Peter Belyi

beliy Peter Belyi was born in 1971 in Leningrad, USSR. He graduated in 1989 from the Secondary Art School of the Academy of Arts, and studied ceramics at the Mukhin Academy of Applied Art from 1990-1992. He lived in London from 1995-2001, graduating Camberwell College in 2000 with an MA in Printmaking. He now lives in St Petersburg, working mainly in objects and installations. He teaches at the city’s Smolny Institute.

Silence

A huge explosion frozen in rotten wooden boards with the epicenter in a room pierced by wooden shards can be interpreted as a revolt against a sterile gallery space.
The artist set himself the task of pinning down the fast-moving and irreversible nature of the world — the silent scream puncturing the walls, the brutal material and the cyclopean dimensions. The silent explosion creates a sense of chronicling events as they happen, in part referring to the tradition of war documentary. It is also as if the artist is demonstrating processes that take place in the mind of a person from a post-industrial society: the constant stress, aggression and pressure from outside is an endless explosion fixed in the time and space of consciousness.

Петр Белый. Тишина. 2009. Инсталляция. Дерево, сталь. 400х400х400. Courtesy автор / Peter Belyi. Silence. 2009. Installation. Wood, steel. 400x400x400 cm. Courtesy author