06.12.2012
Love of the Impossible
On the eve of the premiere of Nacho Duato’s production of the ballet Romeo and Juliet, an exhibition entitled ‘Love of the Impossible’ is to open in the Fireplace Hall of the Dress Circle. The project is a blend of ballet, jewellery art, and photography, featuring the combined efforts of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, jewellery designer Anna Fanigina and photographer Yury Molodkovets. Work on the project proceeded in tandem with rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet.
‘Love of the Impossible’ consists of 40 silver brooches made by the Riga designer Anna Fanigina with the use of photographs, natural stones, ancient glass which the passage of time has made precious, and fragments of old costume jewellery — it is like a set of quotations forming a link with the aesthetic of our mothers’ and grandmothers’ brooches. The exhibition also includes 30 black-and-white photographs produced using a special technique: a combination of impulse lighting, long exposure, zoom shots, and camera movement by Hermitage art photographer Yury Molodkovets.
Anna Fanigina: “In my jewellery collection L’Amour De L’Impossible I have continued to examine the theme of brooches as a special piece of jewellery that has the ‘right to intrude’ into the fabric of our clothes and produces a vivid and penetrating impression. This time the intense emotions and unique experiences that ballet gives us, constantly pushing back the boundaries of what is possible, arouses the desire to ‘take them to our hearts’, take them home with us and keep them for the long term, sharing them with others and inspiring ourselves to achieve the impossible. ‘Love of the Impossible’ is the motive force that enables the unreal to become real”.
Yury Molodkovets: “We set ourselves two tasks: the first was to create ‘highly artistic applied photographs’ that would be perceived on a micro level, i.e. that would become parts of items of jewellery. The second task was to attempt to retell a ‘sad tale’ in the language of photography, recording the rehearsal process and outwardly playing the role of photo journalists; to photograph the subjects in such a way as to turn them into ghostly symbols, pictograms of profound ideas — Time, Motion, Composition, Man, Passion, Light — in order to capture Love”.
The exhibition will run until 14 January 2013.
‘Love of the Impossible’ consists of 40 silver brooches made by the Riga designer Anna Fanigina with the use of photographs, natural stones, ancient glass which the passage of time has made precious, and fragments of old costume jewellery — it is like a set of quotations forming a link with the aesthetic of our mothers’ and grandmothers’ brooches. The exhibition also includes 30 black-and-white photographs produced using a special technique: a combination of impulse lighting, long exposure, zoom shots, and camera movement by Hermitage art photographer Yury Molodkovets.
Anna Fanigina: “In my jewellery collection L’Amour De L’Impossible I have continued to examine the theme of brooches as a special piece of jewellery that has the ‘right to intrude’ into the fabric of our clothes and produces a vivid and penetrating impression. This time the intense emotions and unique experiences that ballet gives us, constantly pushing back the boundaries of what is possible, arouses the desire to ‘take them to our hearts’, take them home with us and keep them for the long term, sharing them with others and inspiring ourselves to achieve the impossible. ‘Love of the Impossible’ is the motive force that enables the unreal to become real”.
Yury Molodkovets: “We set ourselves two tasks: the first was to create ‘highly artistic applied photographs’ that would be perceived on a micro level, i.e. that would become parts of items of jewellery. The second task was to attempt to retell a ‘sad tale’ in the language of photography, recording the rehearsal process and outwardly playing the role of photo journalists; to photograph the subjects in such a way as to turn them into ghostly symbols, pictograms of profound ideas — Time, Motion, Composition, Man, Passion, Light — in order to capture Love”.
The exhibition will run until 14 January 2013.
