YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Estonian landscape photographer Alexander Gronsky. The show will run from September 6 (Saturday) to October 25 (Saturday) 2014.

About artist and artwork
Alexander Gronsky is notable for his photographic practice forces on landscapes of contemporary Russia, and his works are shown internationally. After the career as a press photographer in Russia and the area of the former Soviet Union since 1999, he came to focus on documentary works from a point of his personal view since 2008. He refers to himself as a landscape photographer. He focuses on vast spaces and investigates how local populations are impacted by the surrounding environment.
In his most of works, he is exploring the very notion of border with composition of horizontal line. At the same time, the borders between suburbs and cities, between infrastructures as heritage of socialism and natural wild,between personal and public space, and between live and dead coexist in a photograph, and they also show the landscape of the land as nondescript places without border.

About the exhibition
In this exhibition, his main series will be shown, including Less than One (2006-2009) centered on the sparsely populated and isolated areas of Russia, The Edge (2008-2009) which he explored the snowy fields surrounding Moscow, where there are many apartments built in the age of the Soviet Union and Pastoral (2008-2012)which he photographed activities of local people in the fringes of Moscow, the suburbs between Russiaʼ’s most populous city and the countryside that surrounds it.
The latest monograph "Less Than One" will be published by TYCOON BOOKS in this occasion. A reception for the artist will be held on October 3rd, and also talk event and book signing will be scheduled (detail will be anounced).

［作家プロフィール］
Born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia. Currently based in Riga, Latvia. After press photographer, he has forced on landscapes. He received the Aperture Portfolio Prize (2009), Foam Paul Huf Award (2010). His works were shown, including The Edge (Aperture Foundation, NY, 2010), Alexander Gronsky (FOAM Museum, Amsterdam,2010), Pastoral (Photographer.ru Gallery, Moscow, 2011), Mountains & Waters (Polka Gallery, Paris, 2012).

Reception for the Artist: October 3 (Fri) 18:00-20:00