Exhibition "New Landscape" Automatic translate

On August 23, 2019 at 18 o’clock in the Gallery of Modern Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan, Karl Marx St., 57) the exhibition project “New Landscape”, first presented at the Art Gallery of the Yeltsin Center, opens

Artists: Alexander Gronsky, Valery Nistratov, Sergey Novikov, Lisa Factor, Maxim Sher, Anastasia Zeider, Peter Antonov.

Curators: Anastasia Zeider, Peter Antonov.

The exhibition "New Landscape" is the first large-scale generalization of photographic studies of the landscape, comprehending the new Russian everyday life. Often, the word "landscape" refers to the types of nature untouched by man, but such a nature does not actually exist. In any landscape you can find traces of human intervention. This is the vast expanses of Siberia, bearing in itself the imprints of industrial development, and what we see every day, but prefer not to notice - shuttle taxis, shopping centers, blank fences of the private sector.

Over the past 25 years, tremendous changes have taken place in Russia. The transition from industrial to post-industrial society in our country coincided with the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, from the Soviet state to the post-Soviet one. All these social changes were especially pronounced in the landscape. Projects collected at the exhibition testify to the transformation of landscape and culture, unprecedented in intensity and scale.

The geography of the exhibition projects is the entire territory of modern Russia. The works of Lisa Factor turn to Siberia as a space, partially mastered, but abandoned again. Alexander Gronsky in the project “Less than one” considers remote and inaccessible regions of Russia, where the population density is often less than one person per square kilometer. "Documents of nature", shot by Valery Nistratov along the borders of the country’s main metropolis, show examples of the invasion of the new economic system in nature. The projects of Maxim Sher and Peter Antonov explore the emergence of a new everyday life on the example of the urban environment. In Sergey Novikov’s Grassroots series, the contemporary Russian landscape is becoming a grandiose backdrop for amateur football matches. “Arcadia” by Anastasia Zeider, like Valery Nistratov’s project, considers the interaction of man and nature, but instead of contradictions, shows the paradoxes of coexistence and how nature develops spaces that were not originally intended for it.

The authors represented at the exhibition were widely exhibited in Russia and abroad, among them - winners of such awards in the field of photography and contemporary art as World Press Photo, Foam Paul Huf Award, and the Innovation Prize.

A public program dedicated to the study of the environment, everyday life, modern photography and art is timed to coincide with the exhibition.

The “New Landscape” project was implemented with the support of the Presidential Center B. N. Yeltsin Fund and was first presented at the Yeltsin Center Art Gallery in Yekaterinburg. The art gallery of the Yeltsin Center is a space for temporary exhibitions, where visitors are offered artistic practices and curatorial projects representing the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. During 2018, the exhibition was displayed at the PERMM Museum of Modern Art in Perm, the Museum Complex named after I. Ya. Slovtsova in Tyumen, the Museum Center “Peace Square” in Krasnoyarsk, in 2019 - at the Ekaterina Culture Foundation in Moscow.

The exhibition runs until September 22, 2019.

Biographies of the authors:

Peter Antonov was born in Moscow in 1977. Since 2008, he has completely focused on photography. The works of Peter Antonov were exhibited in Russia, Great Britain, Denmark, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Syria, USA, Sweden and were nominated for Prix Pictet, Paul Huf, PDN30 prizes. In 2016, photos from the Ruins series were included in the short list of Sony World Photography Awards nominees.
www.petrantonov.com

Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn. Since 1998 works as a professional photographer. Photographic projects of Alexander Gronsky are successfully exhibited around the world, and the works are in museum and private collections. Photos of Gronsky were awarded the Foam Paul Huf Award, Aperture Portfolio Prize, World Press Photo, Lingof Young Photographer Award, Innovation, were nominated for the Kandinsky Prize.
www.alexandergronsky.com

Valery Nistratov was born in Moscow in 1973. He began his career as a photographer at the age of 17; since 1994, he has been working on his own art projects. Nistratov’s photographs were exhibited in Russia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the USA, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, China and other countries. Valery Nistratov leads a workshop of documentary photography at the School of Photography and Multimedia. Rodchenko.
www.valerinistratov.com

Sergey Novikov was born in 1979 in Cheboksary. Has the education of a photo editor and filmmaker. Since 2009, engaged in project photography. Sergey Novikov’s projects were exhibited as part of personal and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Author’s photo books were nominated for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles, Photobookfest Dummy Award, DOCfield Dummy Award, Fiebre Photobook Festival, Dummy Award Encontros da Imagem.
sergeynovikov.com

Lisa Factor was born in Moscow, lives and works in the USA. Curator, photographer and producer, founder of Screen, a company producing innovative documentary projects, founder of the Objective Reality Foundation, co-founder of Agency. Photographer.ru. Curator of more than twenty exhibitions in Russia, USA, France, UAE. Twice winner of the Howard Chapnick Award for the Promotion of Photojournalism, member of the jury of international competitions, including the World Press Photo multimedia competition. Photographed since the mid-1990s, her works were exhibited in Russia, Spain, the UK and the USA.
www.lizafaktor.com

Maxim Sher was born in 1975 in Leningrad, studied linguistics at the Kemerovo and Strasbourg universities, in 2006 he took up photography. In 2008, he was nominated for the KLM Paul Huf Award, in 2013 he became a finalist of the Cord Prize photographic award. The author of personal and participant in group exhibitions in Russia, Austria, Italy, England.
www.maxsher.com

Anastasia Zeider was born in 1983 in Karelia, graduated from the faculty of photo correspondents in St. Petersburg in 2009. Prizewinner of the Silver Camera photo contest, finalist of the Kandinsky Prize in the Young Artist nomination. Participant of numerous group exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including Russian Interiors (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, as part of the 2014 Biennale), Muscovy. Research ”(Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, Moscow), Rencontres d’Arles festival (France).
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