31.01.2019
Leonid Toprover in St. Petersburg
Volgograd
January, 2019
January, 2019
Works of the photographer Leonid Toprover, the author of the photo chronicle of the project "Excuse me, have you seen Mr. Losev?", are presented at the V Photobiennale of modern photography.
295 authors participate in the Photobiennale, which opened today in the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg). The exhibition consists of six blocks: "City", "Still life", "Nude", "Landscape", "Daily life", "Portrait". It presents two works by Leonid Toprover: "Winter" (2003) in the section "City" and monochrome "Steep Bank of the Don River" (2007) in the section "Landscape".
The photographer took a picture of the tree burned by lightning and frozen on a cliff over a Don River. He found the yellow picture of a white winter among the old buildings in the north of Volgograd.
"Leonid Toprover is an expert of shades and details, a creator of an author's photocourse, which graduates begin to see the world like the followers of Confucius, Carlos Castaneda and, of course, of the teacher," Andrey Lissitzky, the director of the Moscow library of F.Dostoyevsky says. "He is genius loci for Volgograd, he has a fine appreciation of the city, people, buildings, light and shadow; he modifies environment adding new qualities and aesthetics, and saves what is destroyed by inhabitants and time."
In 2003 artist presented the exhibition "Mute city", where Volgograd isn't similar to itself at all. The city is very different from the popular stories about it in these photos. A year later the continuation appeared – "Demoversion" (2004) – about a person in the crowd as "the small screw" in the system. Then the exhibition "The urban motive" (2016) was at the Museum of Fine Arts of I.Mashkova.
The Photobiennale of modern photography is a project of the Russian Museum, which started in 2009. The Museum demonstrates the art of photography in Russia every two years. The format of the Photobiennale stays permanent. Artists have a free choice; they can use the different techniques, genres and stylistic trends in modern photo art.
The exhibition is open until March 25.
The photographer took a picture of the tree burned by lightning and frozen on a cliff over a Don River. He found the yellow picture of a white winter among the old buildings in the north of Volgograd.
"Leonid Toprover is an expert of shades and details, a creator of an author's photocourse, which graduates begin to see the world like the followers of Confucius, Carlos Castaneda and, of course, of the teacher," Andrey Lissitzky, the director of the Moscow library of F.Dostoyevsky says. "He is genius loci for Volgograd, he has a fine appreciation of the city, people, buildings, light and shadow; he modifies environment adding new qualities and aesthetics, and saves what is destroyed by inhabitants and time."
In 2003 artist presented the exhibition "Mute city", where Volgograd isn't similar to itself at all. The city is very different from the popular stories about it in these photos. A year later the continuation appeared – "Demoversion" (2004) – about a person in the crowd as "the small screw" in the system. Then the exhibition "The urban motive" (2016) was at the Museum of Fine Arts of I.Mashkova.
The Photobiennale of modern photography is a project of the Russian Museum, which started in 2009. The Museum demonstrates the art of photography in Russia every two years. The format of the Photobiennale stays permanent. Artists have a free choice; they can use the different techniques, genres and stylistic trends in modern photo art.
The exhibition is open until March 25.
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