Went to the Photobiennale 2020 at MAMM, sharing my photographic impressions

Went to the Photobiennale 2020 at MAMM, sharing my photographic impressions. Photographs of photographs are a genre of their own, and one that, I think, would be far more successful were it not for the glass between the viewer and the object of art. The first thing you see on entering the museum is a composition devoted to doctors and to epidemics in general; I noticed Pepperstein with flowers for Dr Freud. In the basement is Ivan Petrokovich's installation Specimens, about the technological singularity and a strange desynchronisation of the city lighting, which for some reason turns out to be recorded precisely around my own house, how curious. There is a really splendid room of pictures by Igor Mukhin about life in the 1990s: Kirkorov and Yakubovich selling a Moskvich car, yes, yes, even that happened. Next comes the colossal collection of Antoine de Galbert, including the famous photograph by Toulouse-Lautrec. Upstairs are works by the photographer and philosopher Sergey Chilikov, who died this year; I was caught by the old women from the series Old Samara. Lastly, have a look at the protest flag on the Standing Rock reservation in Mitch Epstein's anthology

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Went to the Photobiennale 2020 at MAMM, sharing my photographic impressions

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s