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| | Arts Calendar / November 16 / Exhibitions |
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| Aleksey Zhogov: At the Speed of Light |
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 Aleksey Zhogov, photographer, devoted to the light cinetism, is the latest opening of Shtuka Art company. His works of art took part in one of the most famous exhibitions of Cinematic Arts in the world - Kinematika in London in 2013. Photo-artist Alexey Zhogov describes his art as "light-optical kinetics", in which unrealistic optical 3D images are created using unique light installations, which can never be repeated. The magnetic play of colour and weird patterns provides a challenge for the viewer, who is forced to speculate on the nature of images created without the use of digital technology. Zhogov's project "At the speed of light: London - Moscow - Shanghai" will deep you in the fantastic world of the light, astonishing photoshoots and light-optical installations. This exhibition will carry you in unknown dimension and "hypnotize" you. Zhogov is particularly interest how light waves change after passing through the human perception.
1905 Gallery  |
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| Gijsbert Hanekroot: From Abba to Zappa. Rock Photo 1970 |
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 The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography is pleased to present solo exhibition of musical photographer Gijsbert Hanekroot "From ABBA to ZAPPA. Seventies Rock Photography" that will take place in the largest space of the Center. The seventies. Hectic, exciting, creative. It was a golden age of rock music and time when Dutch photographer Gijsbert Hanekroot devoted himself to the music and photography. Working with magazines such as OOR, Nieuwe Revu, Margriet, Viva, he has attended hundreds of performances and filmed numerous interviews. His concert shots, bright and expressive, captured the most powerful moments of the show. Hanekroot shot Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart, John Lennon and Keith Richards, David Bowie and Blondie, Bob Marley, Joe Cocker and Miles Davis. Spending a lot of time with people who have been sung along by millions, Gijsbert tried to look deeper than the stage image and to capture not a star, but a person. That is why his portraits are so natural and intimate, relaxed and sincere. Gijsbert Hanekroot's "Abba...Zappa Seventies Rock Photography" was published in 2008 and includes more than 300 photographs of rock stars of the 70s. The book has become a guide for rock music history indded. Gijsbert Hanekroot will attend the opening of his first solo exhibition in Moscow to present the book along with signing session. Hanekroot's exhibitions have been held in Amsterdam, Leiden and Rotterdam and his prints are presented in galleries in Amsterdam and Paris. There will be around 100 photographs carrying us to the atmosphere of the 70s presented in Moscow exhibition, including 20 unique vintage prints made in 70s.
Lumiere Gallery |
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 Legendary photography, painter, and maker of objects and films, Man Ray was on the most versatile and inventive artists of this century. Born in Philadelphia in 1890, Man Ray showed evidence of being artistically and mechanically inclined from childhood. After graduating from Boys' High School in 1908, he was offered a scholarship to study architecture but chose to pursue a career as an artist instead. In 1911, the Radnitzky family changed their surname to Ray, a name selected by Man Ray's younger brother Sam, in reaction to the ethnic discrimination and anti-semitism prevalent at that time. Emmanuel, who was called "Manny" as a nickname, thereafter used the single name Man Ray. In 1915, Man Ray had his first one-man show of paintings and drawings. His first proto-Dada object, an assemblage titled "Self-Portrait", was exhibited the following year. He produced his first significant photographs in 1918. While living in New York City, he formed the American branch of the Dada movement, which began in Europe as a radical rejection of traditional art. He co-founded the group of modern artists called Others. After a few unsuccessful experiments, Man Ray stated, "Dada cannot live in New York", and in 1921 he went to live and work in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France during the era of great creativity. For the next 20 years in Montparnasse, Man Ray revolutionized the art of photography. Great artists of the day such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Cocteau posed for his camera. With Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Masson, Joan Mir?, and Pablo Picasso, Man Ray was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Gallerie Pierre in Paris in 1925. Man Ray also directed a number of influential avant-garde short films, such as Le Retour ? la Raison (1923), Emak-Bakia (1926), etc. "Man Ray. Portraits" is the first major retrospective of this innovative and influential artist's photographic portraits. The exhibition highlights Man Ray's central position among the leading artists of the Dada and Surrealist movements and the significant range of contemporaries, celebrities, friends and lovers that he captured: from Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso to Kiki de Montparnasse, Lee Miller and Catherine Deneuve. Featuring over 150 vintage prints and key works from international museums and private collections, the exhibition also demonstrates Man Ray's use of revolutionary photographic techniques and early experiments with colour, as well as surveying his published work in leading magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair.
Museum of Private Art Collections |
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