exhibition in the gallery «Willy Brandt Haus» Berlin, Germany
first prize in the photography contest «SONY World Photography Awards 2017» in the category «Portraiture»
FOTOCULT magazine The magazine has been issued in Rome and distributed around Italy and other countries of Europe since 2003.
exhibition in «Art Dynasty Gallery». Geneva, Switzerland
«Somerset House». London, UK;
”Light. Shadows. Perfect Woman” Photography Series
Unique and famous “Light. Shadows. Perfect Woman” photography series has received many international awards, including the Sony World Photography Awards, where it received the first prize in the “Portrait” category and a nomination for the International Photographer of the Year. The photos from the series were published in dozens of professional publishers, including on the covers of well-known magazines such as Photo Press (Germany), "Foto Cult" (Italy) and many others.
“Light. Shadows. Perfect Woman” photography series has been exhibited in dozens of different galleries and museums around the world, including Somerset House, where the works of photographer Martin Parr were displayed at the same time.
The main list of exhibitions until 2019:
2016
- Aug.- Sept.: exhibition in the gallery «ART Meeting». Nizny Tagil, Russia;
- Sept.- Nov.: exhibition in the gallery «Yekaterinburg Gallery of Wodern Art». Yekaterinburg, Russia;
2017/2018
- Feb.: laureate of the photography contest «Best of Russia 2016» in the category «Style»;
- Feb.- Mar.: exhibition «Best of Russia 2016» in the contemporary art centre «Winzavod». Moscow, Russia. The exhibition was opening by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinskiy;
- Apr.: first prize in the photography contest «SONY World Photography Awards 2017» in the category «Portraiture». The nominee for «Enternational Photographer of the Year».
- Apr. - May: exhibition of «Sony World Photography Awards 2017» in «Somerset House». London, UK;
- July: exhibition of «Sony World Photography Awards 2017» in the gallery «Galerie GADCOLLECTION». Paris, France;
- Sept. - Oct.: exhibition of «Sony World Photography Awards 2017» in the gallery «Sony Imaging Gallery-Ginza». Tokyo, Japan;
- Sept. - Oct.: exhibition of «Sony World Photography Awards 2017» in the gallery «Villa Reale di Monza». Monza, Italy;
- Sept. - Oct.: exhibition «Woman on edge» in a parallel programme of 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in «Gallery of Classic Photography». Moscow, Russia;
- Nov.'17 - Jan. '18: exhibition of «Sony World Photography Awards 2017» in the gallery «Willy Brandt Haus» Berlin, Germany;
- Nov. '17 - Aug. '18: xhibition in «Art Dynasty Gallery». Geneva, Switzerland;
- July - June: exhibition «Best of Russia 2016» в «Kaliningrad Art Gallery». Kaliningrad, Russia
- Dec. '17- Jan. '18: exhibition «Best of Russia 2016» in «Novosibirsk State Museum of Fine Arts». Novosibirsk, Russia;
- Apr.'18- May'18: exhibition in the gallery «Yekaterinburg Gallery of Wodern Art». Yekaterinburg, Russia;
2019
- Feb. - Apr.: exhibition in the gallery «VS Unio Gallery». Moscow, Russia;
George Mayer reveals the project “Light. Shadows. Perfect Woman” through a special camera, the camera of perfectionism. Through this camera the author sees the characters of his photographs: the light, the shadows and the nature of femininity. It is considered a temporal thus it becomes utterly conditional, nearly abstract. The concept of “Perfect woman” refers us to the plot of the film “The Perfect Human” (1967) by the Danish director Jorgen Leth. This short film symbolically depicts the feeling of anxiety and emptiness that haunts the bearers of conditional “perfection”.
Arranging the delicate balance of the correlation of the dark and the light the author discovers the obvious monumentality and duality of a perfect woman’s images. Within the space of the picture, the light becomes flat and the dark gets deeper subjecting all conventionalities and details. This way geometry of light becomes not only sculptural language but also correlates the meanings. “The Perfect” in the author’s photographs is contradictory in nature: on the one hand, it is monumental and complete and on the other hand it is naked and vulnerable. These controversial strains comprise the essential content of the photographer’s works.
