"Details of Moscow", Vladislav Efimov´s exhibition

Description of the project by The Museum of Moscow and the “Triumph” Gallery

The Museum of Moscow and the “Triumph” Gallery present a total installation of Vladislav Efimov “Details of Moscow” - 850 works with views of the capital.

With this project Vladislav Efimov investigates, overall, the mechanic relationship between photographic practice and  space. His photographs, taken with a camera held at the waist level without looking into viewfinder, focus on the details unnoticeable at the first glance: fences, walls, signs.

The artist does not apply any type of effects and does not aspire to beautify reality - he portrays the city as it is, as citizens see it in their day to day life. Nevertheless, all together these works create a vivid and contrasting image of the capital. The project "Details of Moscow”, along with the usual views from the postcards, allows to recover a total image of this complex and diverse city.

This exhibition in the Museum of Moscow is the second part of his Three Photographic projects trilogy. Inaugurated with the project "Under the feet and over the head" (2013, NCCA, Moscow) about the author´s personal vision of the world, it will be closed with the project "Half is enough“, investigating the efficacy and ability of the photographic language to convey a complete artistic message with only a half, either one at the viewer´s choice, of an "ideal" photograph. 

As Efimov notes: “a clear tendency leading to self-insufficiency of photographic statement in artistic space forces to rearrange the practice of traditional “author´s” photography and move in direction of, to my mind, last strong quality of photography - it´s ability to mechanically produce perfect picture. Thanks to this "mechanical" limitation, the photographic language also allows us to see deeplier into the human problems related to the importance of the individual perception, the focus of the author´s attention and the search for the artistic ideas."

Several conferences with Vladislav Efimov and the photography critic and curator Vladimir Levashov and some guided tours with the author and the exhibition curator Kristina Romanova (“Triumph” Gallery and Department of Research Arts) will take place during the exhibition. 

Vladislav Efimov (b. 1964, Moscow), artist, photographer, lecturer at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, the course “Project Photography”. Vladislav took part in many solo and group exhibitions. His works are in collections of the Russian State Museum (Saint-Petersburg), The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris) and others. Vladislav Efimov is the winner of Innovation (2208) and Golden Ratio awards (2007, 2013).