Exhibition "Contemporary Photography of Latin America" in the Exhibition Hall of the State Museum and Exhibition Center "ROSIZO"
Automatic translateThe international festival of photography PHOTOVISA was first held in Krasnodar in 2008. In 2014, the festival was held for the sixth time in an international format: artists and photographers from 22 countries took part in 37 exhibitions; expositions were deployed at the exhibition sites of Krasnodar, Anapa, Novorossiysk. In addition to the exhibition program, the festival includes a program of lectures and master classes, a multimedia and video program, a portfolio of revisions, and a photography contest.
The festival is held under the auspices of the Iris Art Development and Support Foundation, the Garage Museum of Modern Art, and the ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center of the Russian Ministry of Culture.
In 2014-2015, ROSIZO displays four exhibitions in its exhibition halls in Moscow, representing photographers participating in the PHOTOVISA festival of different years.
The first exhibition, held in March 2014, was dedicated to the theme of sports and the city in the work of photographers from Argentina, Great Britain, Israel and the Republic of Korea. The second exhibition introduces the Moscow public to the art of photography in Latin America. The third one will introduce festival participants from the USA and Canada. Fourth - works of authors from Australia. Show schedule details - on sites www.rosizo.ru and www.photovisa.ru
“MODERN PHOTO OF LATIN AMERICA”
The second exhibition from the series “PHOTOVISA in Moscow”
Alejandro Almaraz, Argentina; Irina Werning, Argentina;
Andres Wertheim, Argentina; Jose Giniz, Brazil;
Calais, Brazil; Chago Coelho, Brazil;
Claudio Meneghetti, Brazil; Liliana Molero, Uruguay;
David Munoz, Argentina;
Jose Pilone, Uruguay; Ian Smith, Mexico
Modern photography of Latin America - terra incognita for the Russian audience. Now he has the opportunity to compare his ideas about Latin American culture, formed by the reading of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, the music of Antoniu Carlos Jobim, the painting of David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, with how this culture expresses itself in photography. The works of contemporary photographers from Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico differ among themselves, as the cultures of these countries themselves, similar from afar, but significantly different in direct contact with them.
“Presidents” series by Argentine photographer Alejandro Almaraz - commentary on discussions about national identity. The author, using the latest digital technologies, conducted a “physiognomic statistical” study of the top officials of 20 states, choosing recognizable, repeating features in the guise of the leaders of each country over the past hundred years
The Brazilian Calé is from Rio de Janeiro. He, a resident of a metropolis with a twelve-million-strong population, is plunged into thinking about confronting the urban-leveling personality leveling aggression. White, faceless, dissolving in urban neighborhoods silhouettes of people are an image of a person’s resistance to the pressure of the city, a metaphor for the inner concentration of a city dweller in an effort to regain himself.
Claudio Meneghetti is also from Brazil. He turns to the life of his compatriots who have no shelter and work. He took off all his heroes twice: in the evening, when they came to an overnight stay, and in the morning, after a night of respite, in the struggle for survival. The author says so about his series: "This is an essay on how human attention and care transform us all - and even the most disadvantaged."
The reception of the “pair portrait” is also characteristic of another Brazilian, Chago Coelho (Tiago Coelho) . In his project “Language of clothes” he captured people of “inconspicuous professions” - waiters, cleaners. In one portrait - they are at their workplaces, in their work clothes. But on the other - they are already shot as characters from the fashion magazine. These moments of miraculous transformation have changed the fate of some of the characters: scouts of modeling agencies brought them to the podium.
“Gray Man” is a project by the Uruguayan photographer and video artist José Pilone . He has been working on this project for many years, traveling the world in the image of “a man like everyone else” - in a suit, in a tie - and without attributes. Neither time nor space has power over the routine of every day a gray person - from his birth to death.
Liliana Molero from Uruguay is the author of landscapes shot in the fishing village “somewhere in South America”. Her landscapes are poetic and miniature, full of the fragile lightness of the haze and the attractive harmony of color assonances.
The sea is perceived quite differently in the black and white landscapes of the Brazilian José Diniz . It is expressive and intense, waging its eternal duel with a person invading it.
The desert landscapes of David Muñoz sound like a tragic echo of the struggle between man and the elements. For many years now he has been returning to the shores of the salt lake Epecuen in the heart of Argentina to touch the secret of the once flooded and deserted once prosperous quiet town.
A Mexican traveler and scientist, photographer Jan Smith , warns of other kinds of tragedies - carried by modern civilization. He, who has been in the vicinity of many nuclear power plants that have survived accidents, leaves us alone with landscapes - unremarkable, if not for the toxic glow of flowers.
The Argentine photographer Andrés Wertheim invites us to the magical and mysterious world of museum space. In his works, the heroes of museum canvases overcome the boundaries of the boundaries set by them, descend into the halls and, having come to life unknown to their guests, dominate their possessions, contemplating their loyal subjects - the audience.
Other boundaries - the boundaries of time - are overcome by the heroes of yet another Argentine photographer - Irina Werning . The characters of her diptychs, for an instant captured by the author, are transferred to their childhood, accurately copying after many years the poses, gestures and situations of their own photographs of bygone times. The joy of childhood has returned - albeit for a second…
The opening of the exhibition will take place on December 18, 2014 at 17.00 in the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation at the address: 48 Lublin Street, building 1.
The exhibition runs until January 18, 2015, daily, except Monday, from 11.00 to 20.00; Sunday - from 11.00 to 18.00.