“Moments of the life stream” seen and captured by a big master
Boris Mikhalevkin (b. 1930) is a member of the Union of Photo artists and the Union of Artists of Russia. His achievements include numerous awards in professional competitions, prizes in different photo contests, in 1995 he was granted a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
Works of Boris Mikhalevkin were presented at twenty seven solo exhibitions. They are displayed in the Museum of Vatican, Museum of Fine Arts (New Mexico, USA), Museum of Photography (Bievres, France) and form part of many other collections in different institutions of France, USA, Lithuania, Russia, including collection of Norton and Nancy Dodge which is the biggest collection of the Soviet Nonconformist Art.
One of the artist's characteristics is that he perceives nature of photo art as space for dialogue between author and life and trusts black-and-white imagery completely.
Boris Mikhalevkin possesses a unique gift of being able to see and express harmony of a "moment of life", every day routine. His works are marked by ingenuousness of feelings combined with complex and refined composition. Photographs by Mikhalevkin are, according to the widely known definition, "moments of the life stream" seen and captured by a big master with an intent, enraptured, but at the same time ironic eye.
Location: House of Cinema, Karavannaya str., 12
Mikhalevkin Boris Gavrilovich born 24 March 1930 in Leningrad. In October 1945, he entered the vocational school # 8, to be trained as an electrician. During his military service in 1953, he taught himself to play guitar. In 1958, he began working as an instrumentalist for the Leningrad-based concert establishments — a job that allowed him to travel all over the Soviet Union. He received a Zenit photo camera as a birthday present from his colleague musicians and started taking pictures. Later, upon his return to Leningrad, one of his earliest photographs was awarded the 1st place certificate at the All-Russian exhibition in Moscow. After his second child was born, Mikhalevkin quit his musical career. In 1965, he secured a job as an electrician at the Morphyspribor Central Research Institute. In 1966, he launched his first solo photography exhibition at the institute. He attended the meetings of the photo clubs at the Lensoveta, Vyborgsky and Gorky DKs. He joined the Zerkalo photo club in 1980, being already an accomplished artist. He was the Deputy Chair of the club’s Board and the author of the club’s anthem. From 1980 until 1988, he repeatedly visited Syktyvkar, Barnaul, Kiev, Daugavpils, Dnepropetrovsk, Vladivostok and Murmansk, representing Zerkalo with his solo exhibitions. In 1989, he quit Zerkalo. Until 1999, he worked as a CNC machines setter at Morphyspribor. Boris Mikhalevkin died in 2011.
ROSPHOTO presents the jubilee exhibition by Boris Mikhalevkin.
More than 100 works by the famous Soviet photo club's members.
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