Alexandra Vertinskaya. Venice

Alexandra Vertinskaya. Venice

Alexandra Vertinskaya (Moscow). Venice (photography, graphics).
Curator- Nikolay Palazhchenko. When I recall a beautiful city, whether St. Petersburg, Paris or Venice, it is never classic postcards views that come to my mind. However splendid those Eiffel tower or Palace square are, I rather remember some quiet side street, unusual shop window or a tiny church. Continue reading

Early Novikov. Timur Novikov’s works of 80th

Early Novikov. Timur Novikov’s works of 80th

Early Novikov (painting, graphics). Timur Novikov’s works of 80th.
Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. Book: Timur Petrovich Novikov. Lectures. St. Petersburg: D137 Gallery, the New Academy of Fine Arts, 2003. Memory day for Timur Novikov, 23 May, and the celebration of the city’s tercentenary are symbolically close: for quarter of century, from 1978 to 2002, Timur was modeling the art history of Leningrad/St. Petersburg. Continue reading

Denis Yegelsky. Russian Ballet

Denis Yegelsky. Russian Ballet

Denis Yegelsky. Russian Ballet (painting, graphics, gummiarabic print).
Booklet. Curator – Maria Savelieva. Denis Yegelsky’s Russian Ballet exhibition at Gallery D137 is a celebration of such stars of the Russian ballet as Natalia Makarova, Alla Sizova, Natalia Dudinskaya, Rudolf Nureyev and Konstantin Sergeyev. A professor of the New Academy of Fine Arts, Yegelsky addresses the photography of Mikhail Gershman, which captures the elegant plastics of famous ballet dancers in elegant images frozen forever in a moment in time. Continue reading

Edward Lucie-Smith. Nudes and Landscapes (photography)

Edward Lucie-Smith. Nudes and Landscapes (photography)

Edward Lucie-Smith (London, Great Britain). Nudes and Landscapes (photography).

Booklet. The exhibition at D137 Gallery consisted largely of photographs made on commission for BBC television, for the first in a series of programmes entitled ‘Taboo’. The ‘Taboo’ discussed in this particular programme was nudity, especially male nudity, and I was filmed as I created the images using two models [who had never met each other previously] in a studio. Continue reading