ALEXEY TITARENKO: Saint Petersburg

#1 Untitled (Boy), 1993

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# 5 Untitled (Zigzag Crowd), 1994
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#7 Untitled (Three Women Selling Cigarettes), 1992
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#3 Untitled (Crowd 1), 1992
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"A crowd of people flowing near the subway station formed a sort of human sea, providing me with a feeling of non-reality, a phantasmagoria. These people resembled shadows from the underworld, a world visited by Aeneas, Virgil’s character. My impressions as well as my emotional state were enormously profound and long lasting. I felt an intense urge to articulate this suffering and despair, to visualize the “peopleghosts,” to awaken empathy and love for my native city’s inhabitants, people who have been constantly victimized and ruined during the course of the twentieth century."

–Alexey Titarenko

ALEXEY TITARENKO: Saint Petersburg in Four Movements
Through April 24, 2010
NAILYA ALEXANDER GALLERY