Author Archives: jolanta

There are two themes that thread their way throughout Chezin’s works: that of man and his original uneven attitude towards himself and the world; and that of the memory space in which strange metamorphoses and surrealistic shifts in time happen. Chezhin has wrought a paradoxical juxtaposition of naturally different time-and-space rhythms by working with great […]

The young artist spent several years studying the trends and techniques governing Western art, namely Pop art, mail art, post-modernism, video- and multimedia art, assemblages, objects, installations, digital photography. Vitaly Pushinsky NY Arts The young artist spent several years studying the trends and techniques governing Western art, namely Pop art, mail art, post-modernism, video- and […]

Oleg Shagapov is an outstanding representative of young Petersburg photography, the artists who have emerged on St Petersburg’s art scene since the late 1990s. These photographers have woven a new, fresh perception of life into the Petersburg photography, creating works that are more dynamic, playful and frank than those of their senior fellow photographers. Oleg […]

In the papers, on the news and in the international spotlight?Russia today is a force to be reckoned with. As always, though Moscow is the epicenter of the political power, St. Petersburg is the heart of Russian cultural production. In the visual arts, particularly in photography, St Petersburg is represented by many colorful names of […]

Many years ago, I heard these names for the first time on the news. I couldn’t quite understand the meaning of their giant umbrellas, scattered by the thousands—blue ones in Japan; yellow ones, in California. The scale and spectacle of the fantastic project forever ignited my curiosity, and led me, many years later, to their […]

Icelandic folk tales and legends are extremely rich and original, forming an unusually diverse body of written and oral accounts of elves, trolls, ghosts, revived corpses, monsters, demons, magicians and sorcerers, to name only a few. The long list of categories constitutes a vast collections, mostly gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century […]

Some of the most significant changes in Moscow will be perceived in the city’s architecture. Real estate prices are on the rise and the appetites for more construction are growing daily. In this construction frenzy, older buildings often stand in the way and consequently, in recent years, hundreds of historical estates and public buildings have […]