    | | | Created for the support of Petersburg artists (both participation in the exhibitions and entrance are free), in the course of time the Gallery became a rather prestigious spot for organization of exhibitions both of domestic and foreign artists. We believe that in the situation when there are few exhibition spaces in the city and a great scale of creative ideas, aesthetic concepts and artistic practices, the main actual task is to present as many artists as possible independent on genre and technology. Exhibitions in the Borey Gallery are in the non-stop regime. It is a basic principle of the Gallery to support beginning artists and creators (the first exhibition, the first book, the first article). Absence of aesthetic snobbery and restraints in the interests of a special group of artists. Accessibility and openness.
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July 27-August 7, 2010. Sonya Persival. Photography. |
"Angel and Others"
Photography
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| | | | | | | "I never could write about my works, but at times I am asked questions about it, so here below I`ve summed up some main things I have to say.
I was born and grew up in St Petersburg, while it was still called Leningrad. My parents are artists, and as a child I didn`t even know that there were any other professions. However, unlike most of my playmates, I didn`t attend any schools of art and didn`t enter Mukhina Leningrad Higher Arts and Crafts College or the Academy of Arts.
And though the beauty around was the only thing which really interested me, I plunged into my study of foreign languages and spent a long while investigating different sides of my self, which had no direct relation to art.
Later I studied various artistic disciplines from time to time first in America, then in St Petersburg. For a long time I lived in Seattle, which is the Pacific north-west very like St Pete (with its rains and a grayish landscape) and which I consider to be my second home. It was right there, where I took a photo camera for the first time in several years.
After Seattle I again lived in St Petersburg for a long time. Petersburg always evoked in me a mixed feeling of love and hate and constantly filled me with inspiration. This is what my life consists of. Now I find myself in the States again, and in these circumstances I keep on living and taking my pictures. Changing two lives and continents is like contrast shower, and in some sense it`s very useful as it helps to see things and faces from a distance and look at them from the outside.
As a rule, I have a feeling of what excites me at the moment, of where I see beauty. I`m happy that I see it and happy that I found a way to express it. I love light and mood.
As a child, when I was 10, we all had "Smena-Lomo" cameras in the times of a photo studio classes in the House of Pioneers. Later I started to take photos with my parents` Zenith photo cam.
I always used a 35mm film, and just one year ago I, to my own surprise, firstly fell for Holga, and then started to study shooting in medium format more attentively.
Sometimes I don`t touch the film at all, sometimes scratch it somehow or write on it, or proceed it in some other way: there are many methods and every now and then I wand to experiment a little bit. Printing has always particularly interested me, as well as disciplines, related to photography, such as etching, litho-printing, rubber typing, etc".
You can find my works in the Internet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonyapercival/sets/
http://sphotos.carbonmade.com/
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July 13 – 24, 2010. Konstantin Polyakov. Sketches. |
"SKETCHES"
Painting
In the gallery halls |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | "A good sketch is always distinguished by cohesion of form and spirit. By setting a technical task for yourself and getting absorbed by it an artist becomes capable of expressing a broader and more general sense. A sketch for the artist is a play in the broad sense of the word; a play based on one or two certain techniques and filled with the potential of a big and highly artistic work. Thus, Chopin’s and List’s studies are concert pieces, in which handicraft depends on and serves to disclosure of one bright artistic figure. Artistic concept of the works presented at the exhibition is vey varied; there is only one figure in the basis of each of them, but still one can see juxtapositions rich in contrast. Some of them have shiny light colors, others are capricious and playful, the third to the contrary are of sad, melancholic or dramatic character.
Work on a sketch is kind of meditation, dissolution of yourself in space, which are obligatory conditions for concentrated pike energy. In such a spirit an artist can demonstrate something greater than his consciousness allows. Education, experience, customary stylistics yield to the possibility of intuitive insight and perception of the outer world".
K.P.
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June 15- 26, 2010. Artyom Lezhepyokov. Photography. |
"NARROW GAUGE"
Photography
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|  | |  | | | | | | | Lezhepyokov Artyom Leonidovich was born in Pyatigorsk in August, 1982. From 1999 till 2004 took a course of study at the Spanish language faculty of Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, at the same time finished a correspondence course at the law faculty of Oryol Law Institute attached to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Started to take photos in 2005. In 2007 had solo shows in Essentuki, Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk. Participated in review competitive photo shows, such as “Palmira of the North 2006”, “My Canon 2007”, “1st International Photo Contest named after Karl Bulla 2007”, “My Canon 2008”, “My Canon 2009”. Took the 1st place in “My Canon 2007” photo contest in the “professional” category.
"For over a hundred years a Pyatigorsk tram follows a narrow gauge, representing predeterminacy of life, which moves along old rails and it seems impossible to leave the track or to change the route signifacantly.
Fear to change something in yourself, to change the route, to stray from the flock, fear because of public judgment, family censure, fear to be oneself, to be a personality in the true sense of the word deprives us of any real meaning of life, which finally reduces itself to a struggle for existence or a rush for expensive glittering distinctions, highlighting our social status. Today we live in the era of terrible non-conformism, which in fact is a social ideology actively fed by the media, and in which dissimulation as the best method to make one’s way in life foreshadows Russia as “the land of opportunities”. Thus, adapting, wriggling, cutting corners, making others bend and eat the dust (not to be so much frustrated ourselves), we all move in closed ranks to our personal goals and reach one and the same one.
What do photos have to do with it? Nothing. They’re just a waste of time".
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