Exhibition by Eduard Stranadko, The Nineties, February 14 – February 28, 2013 | The Regional Organizing and Methodic Center of Culture and Arts

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Exhibition by Eduard Stranadko, The Nineties, February 14 – February 28, 2013

1 009Exhibition by Poltava photographer Eduard Stranadko, The Nineties was opened on February 14 at the Center of Culture and Art. The photographs taken in the late 80’s - early 90’s are presented. The negatives, until recently, had been in the safe of the bank in Berlin, and Eduard Stranadko had great difficulty to bring them back to Ukraine.

‘The nineties is a significant period for our generation, which formed certain worldview,’ director of the Kharkiv Center of Culture and Art, Tetiana Ishchenko said. ‘In this regard, Eduard Stranadko’s philosophical view of life, appearing in his works, is of particular interest. The emotions are not bright in them, but they are very subtle and deep. Regarding the number of guests who came to the opening of the exhibition by reaction, by calls, out of interest arising due to the announcement of the event, we understand how important this photographer is for modern Ukrainian culture.’

1 044The 90s of the previous century were the time saturated ‘with oxygen’ for the photographer Eduard Stranadko. As he thinks of it, the oxygen is a break of different eras, when the old pattern of life crumbles, but the new one has not come yet. That's when everything, and especially artists, feels the new ideas floating in air, new meanings, new and creative solutions that serve as the harbingers of historic change. ‘For many people the 90s are associated with sports pants, gangs, murders, but for me all of these bandits were my sponsors,’ Eduard Stranadko smiles.

‘There was A., who has had a shop at Piat Uglov (TN: Five Corners Square). I asked him for money for the exhibition. He said, ‘Sure, come to Pushkinskaya Square near the museum.’ I looked: two cars pulled up, the bandits came out... It turned out, they came to him for money, too. I got in line. And he gave me the money for the exhibition.’

1 112Moscow and Poltava are captured in the photographs presented at the new exhibition, and one photo has been taken in Kharkiv, where Natalia Scarlatti, Eduard Stranadko’s wife, is posing against the background of the Kharkiv embankment.

‘The photographs at this exhibition, this is what I could take with me to the grave, so to speak,’ the photographer admits. ‘The negatives of these photographs were in the safe of the West Berlin bank for 20 years. I had a love in Berlin. I brought her all the negatives, all of the pictures, and she somehow thought, they belonged to her. I had great difficulty to get the film back. I developed them and digitized, now they are exhibited.’

The girls have played a crucial role for Eduard Stranadko in fascination with the photography.

‘What people are interested in when they are young? How to approach the girls? Be close to them? You must be either a photographer, or a physician. And I’ve become a photographer, because you need to study to be a physician, and you don’t to be a photographer. I shot my first photographic film when I was 12 years. I took grandpa’s camera, loaded the film and went to take photographs. I shot some woman from the back. At that time I was afraid to come close. I still have this first film at my place.’

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The current exhibition by Eduard Stranadko has been initiated by the Kharkiv Photographers’ Creative Union.

‘This exhibition is very profound. The photos make to return to them and watch them again and again,’ Volodymyr Ogloblin, a famous photographer in Kharkiv, confessed. ‘The 90s are special years, remaining in the photos and in the memory of people. This is a chamber photographic world, and Stranadko’s photos most fully convey the atmosphere of confusion, sadness, romance, which seems to have gone, but yet anything new has not emerged in its place.’

‘These are not just pictures, this is immersion in the atmosphere of the time. Air, life, people, delicate melancholy,’ Volodymyr Lelyuk, a photographer, said. ‘These pictures are eternal, they are not for one generation, they are for everyone.’

The exhibition is open till February 28 at the Center of Art and Culture in Kharkiv, vul. Pushkinska, 62, Exhibition Hall of the 1st floor. Open hours: 10.00 to 17.30, closed on Sundays.

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