Seeing Through a Glass Darkly
dal 5/10/2011 al 27/10/2011
Segnalato da
Ramunas Danisevicius
Dmitri Konradt
Igor Mukhin
Vaclovas Straukas
Antanas Sutkus
Andrey Tarkovsky
Rimaldas Viksraitis
5/10/2011
Seeing Through a Glass Darkly
John McAslan + Partners, London
Photographs from Anya Stonelake/White Space Gallery collection. With works by seven artists from Lithuania and Russia, the exhibition presents an unofficial history of photographic work taken in Eastern Europe from 1960s to the present day. Over 40 meditative images are gathered in this exhibition.
Photographs by Ramunas Danisevicius, Dmitri Konradt, Igor Mukhin, Vaclovas Straukas, Antanas Sutkus, Andrey Tarkovsky, Rimaldas Viksraitis
Seeing Through a Glass Darkly is photographic exhibition of 7 artists from Lithuania and Russia. It presents an unofficial history of photographic work taken in Eastern Europe from 1960s to the present day. Over 40 meditative photographs are gathered in this exhibition, by some of the most important yet not fully discovered artists from Lithuania and Russia including Igor Mukhin, Antanas Sutkus, Andrey Tarkovsky and Rimaldas Viksraitis.
Based on the words of the Apostle Paul: “For Now we see through a glass darkly” this exhibition reminds us of the political uncertainty, as in Igor Mukhin’s Moscow series taken during the coup of 1990s, and Andrey Tarkovsky’s polaroids from Italy at the start of his exile in 1980s. Behind the first layer of straight photo reportage, Ramunas Danisevicius uncovers a psychological portrait of today’s Lithuania. Antanas Sutkus’s 1960s striking images from an orphanage for blind children are full of sadness and longing for truth, as in Plato’s allegory of the cave, the reality is perceived partially, only seeing the shadows and hearing the echoes.
Focusing on photographs taken in unfamiliar places, ranging from Dmitri Konradt’s lost courtyards of St Petersburg to Vaclovas’s Straukas’s foggy landscapes of small Lithuanian villages and Rimaldas Viksraitis’s desolate farms, Seeing Through a Glass Darkly projects a deeply poetic visual perspective of life in Lithuania and Russia bypassing ideology and official history.
With thanks to Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and a private collector.
Image: Antanas Sutkus, Blind Pioneer. Kaunas. 1962. Gelatin Silver print
© Antanas Sutkus. Courtesy: Anya Stonelake
Talk: Thursday 13 October 6.30 pm
Antanas Sutkus will be in conversation with Sue Steward
Preview: Thursday 6 October, 6-9 pm
Anya Stonelake at William Road Gallery @ John McAslan + Partners
7-9 William Road, Euston, London NW1 3ER
open Monday to Friday 8.30am – 6.30pm. Saturdays by appointment
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