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Sergey Bratkov - How Much?

28 March - 09 May 2010


In 2006 Deweer Gallery presented Sergey Bratkov's first one-man show, "Dream Rooms". For the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, in his native country Ukraine, the artist made a magnificent series of wide panoramic photographs imbued with love and illustrative for the state of things. The style and approach are typically Bratkov: a mix of intelligence, wit and irony, of anachronisms and absurdities. Bratkov comments: "I felt I had to make a monument in the shape of a book. I travelled through the entire country and selected 57 photographs." In this one-man show Deweer Gallery showed a selection of 12 works from the series as a world-première. Bratkov made a room filling installation, adding the two videoworks "Mobilochka" (2009) and "Egg-Plants" (2009). Bratkov has always made videoworks and he likes it more and more to combine video and photography for several reasons. First, he uses the medium because interpreting both dynamic and static images at the same time makes the audience loose their sense of time. Second, a mix like that allows him to increase the emotional temperature of the show. And third, they allow to organise the space of the exhibition, like it is often done with sculptures.