Exhibition "VARIATIONS OF WHITE" Automatic translate
с 8 Октября
по 8 НоябряДом-музей Ф. И. Шаляпина
ул. Графтио, 2–Б
Санкт-Петербург
October 8 at 17.00 in the creative space of the Chaliapin Art Flat House-Museum of F.I. Chaliapin will open the exhibition "Variations of white" by a young St. Petersburg photographer Katerina Kravtsova. Inspired by the romantic “white ballet”, the artist creates images of a pure dance, devoid of signs of time and place, gravity and black shadows.
Air dances, a plotless basis, ballerinas in white tunics, with wings behind their back, depicting fairies, forest spirits, sylphs and jeeps… The term “white ballet” (ballet blanc) was coined by none other than Theophile Gautier in the 19th century. The genre itself was formed earlier, at the dawn of the era of romanticism, and was perfected later, at the time of Fokine and Balanchine. Nowadays, “white ballet” is the embodiment of pure dance, ballet par excellence, an ideal form, not burdened with too specific content. So the “white ballet" appears in the works of the photographer Katerina Kravtsova.
In the White Variations series, the photographer uses the high key technique, which deprives the image of deep black shadows and creates the feeling that the tonality of the photo consists only of shades of gray. Some of the photos were printed by hand using the silver bromine printing method. The classic way of printing film photographs has a special aesthetics - the photographs are as if drawn in fine pencil technique.
Katerina Kravtsova, originally from Buryatia, graduated from the Academy of Russian Ballet. AND I. Vaganova, majoring in History and Theory of Choreographic Art, defended her thesis “Domestic Ballet Photography of the 19th – 21st Centuries”. She worked at the Russian Drama Theater in Ulan-Ude, at the Boris Eifman Ballet Theater, and is currently a full-time photographer at the Alexandrinsky Theater. Published in professional theater publications in Moscow and St. Petersburg (Petersburg Theater Magazine, Theater, Scene, Pro Dance).