Circle quadrature (2024) Photography by Ekaterina Kastalskaya
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- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Categories Abstract Architecture
The photo shows a view from below of the column and roof of the Soviet monumental classicist building.
This is Dom Tvorchestva Peredelkino, built in 1955.
🟦 At one time or another Peredelkino became home to Boris Pasternak, Isaac Babel, Boris Pilnyak, Alexander Fadeev, Valentin Kataev, Korney Chukovsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Lilya Brik, Fazil Iskander, Yuri Mamleev, Bulat Okudzhava, Vasily Aksenov, and Arseniy Tarkovsky.
Many prominent writers, poets, translators, playwrights, literary critics would come to stay at Dom Tvorchestva, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Akhmatova, Viktor Shklovsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginzberg.
✔️ The decree of the Council of People's Commissars "On the construction of the City of Writers" was issued on July 19, 1933.
Lists of the first residents - at first only 30 dachas were built - were discussed a lot before approval. They were Pasternak, Pilnyak, Pavlenko, Poor, Ivanov, Malyshkin, Gladkov, Leonov, Erenburg, Panfenov, Shaginyan, Bakhmetyev, Babel and other famous writers of the time.
It was decided that the dachas built with state money would be assigned to the writers for life. And six months after the death of the owner, a meeting would decide on a new tenant.
Now not every house is open for excursions, some have people living in them. But you can look into the house-museums of Chukovsky, Pasternak, Okudzhava, the gallery-museum of Yevtushenko.
✔️ Envisioned as a place of temporary residence where Soviet writers could engage in their work, Dom Tvorchestva was a major landmark in Peredelkino. Back in the Soviet times, Dom Tvorchestva belonged to the Literary Fund of the USSR Writers' Union. The main building was built in 1955 and a decade later Dom Tvorchestva was expanded to include a new glass building with a cinema hall, a bar, and a library. In the 1990s, Dom Tvorchestva was abandoned, then the main building briefly served as a boarding house, while the other became a mediocre restaurant.
In August 2020, Dom Tvorchestva experienced a renaissance: the once-famous club with a cinema hall, library and reading room reopened. Now Dom Tvorchestva hosts literary events, concerts, lectures and readings. The park is being reconstructed along with a 1930s dacha designed by Ernst May, a German architect and a pioneering figure in urban planning.
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Ekaterina began photographing as a teenager at the age of 14. And of course, it was analog photography. Shooting on a Zenith, playing with exposure, developing and hand printing.
In the 2000's came the era of digital photography, and from the middle of the decade Ekaterina began to engage in reportage photography.
In 2016, she returned to analog photography again.
Now in her work she explores association as a way to connect pictures of the surrounding reality with sensory experience. Her photographs reference books she has read, movies she has watched, music videos, works of art, and simple stories that happen in everyone's life.
The genre of portraiture attracts her with its ability to show the human gaze and real emotion, be it joy, peace, tension, dramatic strife in the soul.
Ekaterina prefers to capture the moment when shooting and takes a film camera even on a simple walk in the park.
- Nationality: RUSSIA
- Date of birth : 1981
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists