Arsen Revazov’s exhibition "Invisible Light" Automatic translate

In the West wing of the New Tretyakov Gallery opens a large-scale exhibition of the works of modern photographer Arsen Revazov “Invisible Light”, most of which will be shown for the first time in Russia.

The exposition will include about 100 works by Arsen Revazov of different years. The first section will present the project "Red-beautiful." This is the only project of a journalist, public figure, popular blogger, one of the “Runet fathers” Anton Nosik (1966–2017) in the field of contemporary art, in which Anton curated the exhibition of his old friend Arsen Revazov. The Red-Slash / Beautiful exhibition was presented in Venice in 2017 during the 57th International Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Infrared photographs printed in red and subjected to author’s deformation reflect the artist’s deeply personal perception of the infinity of the concept of “Russia” - from the cottage interior to the complex three-line panorama of the big city, taken from a high point. “The very concept of conveying the image of a beautiful and deformed country through infrared, red printing, turning a flat paper sheet into voluminous and literary quotes images was born during one of our conversations with Anton, and I was happy when he agreed to become the curator of this exhibition, held in his beloved city, in Venice, ”says Revazov.

The second section of the exhibition will consist of 100 × 150 cm works shot in different cities of the world using infrared photography using double exposure technique.

The third section of the exhibition, created with the participation of the architect and artist Alexander Brodsky, will be devoted to Venice. The space formed by Brodsky, supplemented by a multiple video projection of the works of Arsen Revazov, refers to the image of the Grand Canal. Three monumental infrared photo panoramas, as well as more than 30 architectural and landscape landscapes captured on a wide-format infrared film using a black filter and printed in the size of 40 × 50 cm, will make up the fourth section of the exhibition.

The technique of infrared photography, in which all the work of Arsen Revazov was completed, requires lengthy preparation for shooting and subsequent complex processing of frames. Scales of prints range from small cabinet photographs to gigantic panoramas: carefully constructed landscape compositions and laconic architectural landscapes give the impression of monumentality in any format.

“The most important question that I have to answer all the time: why do I shoot in infrared? My answer: because it is invisible. I take pictures of familiar objects created by nature and the human mind in a light that we will never see. Therefore, the world in my works seems to be one and not the same. This world has black sky and water. If the sun falls on trees and grass, then they become snow-white. In a word, I’m shooting an unobvious world, ”the artist explains.

Arsen Revazov was born in Moscow, emigrated to Israel, but returned to Russia in the mid-1990s. Since 1991, successfully working in the field of advertising and technology. In the same period, Revazov began his literary career: in the first half of the 1990s he published a collection of poems and several stories in Israel, wrote for Russian periodicals, and in 2005 published the novel Loneliness-12, which became a bestseller in Russia. Since the early 2000s, Arsen Revazov has been successfully engaged in photography, which he became interested in back in his school years. Exhibitions of works by Arsen Revazov took place in art galleries in Russia, Italy and the UK.