Exhibition "Smoke and Labyrinth". Pushchino, 2020
Retrospective exhibition of works dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the author. The exhibition included two blocks of monochrome photographs, most of which became the material for two photo books of the same name by the author.
The exhibition ran from August 31 to September 19, 2020. The presentation of the author's photo books took place at the opening of the exhibition on September 2 at the House of Scientists at the address: Moscow region, Pushchino, blvd. Ierusalimsky, 32B
Konstantin Chemeris works in the style of pictorial photography. Conducts artistic experiments, mainly in the landscape genre. In his works he prefers to use a monochrome palette. Using modern digital technologies, he achieves the necessary graphic quality, referring the viewer to pencil drawings and photographic images of the early 20th century. Choosing subjects in which the forces of nature dominate man and his creations, he strives for the psychological associativity of the created images.
The photobook “Smoke” includes a series of pictorial photographs created between 2000 and 2016. In photographs that stylistically echo artistic images of the early 20th century, the author captured the fading beauty of his small homeland. Here squares and buildings are deteriorating, an overgrown city park is living out its life, and the once young science city is getting closer to the state of the surrounding villages. The book “Smoke” is about the feelings of a post-Soviet person who feels the irrevocability of past prospects for a bright future, when in the fog of changing eras unknown boundless and all-encompassing forces of nature dominate over him and his creations.
The photobook “Labyrinth” consists of several series created between 2017 and 2018 in a classic monochrome palette. Here are roadside landscapes and a mountain river canyon, a dead end in a gardening community near an abandoned mine, seven days between home and work, the last refuge of old cars, a path to a churchyard and abandoned houses along the highway. Six photographic series formed a bizarre intellectual labyrinth, the beginning of which was the hope of seeing the nearest star.
Works included in the series of photographs “Smoke”
Works included in the “Labyrinth” photographic series
The project was implemented with the support of the State Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for outstanding figures of culture and art.
The exhibition features 89 works:
47 pcs ~14x21 cm (frame 28x35 cm)
23 pcs ~20x30 cm (frame 40x50 cm)
7 pcs ~30x45 cm (frame 50x65 cm)
12 pcs ~40x60 cm (frame 60x80 cm)
The works are framed in black thin Nielsen frames, milk-colored passepartout, without glass. All works are available for subsequent exhibition in the original design.
YouTube: TVS Pushchino. A 20-year project
Photos from the opening: Margarita Popova (3), TVS-Pushchino (4, 6-12, 23-25), Yuri Andryushin (5, 13-20, 22), Dmitry Ivanov (21, 26)