Zona Maco Foto 2017

Sometimes the human being understands his spirit through an architecture that may never become real. Fantasy is that imagination fruit which knows itself as fiction. This is a photographic series of recreational scenarios where the human being has abandoned his identity-selfness to become an imaginary-self.  In this architecture of the distraction is where mankind looks to built an ephemeral reality. Lucid Eutopia observed this scenarios faraway from its usual function, looking for another  meaning, perhaps more mysterious and tenebrous without its feedbacker component. The photographic works are made during night-time via long expositions. In this desert moment, the oeuvre captures the flow of time, manifesting the actual space activity, bringing back its autonomy and life, moving away from the static image. Lucid Eutopia opens a dialogue over the meaning of these spaces and our need to make them a sanctuary to take refuge.

Sometimes the human being understands his spirit through an architecture that may never become real. Fantasy is that imagination fruit which knows itself as fiction. This is a photographic series of recreational scenarios where the human being has abandoned his identity-selfness to become an imaginary-self.  In this architecture of the distraction is where mankind looks to built an ephemeral reality. Lucid Eutopia observed this scenarios faraway from its usual function, looking for another  meaning, perhaps more mysterious and tenebrous without its feedbacker component. The photographic works are made during night-time via long expositions. In this desert moment, the oeuvre captures the flow of time, manifesting the actual space activity, bringing back its autonomy and life, moving away from the static image. Lucid Eutopia opens a dialogue over the meaning of these spaces and our need to make them a sanctuary to take refuge.

ALMANAQUE-Fotográfica proudly presents two body of works of photography and video-art by Ricardo Nicolayevsky.  Post-produced throughout two decades, the pieces become the time-tunnel from a poetic production process transcending words. Still and moving image from a public and a private world captured 35 years ago —at a gone New York— are reborn in another time and place. Lost Photos & NYC’83 proposes a dialogue with a present that threatens freedom of speech and human rights in a new status-quo. A photography series with intimate and enigmatic images, while the NYC’83 is a video-art portrait where the public and the private realms melt on the streets of the city open to all possibilities. The Lost Photos series —experimental by nature— has been mounted in a classic style, so its narrative and poetry may mimics with abstraction and found fortune. The NYC’83 video-art portrait captures the Punk and New Wave spirit of a young Nicolayevsky recording the idyllic XX century’s Metropolis. Late in 2016, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) acquired the Lost Portraits series, to which NYC’83 belongs, a total portrait featuring its streets, inhabit tans and the author. Time is the prime material for these productions. As Nicolayevsky remarks in one of his aphorisms: “Es imposible matar el tiempo sin herirlo” (“It is impossible to kill time without hurting it”).

ALMANAQUE-Fotográfica proudly presents two body of works of photography and video-art by Ricardo Nicolayevsky.  Post-produced throughout two decades, the pieces become the time-tunnel from a poetic production process transcending words. Still and moving image from a public and a private world captured 35 years ago —at a gone New York— are reborn in another time and place. Lost Photos & NYC’83 proposes a dialogue with a present that threatens freedom of speech and human rights in a new status-quo. A photography series with intimate and enigmatic images, while the NYC’83 is a video-art portrait where the public and the private realms melt on the streets of the city open to all possibilities. The Lost Photos series —experimental by nature— has been mounted in a classic style, so its narrative and poetry may mimics with abstraction and found fortune. The NYC’83 video-art portrait captures the Punk and New Wave spirit of a young Nicolayevsky recording the idyllic XX century’s Metropolis. Late in 2016, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) acquired the Lost Portraits series, to which NYC’83 belongs, a total portrait featuring its streets, inhabit tans and the author. Time is the prime material for these productions. As Nicolayevsky remarks in one of his aphorisms: “Es imposible matar el tiempo sin herirlo” (“It is impossible to kill time without hurting it”).

Observations on the resistance(2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space. Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished. Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.

Observations on the resistance (2014-16) is a series exploring human’s nature and destiny as a physical-emotional vulnerable subject. The images depict an approximation to mankind fragility in constant erosion upon their existence vicissitudes in time and space. Cuevas’ Observations question the constant degradation of a social and economic system which analyzes, organizes, controls, uses, dismantles and replaces once its resistance ability is diminished. Thus, Observations on the bodies’ resistance lays out a symbolic look to some of Mexico City’s inhabitants —accomplices of their own violence and tragedy — shown as characters that exist as co-perpetrators of the system that produces them. This body of works depicts our capacity to resist our own frictions and weights in our backs.

Lost Horizon (2016). The world promised by the October Revolution had to be not only fair and prosperous, but to also colonise the outer space. Socialism should have been established not only in space, but also in time, aided by technology which would allow to turn time into eternity. But over time, the economical failures had also brought disillusionment about the political utopia and about the promised bright future. In Lost Horizon, Tkachenko shot objects, which represent the image of the ideal cosmic future. He chose the format 6×6, encapsulating the utopian state projects into the Suprematist form of his fellow compatriot artist founder of the Russian Avant-Gard Kasimir Malevich’s ‘The Black Square’ from 1917, which being a revolutionary art piece, reflects the historical epoch it was conceived in.

Lost Horizon (2016). The world promised by the October Revolution had to be not only fair and prosperous, but to also colonise the outer space. Socialism should have been established not only in space, but also in time, aided by technology which would allow to turn time into eternity. But over time, the economical failures had also brought disillusionment about the political utopia and about the promised bright future. In Lost Horizon, Tkachenko shot objects, which represent the image of the ideal cosmic future. He chose the format 6×6, encapsulating the utopian state projects into the Suprematist form of his fellow compatriot artist founder of the Russian Avant-Gard Kasimir Malevich’s ‘The Black Square’ from 1917, which being a revolutionary art piece, reflects the historical epoch it was conceived in.

Lost Horizon (2016). The world promised by the October Revolution had to be not only fair and prosperous, but to also colonise the outer space. Socialism should have been established not only in space, but also in time, aided by technology which would allow to turn time into eternity. But over time, the economical failures had also brought disillusionment about the political utopia and about the promised bright future. In Lost Horizon, Tkachenko shot objects, which represent the image of the ideal cosmic future. He chose the format 6×6, encapsulating the utopian state projects into the Suprematist form of his fellow compatriot artist founder of the Russian Avant-Gard Kasimir Malevich’s ‘The Black Square’ from 1917, which being a revolutionary art piece, reflects the historical epoch it was conceived in.

Lost Horizon (2016). The world promised by the October Revolution had to be not only fair and prosperous, but to also colonise the outer space. Socialism should have been established not only in space, but also in time, aided by technology which would allow to turn time into eternity. But over time, the economical failures had also brought disillusionment about the political utopia and about the promised bright future. In Lost Horizon, Tkachenko shot objects, which represent the image of the ideal cosmic future. He chose the format 6×6, encapsulating the utopian state projects into the Suprematist form of his fellow compatriot artist founder of the Russian Avant-Gard Kasimir Malevich’s ‘The Black Square’ from 1917, which being a revolutionary art piece, reflects the historical epoch it was conceived in.

Lost Horizon (2016). The world promised by the October Revolution had to be not only fair and prosperous, but to also colonise the outer space. Socialism should have been established not only in space, but also in time, aided by technology which would allow to turn time into eternity. But over time, the economical failures had also brought disillusionment about the political utopia and about the promised bright future. In Lost Horizon, Tkachenko shot objects, which represent the image of the ideal cosmic future. He chose the format 6×6, encapsulating the utopian state projects into the Suprematist form of his fellow compatriot artist founder of the Russian Avant-Gard Kasimir Malevich’s ‘The Black Square’ from 1917, which being a revolutionary art piece, reflects the historical epoch it was conceived in.

ALMANAQUE-Fotográfica proudly presents two body of works of photography and video-art by Ricardo Nicolayevsky.  Post-produced throughout two decades, the pieces become the time-tunnel from a poetic production process transcending words. Still and moving image from a public and a private world captured 35 years ago —at a gone New York— are reborn in another time and place. Lost Photos & NYC’83 proposes a dialogue with a present that threatens freedom of speech and human rights in a new status-quo. A photography series with intimate and enigmatic images, while the NYC’83 is a video-art portrait where the public and the private realms melt on the streets of the city open to all possibilities. The Lost Photos series —experimental by nature— has been mounted in a classic style, so its narrative and poetry may mimics with abstraction and found fortune. The NYC’83 video-art portrait captures the Punk and New Wave spirit of a young Nicolayevsky recording the idyllic XX century’s Metropolis. Late in 2016, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) acquired the Lost Portraits series, to which NYC’83 belongs, a total portrait featuring its streets, inhabit tans and the author. Time is the prime material for these productions. As Nicolayevsky remarks in one of his aphorisms: “Es imposible matar el tiempo sin herirlo” (“It is impossible to kill time without hurting it”).