Implementation of the exhibition project “Young Artists in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes” planned for several years started in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes. It is aimed at presentation and support of young talented artists who take up painting, drawing, photography, and create works of decorative and applied arts. The display titled “Sergey Pesterev. Selected Works” was opened in the administration building of the museum on February 7 within the framework of this project.
Sergey Pesterev was born in the town of Totma, the Vologda region, in 1990. First he studied in the Music and art school, and then, from 2005 through 2010, at the Design Department of the Ivanovo Art Vocational School with a specialization in environmental design.
Sergey worked as an artist in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes in 2010-2011 and served in the army in 2011-2012.
He has been working as an artist of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve since November 2012.
Sergey Pesterev takes up video art and photography, composes music.
He lives in the village Ferapontovo since 2010.
About the photographer
The word “photograph” means painting with light and this meaning gets literal interpretation in the works of Sergey Pesterev. Light gets materiality in his photographs. It does not only dictate the form of the object, it becomes an object, a spot, a stroke and a line itself. The initially chosen object attracts the artist only as an image and the picture which he takes is a variation on the subject of real, to be more exact, a kind of a change from real to abstract. The environment has already been created, and simply copying cannot attract the artist any more. The photograph for him is a not a way to show what has happened and what is happening now. It shows what could have happened at that same moment, but under other perfect conditions, when neither gravitation, nor molecular structure influences the objects. He is not interested in stage photography and therefore he doesn’t interfere in the course of nature trying to change perfect things. With the help of the camera, he just shows possible light paths, watches infinite number of deformations of the chosen object, and creates its invisible motion. And the image gradually gets a new ideal form. The object becomes absolutely unrecognizable, an abstraction, a motive, an idea.
Photographs of Sergey Pesterev are his reflection of the visible real environment producing an expressive image-impression which is emotional and extremely deep. These monumental pictures are always full of movements. You can feel internal resonance even in the most static works. He deliberately chooses watercolour paper for photo printing using its formation for maintenance of internal vibration of the image.
