Sergey Kosianov
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Bio
The glance of the photographer Sergey Kosianov has the characteristic of a metaphysical abstraction, which reminds us the operation of Giorgio De Chirico in panting. The fame was brought to Sergey Kosianov thanks to joint project 1000profiles, created together with the artist Victor Pushkin and exhibited at cult Yakut Gallery at Moscow. Then Kosyanov became the participant of Moscow Photo Biennale, was the head of guild of advertising photographers and issued the most well-known photo-magazine Camera Obscura. At the same time Kosyanov realizes lots of design projects in terms of owned bureau Arbor. The current president of Russia has got his pictures, also in collections of Gazprom and GazpromNeft corporations, and of many famous businessmen.
Work
Kosianov offers us a peculiar vision of the city of Saint Petersburg, with his portraits of «The Great St.Petersburg» in black and white, and in sandy and smoky colors. The monumental aspect of the city emerges from the photos of Kosianov, together with the impression that Saint Petersburg and its images belong to an eternal dimension, to the classics. The city, through his photography, becomes a state of mind that we cannot move away from us and discard, as it is absorbed in our own glances by our own eyes. The glance of Kosianov, in turn, digs the reality of the city – of its buildings, canals, monuments and bridges – looking for the essential, for what is hidden and lays inside the usual views of the city. This timeless, classical image of Saint Petersburg is properly what Saint Petersburg is in itself, as it outcomes to a pure quality of the vision. This is a feature of Kosianov’s photography: catching the metaphysical dimension of an urban landscape in the depth of what is visible, and lives on the skin of the images. The metaphysical view of the city signed by Kosianov, is not simply an imaginative one; its dreamlike characterization is at the same time realistic, or rather, it is imaginative insofar it is realistic. Kosianov doesn’t describe another world, beyond the concrete one, but right this world, according to its deepest and immanent features. With his photos, the artist tells us that what is real, according to its essence, doesn’t merely require to be looked at, but needs to be seen.
