Projects
PHOTO WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION
Still Art Foundation
Lumiere Gallery presents an exhibition of works by the outstanding Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko from the collection of the Still Art Foundation, created by Elena and Mikhail Karisalov. The exhibition includes Rodchenko's works from different years, from the first photographic experiments of the 1920s to the end of the 1930s.
The exhibition featured famous portraits of Rodchenko's friends - artists, architects, poets, writers, filmmakers, employees of the magazines "LEF" and "Novy LEF", among them a recognizable portrait of Lily Brik, which became the basis for the poster of Lengiz, several photographs of Vladimir Mayakovsky from the first photo shoot in Rodchenko's workshop on Myasnitskaya (1924) and the famous photograph of Osip Brik, where the name of the magazine "LEF" is mounted instead of one of the lenses of glasses.
The exhibition will also include portraits of the family: the photographer's mother, his wife Varvara Stepanova and daughter Varvara Rodchenko, architectural shooting and photo reports: the legendary "Balconies" (1925), "Fire Escape" (1925), "Ladder" (1929), as well as "Pioneer Trumpeter" (1930) and "Pioneer" (1930).
The co-curator of the exhibition was Alexander Rodchenko's grandson and leading specialist in creativity, Alexander Lavrentiev. The exhibition featured 58 silver-gelatin prints from two albums of the museum's portfolio series, issued in an edition of 35 copies in 1994-1997, collected under the direction of Varvara Rodchenko, Alexander Lavrentiev and gallery owner Howard Schickler. The photographs included in the portfolio and provided by the StIll Art Foundation were printed by Alexander Lavrentiev and Yuri Plaksin in Rodchenko's darkroom from the original negatives of the author.