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Nikolai Ishchuk
Arcadia 2: Experimental Photogram on Silver Gelatin paper by Nikolai Ishchuk
2019

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Arcadia (2) , 2019, Silver gelatin prints, cyanotype and mixed media, 40 1/5 × 68 1/2 in, 102 × 174 cm, unique work by Nikolai Ishchuk Nikolai’s wall-based work over the last few years in particular, stands in an evolving dialogue with painting and drawing through diverting the use of photographic materials away from producing a mechanical image and toward mark-making and gesture. These works are from a series called Arcadia, first shown at Photo London in May 2019, simply suspended without frames on the wall. We propose framing in an acrylic box, which will be arranged for you, to retain the sculptural feel for the work. In ‘Arcadia’, Nikolai reimagines mountainous terrains as quasi-architectural geometric compositions. Modernist architecture, with its steel-frame and cantilevered structures, completely changed the relationship between the interior and the outside, literally opening up new vistas onto nature. Hulking Brutalist forms, as Jonathan Meades argues in his documentary ‘Bunkers, brutalism and bloody-mindedness: Concrete poetry’, went one step further by seeking to replace nature as the source of the sublime. Starting with snaps of mountain ranges, Nikolai abstracts them through repetitive redrawing, rendering the drawings as silver gelatin prints and then working over them. Although he still employs the basic binaries of exposure, gone are the soft shapes seen in his previous acclaimed series ‘Thresholds’. Instead, stark staccatos of angular black and white areas abut bands of blue, where the movement of the hand is allowed to become visible. The title ‘Arcadia’ alludes to how both the landscape and architecture are instrumentalised in the name of idealised visions. Nikolai Ishchuk’s practice explores the realm of the ‘photographic’ in an expanded sense and positions it in relation to other disciplines and art histories. It does so through dramatizing the processes and materials of photography and mixing them with those of other media; through diverting their use away from the pictorial toward propositions that test how non-narrative meaning is constructed through objecthood, presence and proportion. Hovering between the handmade, the industrial and the archaeological, his work often pursues blunt formal strategies to generate affect – or an illusion thereof – and taps into photography’s ambivalent relationship with the modernist canon, to which it was instrumental but into which it wasn’t properly absorbed. Nikolai was born in 1982 in Moscow, Russia, and lives in London. He received an MA in Fine Art with Distinction from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, and previously an MPhil in Social and Political Science from the University of Cambridge, and a BA (Hons) in Economics and Sociology from the University of York. Ishchuk was the first non- documentary photographer to win in the British Journal of Photography Awards and has been awarded the Art Omi International Artists Residency. Ishchuk has exhibited internationally, including at such institutions as Whitechapel Gallery, Jerwood Space, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. He was recently recorded for the Tate Audio Arts.

Creator:
Nikolai Ishchuk (1982, Russian)
Creation Year:
2019
Dimensions:
Height: 40.16 in (102 cm)Width: 68.51 in (174 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic Polymer,Silver Gelatin
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU94734574381

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