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SH 854


Peter Belyi

October 27 - November 18, 2005

After the novels of A. Solzhenitsyn


In his new installation Peter Belyi tries to approach dictatorship as an aesthetic phenomenon, however his is not the ‘sots-art’ of the seventies, which has reflected enough upon the façade built by tyranny’s favourite painters, but its terrible ‘backdrop’. The invisible world of correctional facilities, the relentless rhythm of the GULAG statistics; mass terror turns out to be nothing but a meaningless, abstract seven digit number. Belyi builds his installation on the simple photographic contrast of black and white, the opposition of “destruction” and “creation”.

The title of the exhibition is taken from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous short story “A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich”. Ù (pronounced “shch”) 854 is the prison number of the story’s hero.

The exhibition includes two installations. In one of them photographs, each numbered, make up a large image in which the number SH 854 can be read at a distance of 4-5 metres. A work-in-progress will be installed in a separate space in the gallery – 12 models of camp barracks, standing on soil with plants growing through them.

Peter Belyi was born in 1971 and lives in St.-Petersburg and London. He works in a wide range of techniques, including lithography and photo-installation. He is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (Great Britain). The Guelman Gallery has collaborated with Peter Belyi since 2004 – the artist’s installation “My Neighbourhood” was among the hits of the “Russia 2” exhibition (Special project within the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), and his “White Project” was shown at the Guelman Gallery exhibition “Piterskie (Contemporary Art of St.-Petersburg)” in the non-commercial project of the Art Moscow Fair 2005.



27.10.2005
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