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Light Lost in Time - Solo show in Bratislava
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Light Lost in TimeExhibition of art works by Gennady Meergus (Israel)Under the aegis of the Embassy of Israel in Slovakia Curators: Evgeny Berezner, Irina Chmyrerva, Natalia Tarasova (IRIS Foundation, Russia) Z-Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia This is a visual story about the travel of light via centuries of human architecture, from sandstones of the sacred town Zefat (Safed) in Northern Israel to refraction in glass skyscrapers around the world. The story, by Gennady Meergus, is based on the principals of photography: light is caught by camera and refracted by an apparatus. The collaboration of human perception and technique has a result reminiscent of the abstract beauty of crystals. The light in Meergus’ photos plays the role of the eternal stranger in a labyrinth of architecture -- the highlight of human genius. For the last three centuries, theories and discussion on light have rubbed shoulders with the development of photography, and in recent times with the development of new media based on photographic technology. Light – elusive, impalpable, and disembodied – has surpassed the equally ephemeral subjects of water and air in the number of “hits” dealing with it as a subject of contemplation in our modern culture. Water and air can be counted among our resources. They are the topic of ecological and social examination. Light, as before, is connected with cultural codes existing inside our civilization for longer than the various social formations. In modern culture, light still carries with it the gleam of the sacred. Light is connected with vision, with personal experience, and at the same time, light is also understood as the universal, “divine” (on the level of feelings, not words) beginning, which permeates all and is eternal. Light is the origin -- that which existed at the very beginning of history. Gennady Meergus’ exhibit is a journey of light through time, with eras marked by architecture, ancient settlements and the mirrored facades of cities. Light simultaneously arrives in both eras, in ancient stone and in concrete and glass (with the latter perhaps associated with the future). But light is different depending on the viewer, on the angle of observation, on the frame chosen in the creative act of viewing within the confines of a free will. This exhibit is an invitation. An invitation to look from the viewpoint of the artist and see light from his perspective. At that moment (the second that cosmic time cannot be differentiated from eternity), when the light, on its journey through time (historical eras), changes its expression (its face, if we were to speak of light as a person). In the old places it is all-inclusive. It uses its power to envelop everything, like a Bach organ fugue. It pushes upward, flaking and shattering into crystals, like a Messiaen passage in glass architecture. It… It is not lost. It is us, the viewers, who are lost in it, who melt into its paths while observing the graphics of the light in Meergus’ photographs. Irina Chmyreva, PhD. Post-production and media engineering for the show -- Vladimir Sergienko; production -- MAXILAB, Moscow |
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Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Gennady Meergus |
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