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    White Space Gallery is displaying 45 previously unseen Polaroid photographs by legendary Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-1986). The exhibition coincides with the release of a book featuring the Polaroids and a limited edition portfolio. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers, Tarkovsky made just eight films but each was a masterpiece. The Polaroids were taken in Russia and Italy between 1979-1984 and demonstrate Tarkovsky's singular visual style, with scenes that complement his films Mirror and Nostalgia. The exhibition aims to show the inseparability of Tarkovsky's art and life.

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    White Space Gallery is displaying 45 previously unseen Polaroid photographs by legendary Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-1986). The exhibition coincides with the release of a book featuring the Polaroids and a limited edition portfolio. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers, Tarkovsky made just eight films but each was a masterpiece. The Polaroids were taken in Russia and Italy between 1979-1984 and demonstrate Tarkovsky's singular visual style, with scenes that complement his films Mirror and Nostalgia. The exhibition aims to show the inseparability of Tarkovsky's art and life.

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    White Space Gallery is displaying 45 previously unseen Polaroid photographs by legendary Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-1986). The exhibition coincides with the release of a book featuring the Polaroids and a limited edition portfolio. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers, Tarkovsky made just eight films but each was a masterpiece. The Polaroids were taken in Russia and Italy between 1979-1984 and demonstrate Tarkovsky's singular visual style, with scenes that complement his films Mirror and Nostalgia. The exhibition aims to show the inseparability of Tarkovsky's art and life.

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    Polaroids bv Andrev Tarkovskv
    22 November 2007 - 20 Januarv 2008

    Wednesday 21 November
    Panel Discussion 6 pm
    Opening Reception 7-9 pm
    White Space Gallery


    White Space Gallery, in association with the Tarkovsky Foundation, is to display
    forty-five previously unseen photographs by the legendary Russian filmmaker
    Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-1986). This touring exhibition will coincide with the
    launch of the book, Bright, bright day, published by White Space Gallery and the
    Tarkovsky Foundation, as well as the release of a limited edition portfolio of
    polaroids. These events, and others celebrating the 75th anniversary of the
    filmmaker`s birth, including screenings at the Curzon Mayfair (7-13 Dec), are
    part of the Tarkovsky Festival in London (Nov 07- 1an 08).

    Andrey Tarkovsky is considered by many to be one oI the greatest Iilmmakers the
    world has ever seen. Although he made just eight Ieature Iilms beIore his liIe was cut
    tragically short by cancer, at the age oI 54, each is an artistic masterpiece and a major
    landmark in world cinema. The Iocus oI the exhibition is an array oI previously
    unseen polaroids Irom the Florence-based Tarkovsky Foundation archive, which is
    maintained by the Iilmmaker`s son Andrey Tarkovsky. Taken in Russia and Italy
    between 1979 and 1984, ranging Irom romantic landscapes and studied portraits to
    private shots oI the auteur`s Iamily and Iriends including the distinguished
    scriptwriter Tonino Guerra all the photographs demonstrate the singular
    compositional and visual-poetic ability oI this master image-maker. This show pairs
    Tarkovsky`s polaroids with projected scenes Irom his movies, emphasizing the total
    aesthetic vision that pervaded all aspects oI his creative liIe. Many oI the polaroids
    that were created in Russia complement and extend the personal imagery oI the Iilm
    Mirror (1974). Equally rewarding cross-Iertilization is apparent in the images that
    were taken in Italy while he was travelling with Tonino Guerra and preparing
    Nostalgia (1983). Indeed, Irom when Michelangelo Antonioni Iirst gave Tarkovsky
    the Polaroid camera as a giIt, in the 1970s, it rarely leIt his side.

    Where does art end and liIe begin? As this exhibition will make clear, Ior Tarkovsky
    there could be no division.

    Andrey Tarkovsky`s Polaroids coincides with the release oI a limited edition
    portIolio by White Space Gallery and the Tarkovsky Foundation.
    The exhibition is accompanied by the launch oI the book Bright, bright dav at
    Paris Photo 2007. It Ieatures articles by leading critics and the most
    comprehensive published selection oI Tarkovsky`s polaroids, edited by the
    British photographer Stephen Gill. It also Ieatures poems by Arseniy
    Tarkovsky, Andrey Tarkovsky`s essay on photography and 1930-s Tarkovsky
    Iamily photographs by Lev Gornung.
    This exhibition, along with launch oI the Russian edition oI the book will
    continue on to venues in Moscow and Verona in 2008.

    Andrey Arsenievich Tarkovsky was born on 4 April 1932 in Zavrazhie village on the
    Volga. He was the son oI the poet Arseni Tarkovsky and Maria Ivanovna
    Vishniakova. His parents divorced while he was still a child. His Iather`s poetry
    Ieatures in Mirror, Stalker and Nostalgia, while his mother makes an appearance in
    Mirror. Tarkovsky studied Arabic at the Moscow Institute oI Oriental Languages
    between 1951 and 1954 and Geology in Siberia, beIore enrolling in the Iamous VGIK
    Moscow Iilm school in 1959. In 1960 he made his prize-winning graduation short,
    The Steamroller and the Jiolin. In the early 1980s, Tarkovsky leIt Russia
    permanently. The Iew remaining years oI his liIe were plagued by a constant struggle
    with the Soviet authorities to allow his Iamily, particularly his young son, Andrey, to
    join him. His Iilmmaking career started again in Italy where he Iollowed the
    television documentary Tempo di viaggio (1983) with his most accomplished Iilm
    since Mirror, Nostalgia, written in collaboration with the distinguished screenwriter
    Tonino Guerra. By the time Tarkovsky started work on his Iinal Iilm, The Sacrifice,
    he knew he was seriously ill with cancer. He died on 29 December 1986 and was
    buried at the Russian cemetery Sainte- Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris.

    Films and other productions:
    The Steamroller and the Violin (short, 1960)
    Ivan`s Childhood (1962)
    Andrei Rublev (1966 rel. 1971)
    Solaris (1972)
    Mirror (1974)
    Hamlet (1977) - The Lenkom Theatre (Moscow)
    Stalker (1979)
    Tempo di viaggio (1983) TV documentary
    Nostalgia (1983)
    Moussorgsky`s opera Boris Godunov (1983) -
    Covent Garden (London)
    The SacriIice (1986)
    Awards:
    Venice Film Festival, Lion oI St. Mark Award, best Iilm, 1962,
    Ior Ivans Childhood;
    Cannes Film Festival, International Critics Award, 1969,
    Ior Andrei Rublev;
    Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize oI the Jury Award, 1972,
    Ior Solaris;
    Merited Artistic Worker oI the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist
    Republic (RSFSR), 1974;
    Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize oI the Jury Award, best
    screenplay, 1983, Ior Nostalgia;
    Cannes Film Festival Award, Prize Ior First Work-Full Length
    Films, 1983;
    Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prix, 1986, Ior The Sacrifice;
    Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize oI the Jury Award, 1986,
    Ior The Sacrifice;
    British Academy Film and Television Arts Award, best Ioreign
    language Iilm, 1988, Ior The Sacrifice

    White Space Gallery, St Peter`s Church, Vere Street, London W1G ODQ.
    Open Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 6pm, and Saturday - Monday by
    appointment. Nearest tube: Bond St.
    For further information and images contact Anya Stonelake
    on tarkovskywhitespacegallery.co.uk or +44 (0) 7949 100956
    www.whitespacegallery.co.uk www.tarkovsky-festival.co.uk

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