HIERONYMUS GRABSTEIN | MONUMENTUM

Our brain is organized in such a way that it analyses and memorizes visual information faster than any text.
A spectator is always curious to see what is left outside the camera’s view.
There is hardly a better way to tell stories of people’s lives other than via visual imagery. Handicraft – from the beginning and up to the end of each operation. It is not an automated process, but significant experience, expertise, and a bit of spontaneity and freedom of artistic creativity.

My ongoing series of pieces first started in 2017 depicts contemporary Russian monumental artists in their workspaces.

MONUMENTUM presents an inextricable connection between the artists and the space that surrounds them. With no claim to sophistication, the interiors of the studios contain a lot of details that might seem rather ordinary, at first sight. But this is only at first sight. The photographs turned out to be full of life and filled with the magic of the creative process.

HIERONYMUS GRABSTEIN

Photographer and filmmaker was born in 1987 in Novosibirsk, currently lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

Once discovered his passion for photography in 2009, soon it became clear he was eager to turn it into a real profession. Years of working in production design pushed further and shaped his language of visual storytelling.
Working on various projects ranging from fine art to portrait photography.
As a visionary, guided by his bright mind and intuition, Hieronymus sees his own art as a reality broadcast of sorts. He prefers not to direct viewers into any specific feeling with his work, letting the dreamy and surreal images speak for themselves.

MONUMENTUM

“My ongoing series of pieces first started in 2017 depicts contemporary Russian monumental artists in their workspaces.
MONUMENTUM presents an inextricable connection between the artists and the space that surrounds them.
With no claim to sophistication, the interiors of the studios contain a lot of details that might seem rather common, at first sight. But this is only at first sight. The photographs turned out to be full of life and filled with the magic of the creative process.

With an incredible opportunity to visit those diverse places and to be surrounded by the energy artists fill them with, I intuitively felt how the textures, materials, and objects around me became the continuation of artists’ ideas and subtle spiritual matters. While documenting the physical and metaphysical places, I felt there was no bounding line left between them. The workspaces became a powerful source of information on a par with the artists.
My works invite to experience how the living and the nonliving merges; creating a unique and multifaceted world of art.”

HIERONYMUS GRABSTEIN

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Read the full article on Lens Magazine Issue #63