiselev created with Danila Polyakov.
Alexey Kiselev was born in Yekaterinburg in 1976 and has lived and worked in Moscow since 2004. He explains his career choice as suddenly deciding one day to become a photographer and spending his remaining money on a Zenit and Photoshop magazine. The artist doesn’t question the trustworthiness of his surroundings and focuses on the distinction between the abstract and intuitive. In this way he offers his audience a new manner of contemplation as well as exposing his own attitude to personal memory.
Gosha Rubchinsky
“Transfiguration” series was presented on the island of “New Holland” in 2011, in St. Petersburg. The space was part of a larger project of life on the island that combines a gallery, workshop and a place for skateboarding. The book and the movie with a special musical soundtrack are the result of his residency. The “Transfiguration” series shows Gosha’s view of the post-Soviet youth culture in Russia.
Gosha Rubchinskiy is a fashion designer, photographer and film maker as well as maker of elegant sportswear inspired by the romance of youth, Russia’s religious roots and the clash between the Russian post-soviet mentality and growing up in a country undergoing huge political, economical and cultural change. Using his photography, film and fashion work almost like a Gesamtkunstwerk, Rubchinskiy hopes to bring the post-Soviet generation to the foreground in an honest, new light.
Anna Skladmann
“The images reflect briefly the small little world of people who have created a common “house” for the summer. These memories , as well as the original Polaroids have one thing in common , their paint will fade , the horizons will be blurred , but the memories remain remarkably nostalgic . Through the line of memory and photography this study is a means to experiment. My practice for this series was to edit , scan, and reprint. My aim was to emphasize the idea that the identity of an image is not limited to its type or to its content.
Anna Skladman, born in 1986 in Bremen, Germany. Anna is a freelance photographer that now lives and works between London and Moscow. She graduated with a B.F.A in Photography from the Parsons School of Design in 2008 for which she studied in Paris and New York.
The moments of joy that Skladmann captures and inserts in her Polaroids, as if with a butterfly net, evoke those stirring memories that each indidual has in his innermost being: country promenades, comradely sojourns, a walk in the sunset . Akin to the day’s first sun rays, these images rouse one from gloom and unlock an inner vision.
Unseen
Alexey Kiselev, Gosha Rubchinsky, Anna Skladmann
From November 21st to December 11th, 2013
Pobeda gallery
Red Square 3, GUM, 3rd line, 3rd floor
Moscow
Russia
Public hours: 10:00–22:00, everyday
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