What is PROzavod? It stands for a major exhibition of The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography that came out of the idea to show the best soviet industrial photography and has turned into a genuine research on the evolution of the image of factory and worker in Russia between avant-garde 1920s and present day.
© F.Grinberg - Atommash, 1974
PROzavod is an industrial story told by the medium of photography, collage and cinema. It is a kind of media archeology in the visual field. There is an avid interest toward industrial aesthetics all over the world which appears in various disciplinary researches (sociology, design, urban studies) and in art practices at the exhibition halls. Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs of the industrial architecture in Europe have long become classical; David Lynch&rsq...
The exhibition of the legendary percussionist Vladimir Tarasov at ROSPHOTO embraces audio and visual installations created within the period of the past two years.
The title of the artwork, Something Going On in Front of the Sea (2011) refers to Tarasov’s first solo disc, named after the work of Yuri Dyshlenko, the outstanding artist who was born in Leningrad and tragically died in New York in 1995. Tarasov defines this work as dedication to Yuri Dyshlenko and a version of his painting.
© Vladimir Tarasov
© Vladimir Tarasov
The Bench (2012) is based on the series of photographs taken by Zakhar Kolovsky through the window of an old house in the centre of St.-Petersburg. The series was created in the span of two ...