The project has been shot in 2007–2014, it is a series of photographed reflections of Greek and Roman sculptures in the marble walls of antique halls in the New Hermitage.
"Since my childhood, and after, as an art student, and then as an art history teacher myself, I spent many hours in these fabulous halls on the first floor of the New Hermitage, designed by the German architect Leo Klenze in 1839, and admired the beauty of the multicolored walls of artificial marble, spectacularly emphasizing the silhouettes of antique statues. But, neither I nor anyone of the hundreds of thousands of people who passed through the classical exhibits in the halls named Dionysus, Jupiter, the Roman Courtyard, etc., got enough attention to see that the statues are perfectly reflected in the shiny surface of the walls (and did the German architect himself mean it?). Yuri Molodkovets, the photographer of the State Hermitage Museum, confirmed his status once again — through him the ubiquitous truth still triumphs: there is a serious difference between “to look” and “to see”.
Andrey Khlobystin