Alexey Titarenko, White Dresses, St. Petersburg, 1995. Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist. © Alexey Titarenko, courtesy of Nailya Alexander Gallery.
Expositions du 22/3/2017 au 20/5/2017 Terminé
Nailya Alexander Gallery 41 E 57th Street Suite 704 10022 New York États-Unis
Press release -Nailya Alexander Gallery 41 E 57th Street Suite 704 10022 New York États-Unis
http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/exhibitions/alexey-titarenko-the-city-is-a-novel" is pleased to present Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel, on view Wednesday, March 22 through Saturday, May 20. A reception with the artist will take place in the gallery on Thursday, April 6 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and by appointment.
Born in 1962 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Alexey Titarenko has been taking photographs for over thirty years, in four major cities: http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/exhibitions/alexey-titarenko-the-city-is-a-novel", http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/exhibitions/alexey-titarenko-the-city-is-a-novel", http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/exhibitions/alexey-titarenko-the-city-is-a-novel", and http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/exhibitions/alexey-titarenko-the-city-is-a-novel". Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel brings together, for the first time, prints from every phase of Titarenko’s career, including rarely exhibited photomontages from the his first major series, Nomenclature of Signs; key photographs from his groundbreaking series City of Shadows; and never-before-seen work produced within the past year.
Alexey Titarenko, Palm Tree, Havana, 2003. Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist. © Alexey Titarenko, courtesy of Nailya Alexander Gallery.
The exhibition takes its title from Titarenko’s monograph of the same name, published in 2015 by Damiani editore and selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best photobooks of the year. Signed copies of the sold-out book will be available for sale for the duration of the exhibition. For Titarenko, the city not only shapes and influences each individual’s mindset and point of view; it is also a creative force, the architect of narratives in which each of us becomes his or her own distinct character. As an artist, his work is to bring to light these stories through his own lens, and to outline their symbolic meaning. As he writes in his essay City of Shadows, “Universal emotions perpetuated during the last century…constitute the main themes of my photographs, to the extent of transforming the most documentary among them into elements of a novel — not reportage, but a novel, whose central theme is the human soul.”
Titarenko’s photographs have been shown in over thirty solo exhibitions and over forty group exhibitions around the world. His work can be found in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Columbus Museum of Art; the George Eastman House, Rochester; the European House of Photography, Paris; the Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne; the Musée Réattu, Arles; and the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, among other institutions.
Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel coincides with the opening of a solo exhibition of Titarenko’s work at Damiani Gallery in Bologna, Italy, on May 12, 2017. Titarenko’s exhibition is among the first to take place in Damiani Gallery, which opened in June 2016 as a new facet of the renowned publishing house Damiani editore.
Alexey Titarenko, New York Public Library, New York, 2017. Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist. © Alexey Titarenko, courtesy of Nailya Alexander Gallery.
This exhibition also coincides with The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, taking place from March 30 through April 2 at Pier 94. Nailya Alexander Gallery will be exhibiting in Booth 706, and will be showing work by Titarenko. The gallery will be open by appointment only for the duration of the fair.
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