...akkor esetleg újabb két érdekesség:
1. egy londoni képzőművész, aki szintén betű fanatikus...:)
2. egy egészen elképesztő gyűjtés/archívum...3000 bűnözőkre tetovált rajzról, amit egy fogoly nevezetesen Danzig Baldaev tetovált a rabtársaira 1948- 2005 között. Sergei Vasiliev pedig végigfotózta a tetkókat, és az archivált anyagból a rendkívüli ikonográfiák rendszerezésével egy album is készült...
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| This unique archive documents Russian criminals' tattoos and their coded meanings. Included in the collection are more than three thousand tattoo drawings made by Danzig Baldaev during his time as a prison guard between 1948 and 1986. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and provocative, reflecting as they do the lives and traditions of convicts.
The accompanying photographs by Sergei Vasiliev act as an important counterpart to Baldaev's drawings, providing photographic evidence of their authenticity, and allowing us a glimpse into this compelling and extraordinary world. In these incredible images the nameless bodies of criminals act as both a text and mirror, reflecting and preserving the ever-changing folklore of the Russian criminal underworld. | |  | | View Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
16 photographs by Sergei Vasiliev (edition of 8 + 2 APs) are available to buy.
EXHIBITION
30 October to 28 November 2010
4 Wilkes Street, London E1 6QF
Thursday to Sunday, 11am-6pm |
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