On December 14, the gallery of the Institute for the Humanities and Information Technologies (IGUMO) will present the online exhibition titled ‘Fossils’ by Andrey Akimov, artist, photographer, and the Institute’s lecturer. The photos capture paleontological artifacts aged over hundreds of millions of years.
Andrey Akimov’s project was presented at the portfolio review of the PhotoEspana 2019 art festival in Madrid for the first time. In 2020, the project also took part in the State Tretyakov Gallery’s group exhibition titled The Book of Nature and caused a wide resonance in the professional community.
For three years, Andrey Akimov photographed real objects from the museum collection of the Paleontological Institute. To enhance the impression of the work, the author took pictures of the fossils of prehistoric dragonflies, fish, shells, and reptiles against a deep black background.
In many of the photographs, you can see objects that are extinct. For example, ammonites disappeared together with the dinosaurs. Today, only fossils found by scientists remind us about their existence.
Andrey Akimov is the first photographer in Russia who uses the technique of multilayer relief pigmentary printing in art photography. Thus, he gives his works the effect of three-dimensional objects.
At the offline exhibition of the Fossils project, the viewer can not only see the work but also touch it and feel the connection with the distant past of our planet.
A series of photographs by Andrey Akimov is a profound philosophical work. It makes us reflect on the evolutionary processes on Earth and the relationship of people with time and space.
The online exhibition of the project will be open until February 15, 2021.
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Translated by Nikolay Gavrilov
11.12.2020
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