MICHAEL KENNA – RETROSPECTIVE
2011-05-02Michael Kenna`s retrospective covers the most significant periods of his creative work and shows famous landscape photos, made during his travels. Pictures of French provinces and Japanese gardens, American power plants and sculptures in St. Petersburg are among them.
The photographer’s style can be called metaphysical photography, with time and memory as basic concepts. Black-and-white high contrast photos take viewers from the real world to the abstract university of the photographer. Therefore, Kenna’s works can be easily regarded as an ancient painting and a 3D image. They embody the skilful synthesis of the eternal and the momentary. The photographer’s approach to the viewer is also specific. All photos by Kenna have small size. Such format forces one person to watch it from the distance of no more than 30 cm. Kenna intentionally brings us closer to the picture, demanding maximum involvement and frankness in the dialogue with the audience.
Opposite – Perspective of Trees, Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, 1999
Exhibition runs from May 22nd, 2011
Moscow Museum Of Modern Art
9 Tverskoy Boulevard
Moscow
Russia
