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18/9/2009

Tim Parchikov

Glaz Gallery, Moscow

Glaz gallery is proud to announce a new project of photographer Tim Parchikov "Peripheral Vision". This exhibition will be a part of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Tim Parchikov was shooting "Peripheral vision" during several years, visiting the bedroom districts of Moscow in winters. This project is greatly different from everything he has done before. Photographs from "Peripheral Vision" contain very poor palette while the pictures made by Tim in Rome, Paris and Venice attract one’s attention especially with outstanding feeling of color. Bright walls of Burano, the beaches of French Riviera, the fields of Tuscany on one hand and stereotyped apartment buildings, transformer units and grayish snowy empty parking lots on the other hand. It would be difficult to find more different models.

"Peripheral Vision" is dedicated to Moscow districts, which grew basically during last thirty years. All this time the city has been swallowing its own boundaries and losing its own shape, spreading out with typical suburbs. Even the buildings that just have been built don’t look new anymore, impetuous unnatural growth turned into early aging.

From pedestrian’s viewpoint the lay out of the suburbs often seems illogical and chaotic but in plan or in Google Earth one can see the strict symmetry of these district, which unexpectedly makes them similar to the Egyptian of Aztec cathedrals. Sleepy atmosphere, winter melancholy oddly combine the geometry of panel buildings with Bruegel’s images.

From the beginning of 1990’s the pulse of Moscow became more rapid, the city went through dramatic mutation, but in the first place it had to deal with the downtown, which became elusive and in different meanings artificial. The real, contrast felling of the city is left in periphery, which changes much slower and in a more natural way. These changes are not as distinct, as brutal, it’s harder to see them, but it’s possible to record them.

Tim Parchikov was born in Moscow. He graduated from Russian Institute of Cinematography and finished the High Courses of Movie Directors and Script Writers.

The prize winner of the "Silver camera" contest (2005). Personal exhibitions: "Suitcase", Moscow Museum of Architecture (2006); "Tim Parchikov in Café des Artistes", Moscow (2007); "Plastification", Glaz gallery, Moscow (2008); "Europe, Stop", China (2008); "Associations", Manezh, Moscow (2009). Selected group exhibitions: "Sport in photography", New Manezhe, Moscow (1998); "Krasnodar today", Moscow Photobiennale-2000 (2000); "Russian vision on Europe", Centre d’Art Rouge Cloitre, Bruxelles (2005); "Around the movie "4" of Ilya Khrzhanovsky", Moscow Museum of Conemporary Art (2005); "Russian vision on Europe", Moscow Museum of Architecture (2006); "Sardinia, the trace of God", Na Solyanke gallery, Moscow (2007); "Russian vision on Europe", Galeria Torreao Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon (2007); "Photoquai. First international photographic biennale, Paris (2007); "The power of fashion", video, State Russian museum, Saint-Petersburg (2008); "Russian vision on Spain", Big Manezhe, Moscow (2008); Art Moscow, Glaz gallery, Moscow (2008); "Russian vision on France", ambassy of the EU, Moscow (2008); "Ded Moroz is living", Triumph gallery, Moscow (2008); "On the Road: Petr Lovigin, Tim Parchikov, Georgy Pervov", Passage de Redz, Paris (2009); "On the Road: Petr Lovigin, Tim Parchikov, Georgy Pervov", Ashdod Art Museum Monart Center, Ashdod, Israel (2009).

Image: 2006 Moscow, Yuzhnoe Chertanovo - edition of 5 75x90

Opening reception: Saturday, September 19, 2009 7pm-9pm

Glaz Gallery
Bersenevskaya emb., 14/5 Moscow
Open hours:
Tuesday-Friday 12pm-7pm
Saturday 1pm-6pm

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