Maksim Tarasov
Max. 500 m
Aerial Photography
May 16-31, 2016

About the project

In the history of art culture the significance of the landscape was changed dramatically. Starting from a secondary role, it consistently takes a leading position, becoming not only a main character but also an epic creative energy that is giving inspiration. Artists were attracted by inclusiveness of nature, its variability and specific character. In the beginning of the 20th century aspiring to find new forms of art, abstractionists refused to use natural scenes, sincerely thinking that abstracting from nature was the best way of a pure experiment. So "non-imitation" of environment was considered to be a truly free art. It followed that natural and abstractive terms were believed to be opposing and mutually denying phenomena. But they were wrong - actually the main thing was the viewpoint.

"The perfect shot is the discovery". Perhaps, just this idea opens the creative position of the author and the artist with keen and not indifferent look. The project "Max.š500šm." has two creators: Maksim Tarasov and the drone "DJI Phantom 3" that became the real co-creator. Together they found out that a landscape could be abstract: recognizable and well-known images could be suddenly changed, childhood memories could be given with new colors, and commonplace things could become unique. The artistic potential of nature is unlimited but it's so easy to lose sight of something magnificent and make an ordinary photo. In landscape photography not only technical capabilities of photographer are important but also his artistic point of view, passion and attention with which he captures his "model". In this dialogue the way of creating an artwork loses its importance but in our case it plays a significant role. Thanks to technical capacities of the drone and Maksim Tarasov's ability to capture an unusual moment, we've got now the opportunity to see the world from the height and experience a new kind of contemplation. Art can't exist probably without nature - one of the sources of inspiration, and thanks to digital technology our experiments with visual images continue.

Anna Legotina