‘Time and Tide’ by Katya Evdokimova

‘Time and Tide’
Joint show of recent work by two leading Russian photographers
Al Lapkovsky and Millennium contributor Katya Evdokimova,

To see a gallery of Katya's work please click here

Monday 29th June – Saturday 18th July 2009

Hay Hill Gallery
23 Cork Street
Mayfair W1S 3NJ
020 7734 7010
www.hayhill.com

• ‘Time and Tide’ is the joint London show of two London-based award winning Russian photographers Al Lapkovsky and Katya Evdokimova
• ‘Time and Tide’ also introduces an unprecedented collection of 50 iconic bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin
• This collection of posthumous production works are cast from foundry plasters
• Exhibition opens Monday 29th June 2009
• ‘Time and Tide’ is to be held at the Hay Hill Gallery, 23 Cork Street, Mayfair

‘Time and Tide’, a joint show of the most recent work by internationally recognised London-based Russian photographers Al Lapkovsky and Katya Evdokimova. These works will be exhibited alongside seminal works by Auguste Rodin at the Hay Hill Gallery, 23 Cork Street from Monday 29th June – Saturday 18th July 2009.

Both Lapkovsky and Evdokimova have won many photographic awards including Professional Photographer of the Year and the International Photographic Awards and often work together. Their clients range from Bosch, The Sunday Times, Vauxhall, The Independent and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and regularly contribute to international newspapers and magazines.

Lapkovsky’s collection of works in this exhibition juxtapose the surreal and the ordinary enabling the viewer to take a leap of imagination and look at our ordinary lives through the realms of fantasy.

The Ghost City Project offers us a glimpse of the future that awaits our familiar urban environment, should global warming continue. This can be seen in ‘London Ghost City 9’, where the iconic image of Big Ben has a surreal decay about it.

‘Muse is Dead’ offers a study in lasting and temporary beauty; and in ‘Restore Me’ and ‘Untitled 3’, the images offer an insight to what the artist saw and felt at the time the work was being created.

In his black and white works ‘Project 55-5’ and ‘Project 55-2’, the artist’s concept began with close up of a violin player to illustrate the relationship between the artist and his instrument. This concept was expanded when two almost identical images were juxtaposed as a diptych, with vital elements changed to heighten the play on reality. In ‘Project 55-5’ the piano has been removed, so the pianist seems to ‘play’ the ‘memory’ of the piano. In the second ‘Project 55-2’ image, the artist continues to play the violin despite being nude, completely altering his personality from image to image.

Evdokimova’s series “Alter Ego” on the other hand depict the human body as an art work, offering the viewer glimpses, viewed through a veil of hand-made paper as though seen through an old and decayed wall, torn to review the naked flesh beneath. The figures are backlit, illustrating her mastery of chiaroscuro, and perhaps referring back to the Indonesian shadow puppets and magic lantern shows of yesterday.

This exhibition offers an unprecented opportunity to view these works by these leading contemporary photographers, alongside some 50 of Auguste Rodin’s seminal bronzes. The nude studies of Eve, Age of Bronze and The Thinker all have a resonance with Evdokimova’s studies.

Katya Evdokimova:

Awards:
• Professional Photographer of the Year 2008/09: Shortlisted – Fine Art Category
Professional Photographer Magazine UK
• London Photographic Awards, The World Through Your Eyes, Honourable Mention, UK 2009
• ‘1,000 image for a Single Right’, Overall Winner, British Council (Colombia), 2009
• Environmental Photographer of the Year 2008: Climate Change Category, UK
• International Photography Awards, Honourable Mention, US 2008
• Sony World Photography Awards, Shortlisted, Fashion & Music, 2008
• International Garden Photographer of the Year, Commended, UK 2008
• Hasselblad Masters, Semi-Finalist, 2008
• London Photographic Awards, ‘Renaissance’, Bronze, UK 2008
• Photographer’s Forum Magazine, Honourable Mention, 27th Annual Spring Photography Contest, US 2007
• Panasonic Lumix Award, Monthly Winner, 2007
• Professional Photographer of the Year 2005/06, Portrait Category, Professional Photographer Magazine, UK
• Dostoyevsky ‘Crime & Punishment’ Winner of Guardian/Penguin Cover Competition, UK 2006
• Photographer’s Forum Magazine, Honourable Mention, 26th annual Spring Photography contest, US 2006
• Handicap International, 2nd place UK 2006
• Climb, Bronze, UK 2005
• St Mary’s Biennal, Bronze, UK 2004
• Samaritans, Commended, UK 2004
• Climb, Overall Winner, UK 2004
• Mencap, UK 2004

Group / Solo Exhibitions:
• 2009 The London Photographic Association, Constructing Evidence, The Assembly Rooms UK
• 2009 London Photographic Awards, The World Through Your Eyes, Business Design Centre, London, UK
• 2009 The Royal Photographic Society 152th International Print Exhibition, UK
• 2009 Idea Generation Gallery, Rennaissance, UK
• 2009 Los Andes University, British Council, Bogota, Colombia
• 2008 The Art Pavilion, Environmental Photographer of the Year, UK
• 2008 Proud Gallery, Rennaissance, Lavender Trust, UK
• 2007 Exhibition of First International Juried Competition, Plates to Pixels, US
• 2007 Humble Arts Foundation, Group Show 19 (online), US
• 2007 The Cooper Union, Indwelling, New York, US
• 2007 Musée de L’Elysée’s, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2006 Scope Art Fair, London, UK
• 2006 The National Art Gallery of Kosova
• 2006 FREVD gallery/bar London, UK
• 2004 The Royal Photographic Society 147th International Print Exhibition, UK
• 2004 Royal Mencap Society, V&A Museum, London, UK
• 2004 Mersey River Festival, Liverpool, UK
• 2004 Samaritans, Connection, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, UK

Publications:
• The Wolf, Issue 19, Artist in Residence, UK 2009
• Antilipseis, Issue 14, Greece 2008
• DayFour, The New Constallations, UK 2008
• Light & Lens: Photography of the Digital Age, Focal Press, US 2007
• JPG Magazine, Issue 9, US 2007
• Soura Magazine, UAE 2006
• DayFour, Winter notes on Summer impressions, UK 2006
• Photography Monthly, UK June 2006
• Filteredmagazine (online) 2006
• Shots 88, US 2005
• Fstopmagazine (online) US 2005/06
• Filemagazine (online) US 2005
• Understanding Us - Volume ii, Mencap, UK 2005
• Design A Laminate, Formica, UK 2005
• Endframe, British Journal of Photography, UK 9/06/2004
• Black and White Photography, UK 2004/2005