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17/7/2012

Contemporary photography from Rosphoto Collection

Rosphoto State Russian Center for Photography, St. Petersburg

Collecting contemporary photography is one of the priorities of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre Rosphoto. Since 2002, Rosphoto has been especially active in expanding the contemporary part of its photography collection. The importance of preservation of photographic heritage pertinent to the history of St.-Petersburg determines the strategy of collecting mostly St.-Petersburg authors. At the same time, in collecting contemporary photography, Rosphoto selects works of certain masters from other places in Russia, the ones who have greatly influenced the development of photography in Russia since early 1980s.

The works in the exhibition represent just a small part of Rosphoto collection. Embracing the period from 1970s to 1990s in the history of Soviet/Russian photography, these photographs introduce to the audience a variety of creative approaches within the aesthetical and formalist search of the last quarter of XX century, as well as the reaction to the social and cultural situation in the country. The exhibition outlines a wide range of photograhic genres of this complicated period, at the same time emphasizing the similarities and differences in the work of photographers from Moscow, Kirov, Cheboksary, Nizhny Novgorod, St.Petersburg.

The exhibition includes over 150 artworks of 40 authors, many of them doubtlessly belonging to the gold reserves of the Russian photographic heritage. Among the authors represented in the exhibition are Alexander Slyusarev, Vladimir Antoshenkov, Vladimir Syomin, Stanislav Yavorsky, Gunar Binde, Georgy Poylov, Boris Smelov, Ilya Narovlyansky, Boris Kudryakov, Nikolay Kulebyakin, Sergey Leontyev, Igor Mukhin and other outstanding Russian photographers.


Until July 29 2012
Vladimir Tarasov
Sounds of memory

The exhibition of the legendary percussionist Vladimir Tarasov at ROSPHOTO embraces audio and visual installations created within the period of the past two years.
The title of the artwork, Something Going On in Front of the Sea (2011) refers to Tarasov’s first solo disc, named after the work of Yuri Dyshlenko, the outstanding artist who was born in Leningrad and tragically died in New York in 1995. Tarasov defines this work as dedication to Yuri Dyshlenko and a version of his painting.

Sarah Flohr
Moon at Fruitridge

The artist shows her installation Moon at Fruitridge (2012) dedicated to the nature of California and, more globally, to the problems of ecology. Sarah Flohr says about her project: “Reconciling immediate space—that which is directly around one—and backfilling it with places and things that seemingly disappear or are fugitive, the room of suspended objects touches into the unreliable quality of looking forward and back”.

Front building exhibition hall 2nd floor
ROSPHOTO ul. Bolshaya Morskaya, 35 Saint-Petersburg
Hours: daily 11-19

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