Light painting from Holland in Nizhny Novgorod

On October 26, an unusual exhibition of photographs and video installations created by Dutch artists was opened at the center of modern art in Nizhny Novgorod. The exposition will last two weeks, during which the residents of the city will be able to get acquainted with talents from the Netherlands closer.

The central idea is a reflection of the transience of all that exists and the transience of time, typical of 17th-century art. Artists, fascinated by the Baroque era and the vinitas style, recreate typical plots of the past in a modern manner, reviving them and making them closer to our century.

The Dutch sought in photographic works for complete identity with outstanding landscapes and still lifes of the 17th century. And they focused not so much on the objects that got into the frame, but on their symbolic meaning. Almost every photograph has a skull reminiscent of the inevitability of death. Withering flowers, rotting vegetables and fruits are all symbols of the fact that pleasures cannot last forever and that the sweetest fruit can turn into rot at any moment.

Eve Istr