We invite you to the White Gallery at 16.02.2015 at the personal exhibition of Benjamin Golubitsky "Greenland".
For visitors the exhibition will be open from 16.02.2015 – 31.03.2015.
Tell me, weren't you in Greenland? So I wasn't too. And, most likely, will not be. And Benjamin Golubitsky spent there more than one day. And, as always at the personal journeys through the world with a camera. Impressions of Greenland captured by it formed this exhibition.
It is, perhaps, not for tourists – the largest and most northerly island of the planet. Legendary Viking Erik the Red, in the ninth century stepped into this territory rashly called it the green land. But, as evidenced by the camera lens, in the country of eternal ice dominate entirely different colours. This is a world of snow and rock, world of water vastness and the celestial twilight. It seems as if it is filmed not is the Earth, but it is captured another planet. Primeval world not needed in Homo sapiens. Extra-human world. And those pictures where into the frame get the local inhabitants or reach almost western tip of the Arctic Asians, especially emphasize the optionality of their presence here.
All that has been created with hands and mind of man – whether residential or industrial buildings, whether the court of different carrying capacity – looks not so much a toy, but easily eliminated on the background of rocks, blocks of ice and leaving behind the horizon the sea. Perhaps the only frame where human organically fit into the landscape silence – it is a snapshot of the local cemetery. Places where human brevity merges with indifferent eternity.
Commensurable in this world are not human and earthly, but earthly and heavenly. The camera captures a truly cosmic power of opening here nature. Endless fjords that look wrinkled of the Earth itself. Ice hummocks that laying on the sea surface. Tired sun, habitually staying in the sunset extinction of always low sky. And imagine that not icebergs are in an endless drift appearing in front of us, and the island itself absorbed the silence of the ice drift among icebergs and snow blocks.
Photo artist lucky enough to see the epic scale of the natural reality and manifest its true artistic expression: how everything here is in proportion, agreed calibrated. Now this alien we can also see.
