Gennady Meergus’ photographs have long been known to American, European and Russian viewers. Gennady resides in Israel, and the Bauhaus Center in Tel-Aviv is presenting his solo exhibition.

 

After his compositions a gourmet-spectator gets an aftertaste of Asher and Tenno Sooster, drawing dreamlike, deserted urban landscapes of the artists professed “magic, metaphysical realism”.

Yes, today in the epoch of Matrix the aesthetics of puzzle-like accuracy do not amaze us as before, when they were hand-made, but there remains a respectful attitude to the author holding in his hands a digital camera (Meergus is a sincere adherent of digital cameras) — a computer, as a matter of fact, sees the world through its “eyes” from his own — the author’s — viewpoint.

 

ZOOM, Russian Edition

 

One needn’t be hypnotized to follow the movement of a spinning top or to be 'frozen', troubling pedestrians, somewhere downtown, surrounded by gridded peaks of the skyscrapers. These are the architecture of aspiration to space, the epoch of the fantasy of a new world. The human, even after orbiting the planet, did not escape Earth’s gravity. The problem of overcoming the endless areas and dreams of the future found their physical implementation today only in the short epoch of glass buildings. This is a special, yet short period in world civilization that erases the borders of internal and external in architecture. Just like giants, we see worker bees inside the hives of modern cities; at the same time, the mirrored facades give us a celebration of reflections and glow, symbolizing a gate to a new world.

Does everyone who enters the glass jungles with a camera, photograph reflections of megalopolises? Many try, but not everyone is capable of converting the moment of the illusionary transfer of fluent reflections into an image that continues conveying the magic of transformations to the viewer. Meergus’ photographs preserve seconds of light oscillations, give us the feeling of involvement in the miracle, just as when we see the light of long extinct stars.

 

Irina Chmyreva

Russian academy of fine arts

 

About Gennady Meergus

Born in 1973, Gennady has been working in photography since childhood. He currently works with the Lumas gallery. He has participated in group exhibitions in Russia, Belorussia, Germany, USA and Austria. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and numerous private collections.

www.gennadymeergus.com

photo@gennadymeergus.com

 

The exposition is open from April 28 to May 27 in the gallery of the Bauhaus Center, Dizengoff, 99, Tel-Aviv, from Sunday to Thursday from 10AM to 7:30PM, Friday 10AM to 2:30PM, Saturday from noon to 7:30PM.

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