    | | | 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 14 - 25 2009. Eli Perelman. Photo. |
«PETERSBURG, STREET WALKER’S HANDBOOK»
Photography
In the halls of the gallery |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | «Petersburg, street walker’s handbook» – is the second exhibition of Eli Perelman, an Israeli who has been taking photoes of Saint Petersburg since 2005.
The city is seen as a text by the exposition creators. The exhibition is thought of as a handbook for studying this text.
The idea and literary edition is of Julia Patrakova.
Dear reader!
You are holding a book called «Petersburg, street walker’s handbook» in your hands. Everything seems to be clear about it at first sight. But please don’t be in a hurry, dear reader, it’s not as simple as that.
There are four big sections in the book. They will lead you through the way of a person who is getting to know a new text, Petersburg.
Since we are talking about the text, you will meet a lot of terms on the pages of this book. They refer to linguistics, a science about language. So, let us start our way!
Section one: Morphology (from Greek μορφή «form» + Greek λογία
"science") in a wider sense— science about forms and structure.
When the street walker comes to town he doesn't see the main point, he just sees the form. Houses render the form. The first stage of apprehension of a city text is combination of prefixes - balconies, suffixes - front doors and endings - roofs.
Section two: Syntax (Greek σύνταξις — composition).
Syntax makes part of Grammar and Semiotics and incudes issues of coherent speach structure and consists of two main parts:
o science of word combination,
o science of sentence The first stage is over and the speach is becoming coherent. Light and air of dashes, rhyme of commas and compoundness of reflections appear in it.
The third section: Lexics (from Greek λεξικός — «referring to the word», from Greek
λέξις — «word», «turn of speach») — is part of the language science which studies meanings of words. Lexics is the central part of the language which names, forms and imparts the knowledge about objects of reality.
It is just the right time to meditate about understanding the game of senses, to feel the poetics of street talk, to enter into a dialogue, to juggle with styles answering accidental street walkers' questions.
Section four: Semiotics, or semiology (Greek σημειωτική , from Ancient Greek σημεῖον — «sign, mark»), — a science exploring qualities of signs and signs' systems (of natural and artificial languages).
Information and emotion of Petersburg text become part of our heroe's life. There comes understanding of inner connections and the main point of what is going on. If only for a short time, the street walker is getting incorporated into the text. |
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June 30 – July 11, 2009. Oleg Chernov. Painting. |
«DATE AND TIME»
Painting
In the gallery halls |  | | «The more intently we peer, the more we feel something strange…
A new day is slowly rising above the roofs of the city.
For someone it’ll be just like thousand of such days, and somebody will remember it for the rest of their lives. But now for both it’s simply a blank leaf, on which there’s nothing written yet».
Free version of Murakami
Through the already formed traditional poetry of expressive realism an artist experiences sensation of a pendulum swing; he starts a dispute with his artistic handwriting, first destroying it and then coming back to it. Most likely, he discovers within himself a new opportunity to make a definite choice between “formal and informal” search, wishing to gain new experience and find the ultimate essentiality.
Oleg Chernov was born on March 14, 1962 in Glubokovo village, Krasnoyarsky region. From 1979 to 1983 he studied at Stavropol building college, City planning and Architecture department.
From 1987 to 1991 he was a student at Stavropol art school (tutors: A.P.Logachyov and P.S.Gorban)
Oleg Ivanovich has participated in numerous collective and solo shows. Apart from spacious geography of the homeland, there’ve been several exhibitions in Belgium and in the Netherlands.
Chernov’s painting is rich in color and variously positive. One can hear cicadae in his summer heat, and the spectator is sure to see his own reflection in the lake, if he comes closer. The city stretches its streets under your feet and seduces you by the light of its warmly welcoming windows and festive showcases. And it even smells of exhaust fumes.
This reality is very close to ours, but it has definite features of another reality, rich for miracles and discoveries. | | | |  | | | | |  | | | | |  | |
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June 16 – 27, 2009. Konstantin Polyakov. Painting/Graphics. |
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