Valery Katsuba. Wrestlers at the Gran Prince Vladimir Palace, 2002 Valery Katsuba

Valery Katsuba. Wrestlers at the Gran Prince Vladimir Palace, 2002

Name: Valery Katsuba. Wrestlers at the Gran Prince Vladimir Palace, 2002
Brand: Valery Katsuba
Price: 8000.0 USD
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$8,000.00 USD

Artist: Valery Katsuba
Certification of Authenticity: Apricus Art Collection
Signature:Signed by Artist

Valery Katsuba. Wrestlers at the Gran Prince Vladimir Palace, 2002. edition 2/10 (135 x 100 cm):

8000.00

Valery Katsuba. Wrestlers at the Gran Prince Vladimir Palace, 2002. edition 1/6 (175 x 128 cm):

10000.00

Valery Katsuba. Wrestlers at the Gran Prince Vladimir Palace, 2002. edition 1/6 (100 x 73 cm):

6000.00

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On the photograph two athletes wrestling in the Raspberry living room of the palace (build in 1864 in St. Petersburg) what belonged to the younger brother of the Russian tsar Alexander the Third. The photograph started the artist´s project of “Imaginary Sculptures” later continued in Madrid, La Habana and Mexico City.

The photograph was firstly shown in the artist exhibition PHISCULTURA in Madrid in Circulo de Bellas Artes in 2006 and was published in the book with the same name. The first print of the edition is in the collection of the Contemporary Art Museum of the 2 of May in Madrid.

Analog photography. Printed on Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique 310 g/m. Available edition 2/10 of the size 135 x 100 cm; edition 1/6 of the size 150 x 128 cm and edition 1/6 of the size 100 x 75 cm.

All photographs are signed at the back and certificates of authenticity are provided.

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Artist Biography

Exhibited in Madrid, Phiscultura (Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2006, from which a book, produced by the Community of Madrid, was published); in Paris at the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture (2016); at the Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid, 2017); at the National Museum of San Carlos in Mexico City (2019) at the Museum Center of Photography in Shanghai (2021) and in Photo London (2021) or PHotoESPAÑA, Festival OFF (Morning exhibition that was included by El País in Ten exhibitions of PHE 2023 to not get lost), La 15 Bienal de La Habana (Romantic Realism. Cuba, 2025) among others.

Simultaneously carried out photographic projects for Christian Dior, Max Mara, Jacquemus. Apart from his photographic work, he releases videos, multimedia performances (one of them commissioned by Mick Jagger in 2007) and develops his literary activity. In 2020, his story A Green Bag Full of Wind, about confinement in Madrid, won the prize in the 2020-sos international short fiction competition in Spanish. Now is in the process of publishing his book of stories 22 Stories with an Epilogue, which will be launched in 2025.

Currently his works are in the collections of the Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture (Paris), Dos de Mayo Art Center (Community of Madrid), at the Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid), at Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam (La Habana), at the Shanghai Center of Photography among others.

Born in 1965 in Belarus, USSR. In 1982 he moved to study in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) at the State Maritime and Navigation University and after graduating did a post graduation course (meteorology) for a year. Then left the maritime career and began writing articles and stories about art. Entered artistic circles and in the mid-90s began to dedicate himself to photography.

Since 2015 lives in Madrid.

Artist Statement

"I have always been interested in a non-volatile relative landscapes — whether it is natural landscape or architectural, or even interior of a house, post office, building of a bank, restaurant, museum, theater — and passing them through the historical events, people’s lives. I ask my heroes — athletes, circus performers, ballet dancers, my own friends, laborers or «fathers and sons», if it’s a family portrait, – to stop. They stop in front of the camera as if in front of the infinity of time and space, revealing in them grandeur, beauty and fragility. These I want them to remember and talk about them such, and therefore photograph, believing that art photography will store their elusive images that touched me, or at least do everything I can to store them. Thus, I also seek the interconnection between all times and spaces, through what pleases our eyes and our imagination." Valery Katsuba

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