Andrej Krementschouk
No Direction Home
Photographie
&
Ira Vinokurova
Was ist für Sie das wahre Leben?
Photographie
07.11.2009 – 10.01.2010
Ausstellungseröffnung: Freitag, den 06.11.2009, von 19.00 – 21.00 Uhr
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Andrej Krementschouk
No Direction Home
Photography
&
Ira Vinokurova
What means the real life to you?
Photography
Start 7th. November 2009 End 10th January 2010
The Clara Maria Sels Gallery in Düsseldorf is pleased to present two extraordinary stances within young Russian photography. The current exhibition shows the latest works and series by Andrej Krementschouk (born 1973 in Gorky/RUS) and Ira Vinokurova (born 1975 in Kaliningrad/RUS).
Ira Vinokurova graduated from Thomas Ruff’s class with the Meisterschüler distinction and has been studying with Christopher Williams since 2008. The artist is known for her sequences of “portraits in interiors”.
The newly completed series Greetings for every day treats objects of everyday life, shown in a profound, and at the same time, comical manner, betraying a black humour. In this context the individual inhabits a space between drama and comedy.
An explicit discussion about ‘real life’ takes place in Andrej Krementschouk’s photographic series. The photographer’s book, in wich his autobiographical works collectively entitled No Direction Home are published, recently won the German Photo Book Award 2010.
Also the gallery is showing his newly made series…till death, 2007 – 2009, an ensemble of several smaller photographs, comprised by grave racks.
These works gain their documentary character through the artist’s preoccupation with adult orphans who shared a dilapidated and now burned down building near Moscow. These photographs are insightful and lively works, a memento to their subjects who almost all perished during the fire.
The exhibition offers an authentic insight into traditional Russian ‘real life’ in all the ambivalences of its tragic and comical aspects.
No Direction Home von Andrej Krementschouk with an introduction by Boris Mikhailov.
Published by Kehrer Verlag
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