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...This photographic art seeks new realities and definitions. It breaks down the principles of modernism and ideological forms of culture. This is an art an open-ended process of invention without formalism, which uses art history while denying it. If the postmodern era reconfirms the end of modernisms - in part as a conceived mirror echoing itself - then the Cherkashins are helping to lay the groundwork for a new era of possibilities in Russia and the world. Their art, within the present photographic milieu beyond the modern era, is necessary to understand for another history, which is being written.
Steve Yates
Curator of Photography
Senior Fulbright Scholar, USSR 1991 and Russia 1995
Museum of Fine Arts,
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
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