Overview
2018
Hahnemühle rag ultra smooth paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 31.5cm (H) x 21cm (W) / 12.4" (H) x 8.3" (W)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings.
Artist Statement
Photography from "Primitives" series, made on Gran Canary Island.
Svetlana photographs urban landscapes, transforming three-dimensional city spaces into two-dimensional abstract compositions. A dialogue between the harmony of color and shape is happening through the game with flattened space. The documentary nature of the photograph is moved to the background and gives a way to the author’s visual language.
Photo is made without collage by means of optical lens effects.
Hahnemühle rag ultra smooth paper
Edition of 10 +2AP
Size
21x31.5 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
There is a white border around the image for framing.
Different sizes available by request
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Artist Profile
Born: 1988
Hometown: Saint-Petersburg
Based in: Saint-Petersburg
Svetlana Smirnova (Russia, born in 1988) is a Russian artist working with photography as a medium. She studied graphic art at Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design and at Higher School of Printing and Media Technologies. Thereafter Svetlana started to work as a graphic designer and a commercial photographer. But soon she started to do her personal creative photography projects.
Svetlana’s visual language is influenced by Russian avant-garde, the abstract paintings of Kandinsky and Malevich, and their works on the theory of color and composition. Combining this with an interest in minimalism art, Svetlana photographs urban landscapes, transforming three-dimensional city spaces into two-dimensional abstract compositions. A dialogue between the harmony of color and shape is happening through the game with flattened space. The documentary nature of the photograph is moved to the background and gives a way to the author’s visual language.
In her works, Svetlana ponders how reducing the amount of detail can increase the impact on the viewer, and how this redirects viewer’s internal dialogue from analyzing objects in the territory of personal emotional perception and gives the viewer wider opportunities for photo interpretation.
Photos are made without collage by means of optical lens effects. Svetlana is inspired by small coastal towns she witnessed all over the world during her trips, places where you can meet beauty in the simplicity of unremarkable urban landscapes.
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