ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body border="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" link="#336666" alink="#999999" vlink="#999999" text="#000000"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="800"> <tr height="322"> <td height="322"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="800" height="322" border="0"> <param name="movie" value="../../flash/navigation_englisch.swf"> <param name="quality" value="best"> <param name="play" value="true"> <embed src="../../flash/navigation_englisch.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="322" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="best" play="true"> </object> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-image:url(../../bilder/hintergrund_top.png); background-position:top|center; background-repeat:no-repeat;"> <br><br><br> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" background="../../bilder/hintergrund_border.png"> <tr> <td width="40"></td> <td valign="top" colspan="3"> <font color="#336666" face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="../archiv.html">Archive</a> &gt; Key to the City<br></font> <div align="center"> <p><font color="#336666" face="Verdana" size="2"><b>&quot;Key to the City&quot;</b><br> <br> Exhibition dates: January 14, 2009 - February 15, 2009<br> <br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/pretro.html">Korinna Pretro</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/lagutin.html">Peter Lagutin</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/ivanov.html">Alexander Ivanov</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/lukka.html">Waleri Lukka</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/gerzowskaja.html">Marina Gerzowskaja</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/roshdestwenskaja.html">Galina Roshdestwenskaja</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/reichet.html">Peter Reichet</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/lukaschenok.html">Prof. A. Lukaschenok</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/lozmann.html">Alexander Lozmann</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/smirnowa.html">Olga Smirnova</a><br> <a href="../../kuenstler_english/flegontow.html">Dmitri Flegontov</a><br> </font></p> </div> <br> <br> </td> <td width="40"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40"><font size="1">&nbsp;</font></td> <td width="350" valign="top"> <img src="../../bilder/galerie_fortak_5_6_09.jpg" border="0"><br> <br> <font color="#336666" face="Verdana" size="1"> Galerie Fortak. June 05, 2009<br> <br> <br> </font> </td> <td width="20" valign="top"><font size="1">&nbsp;</font></td> <td width="350" valign="top"> <font color="#336666" face="Verdana" size="2"> <b>THE KEY TO THE WHITE NIGHTS</b><br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;...While looking at the art images, we all are involved in the process of translation of different cultural codes imbedded in the visual language of images, allusions and context.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This exhibition, carefully and with care assembled by our charming gallerist, is shrewdly titled &quot;Der Schl&uuml;ssel zur Stadt&quot;. This key is actually art  the art about that city and created by those who live or work there.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What kind of a key it might be?  The art can be considered as an illustration to what once was called &quot;the Petersburgian text of Russian culture&quot;. &quot;The Petersburgian text&quot; is a very special text created about this city or  which is more interesting  not &quot;about&quot; the city in the narrow sense, but still relevant to it because the city influenced those who breathe its seductive atmosphere...<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And the artists showed at this exhibition demonstrate this cultural richness  of traditions and associations  very well.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As a result, the cultural image of Sankt Petersburg is very diverse, unreal. It has always been full of European architecture, art, fashions, and ideas  but all of them had to be domesticated on the marshy unsteady lands of unhealthy weather and unsavory political climate. This is the root of dreamlike (or sometimes outright nightmarish) atmosphere of the Petersburgian text of Russian culture  from carnivalesque Petersburgian Stories of Gogol to surreal worlds of some of the artists on these walls.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This event is called &quot;White Nights in Berlin&quot;  because as modest as it is, it brings that very special atmosphere of St. Petersburg, with its beauty, spirituality and absurdity, a bit closer to Berlin.<br> <br> <div align="right"> Prof. Evgeny Steiner,<br> Research Forum,<br> The Courtauld Institute of Art, London<br> </div> <br> </font> </td> <td width="40"><font size="1">&nbsp;</font></td> </tr> </table> <br> <font face="Verdana" size="1" color="black"> <a href="../vorwort.html">GALLERY</a> l <a href="../aktuell.html">CURRENT EXHIBITION</a> l <a href="../archiv.html">ARCHIVE</a> l <a href="../kuenstler.html">ARTISTS</a> l <a href="../kataloge.html">CATALOGUES</a> l <a href="../service.html">SERVICES</a> l <a href="../reisen.html">ART &amp; TRAVEL</a> l <a href="../kontakt.html">IMPRESSUM</a> <br> <br> </font> <a href="mailto:fortak@web.de"><img src="../../bilder/adresszeile_engl.gif" width="780" height="32" border="0"></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>