Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics:
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 1
Oleg Malevany (Photo © Juri Rupin,1985)
Oleg Malevany
Oleg Malevany (b. 1945) was one of the founders of the Vremya group in 1971. (See exhibtion 1 and 2 for Malevany's 1970 – 1985 and 1985 - 2000 work.)
Mainly, Malevany’s work of 2000 - 2015 continues with the major approaches of his previous ouvre, but now the artist uses digital techniques to emulate the analogue “overlays” of the 1970s and 1980s. The artist explains that compared to combining analogue film frames, the digital overlaying of the layers allow a much broader range of opportunities to control the final outcome, and to achieve a result unpredicted at the time of shooting.
This technique is used in The Feast That is Always with Me, 20 Views of the Confectionary Chimney, and The Sense of Foreboding (all 2013 - 2014).
In The Feast That Is Always with Me (2013 - 2014) Malevany adds a conceptual angle to his work by overimposing images photographed in the same location. Malevany chooses his second shot to overlay while looking at the first one on the camera display. This is a development of a favorite Kharkiv School approach where multiple images showing the same locations at different shooting points were juxtaposed (Boris Mikhailov’s Twos and Fours, some of Vladimir Starko’s image, Victor Kochetov’s Take Two, Misha Pedan’s Stereo_typ , etc.). The images verge on abstract at the first glance, but, when scrutinized, reveal fine realistic details showing multi-layered perception of cityscapes.
Portfolios
View Portfolio: Sense of Foreboding 2013-2014
View Portfolio: 20 Views of Confectionary Chimmey 2013-2014
View Portfolio: The Feast that is Always with Me 2013-2014
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