"Since photo
escaped on its own way, it has been flourished...
Unprecedented opportunities are revealed."
Alexander Rodchenko
From
one side, photo imitated painting for a long time but from another side it
revealed and developed its own aesthetics and poetry by the works of its
talented pioneers beginning from the first decades of its existence. It went
along the way of its transformation into independent art but also it
influenced over the other branches of art culture.
At the beginning of the 20-th century, so called photo impressionism
received a wide spreading. For this trend the utilization of gentle painting
optics is typically. It washes out the contours of a subject, turns object
into hazy indistinct bodies. By such indistinct contours the photo
impressionists' close-ups are similar to impressionism in painting. In their
works, subjects are hardly distinguished as though they are not crystallized
from tender and thick haze, which floods the descriptive plane. Florensky
said about impressionism in painting that subjects' cover was definitively
exhausted for what "things stretch in space as smoke ghosts do" and
"their material filling spreads all over the space".
The main process in Ukrainian Eduard Stranadko's work is painting of
ready prints in a solution. The selection of tone inexplicably but
unmistakably harmonies with the structure of a close-up and with the
emotional condition. Stranadko is a dreamy and lyric man. What is reality for
him? To stop the sun light, to catch the breath, flowing away of time... The
close-ups are flooded with light, you see how all things are taken in, washed
and enliven with blinding sunny "wind". There are not people, not
landscapes in the close-ups. There are air, through which reality dawns and
trembles, a certain atmosphere gust, which lifts people, houses and
landscapes in air either of a dream, or of rapture or of delirium...
Natalie
Scarlatti
to exhibition biogr ua stranadko@ukr.net
EDUARD STRANADKO
was born in 1958
Jankoi / Ukraine
since 1963 lives and works in Poltava / Ukraine.
since 2012 lives and works in Kyiv / Ukraine.
since 2012 shef of the National Society of Photo
Artists of Ukraine.
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