Artwork information
- Author
- Jury Rupin
- Name
- Phantoms of ballet
- Year
- Before 1974
- Medium
- gelatin silver print, solarization
- Dimensions
- 21x39 cm
- Catalog number
- RUPJ-30(pre1974)
- Inscription
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on the verso side: circled figure “30” in the upper right corner; to the left – stamps “РАДУГА ФОТОКИНОКЛУБ МОГИЛЕВ”, “ХЕРСОНСЬКИЙ ОБЛАСНИЙ ФОТОКЛУБ Управління культури виконкому Херсонської обласної Ради депутатів трудящих”, “Фотоклуб “ОДЕССА” 1957 / FOTOCLUB “ODESSA” 1957″, “ФОТОКЛУБ “ЧАЙКА” КРИМ г. ФЕОДОСИЯ”, “RIGAS KLUSS”; label “Харьковский обласной ФОТОКЛУБ / ЮРИЙ РУПИН Балетные призраки”, stamp with isncription “СССР, 310003, г Харьков-3, А. Я. 185, РУПИН ЮРИЙ К. | USSR 310003, Charkov-3, P. O. Box 185, RUPIN JURIJ K.”
About the artist
Phantoms of ballet
Jury Rupin (1946, Lyman, USSR – 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania) — photographer, one of the founders of Vremia photographic group. Got his first photocamera in 1958. In 1961-1965 attended Slaviansk technical college. Served in the military in 1965-1968, after which graduates from Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute (1969-1974). Enrolled in the Kharkiv regional photoclub at the House of Amateur Artists of trade Unions around 1970-1971 (his name is absent in the journal of photoclub from 1965-1969). At that period meets future members of Vremia group.
In his practice of 1970s Rupin favoured experimental photography and photographics. He was one of the first Kharkiv authors to master colour photography, both for commercial purposes and for art photography, amplifying the dramatic effects of images. Despite nude imagery was tabooed in the Soviet Union, it is this genre that mostly draws the master’s attention. Both male (Sauna series, 1972), and female body allows him to create images of the most abstract notions (“Anxiety, 1973) in the traditions, shaped up within international photography salons. His most bold graphic experiments tend towards abstract language (“Birch trees”, not dated).
According to his autobiographic novel Photographer’s Diary, published in the late 2000s together with other literature works by the author, his photocollage “Night” (1974) was the reason for the dismissal of the photoclub in 1975 or 1976/ In 1979-1985 studies History of Art at Repin Leningrad institute of painting, sculpture and architecture. In 1989 moved together with his family to Vilnius and opened first private gallery “MRK” in Tallinn, Estonia, which worked for three years (1990-1993). In 1990s abandoned art photography and focused on managing the stock photoagency “Rupincom” (1994-2001).
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Photo credit — Alexander Sliussarev, 1980.
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