Solo exhibition of Timofey Parchikov. The curatorial selection of works is based on the artist's key series, 'Suspense.' It includes around fifty pieces from different periods, including the most recent ones.
December 17, 2021 - April 15, 2022

Tim Parchikov.
Just a shot away

On December 17th, Alina Pinsky Gallery opened the exhibition "Just a Shot Away" by Tim Parchikov. This curated selection of works is based on the artist's key series 'Suspense.' The exhibition includes around fifty works from different periods, including the most recent ones. Spontaneous shots, as if taken from a film, convey a sense of premonition, that very moment "a minute before the shot" from suspense films.
Tim Parchikov, a laureate of the Kandinsky Prize and the Moscow Art Prize, is one of the few Russian artists who have been working with European and Asian galleries for a long time. His works regularly participate in international exhibitions and are showcased at prestigious art fairs such as Art Basel, Frieze, ARCO, and others.
Since 2004, Tim Parchikov has been working on conceptual series, giving them "speaking" titles. The most famous ones include 'Burning News,' 'Dead Time,' and 'Magnitogorsk, from Stalin to Putin.' These titles, according to art critic Kira Dolinina, characterize them as a visual realization of a verbal metaphor that simultaneously conveys both a challenge and self-irony.
The exhibition 'Just a Shot Away' is based on one of the central series in Parchikov's oeuvre - 'Suspense.' These works are characterized by the frequent absence of people, the ambiguity of emptiness and silence, a certain airlessness of space, and intermediate states of nature. The title itself seems to transport us into the world of cinema. And this is not accidental, as Tim Parchikov graduated from the cinematography department of VGIK (the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) and the High Director's Courses. He began the Suspense series in 2006 and continues to add to it regularly.
The title 'Just a Shot Away' is again a play on words and meanings. "Within a shot's reach" refers to both cinema and the famous song 'Gimme Shelter' by the Rolling Stones. Moreover, the word 'shot' itself translates from English as "frame."
Whether it's the aggressive flashes from the 'Burning News' series with burning newspapers, the grim depictions of life in the monogorod of 'Magnitogorsk,' or the deceptively calm 'Dead Time' project about the situation of constant tension in Israel - all these images are united by a sense of an impending apocalypse. And the main theme of the exhibition - "Suspense" - is precisely about this feeling. Images from other series seem to be threaded onto the Suspense line, coming together to form a sort of film.

"This is not so much a cinephile stylization as an exploration of that anxious yet exhilarating state of mind that one can experience by gazing at everyday life. Shots taken in various locations – Turkey and Iceland, China and Israel, Venice and the Moscow region – present not so much self-contained 'views' in their pictorial essence as 'locations,' places of potential action, incidents, crimes, adventures."
Irina Kulik
Irina Kulik from the introductory article in the exhibition catalog
The catalogue with introductory articles by art critics Irina Kulik and Kira Dolinna has been published for the exhibition. It includes works from various series by Parchikov presented at the exhibition. The shots taken in different places – Turkey and Iceland, China and Israel, Venice and the Moscow region – represent not so much self-sufficient picturesque "views" but rather "locations," places of potential action, incidents, crimes, adventures.
The exposition
The selected works
White Mountain 2009 (Printed in 2021)
From the Bizzarro project

2 C-Prints mounted on plexiglass, black Safebox
Edition 3/5+ 1 A.P.
2 parts 240/160 cm each
Magnitka 2011 (Printed in 2021)
Inkjet print mounted to Dibond, black wooden frame.
Edition 1/5+ 1 A.P.

150/225 cm

Snowmen 2011(Printed in 2021)
From the Burning News project
3 Inkjet prints mounted on Dibond, white wooden frame.
Edition 3/5+ 1 A.P.
3 parts 148/250 cm each
Napoli 2005 (Printed in 2021)
From the Suspense project
C-Print mounted on plexiglass, black Safebox
Edition 1/5+ 1 A.P.
80/120 cm

Roublevka 2012 Pensionat Sosny (Printed in 2021)

From the Suspense project
C-Print mounted on plexiglass, black Safebox
Edition 2/5+ 1 A.P.
120/180 cm
Hainan 2014 Haikou (Printed in 2021)
From the Suspense project
C-Print mounted to plexiglass, black Safebox.
Edition 2/5+ 1 A.P.
120/180 cm
Israel Dead Sea 2012 (Printed in 2021)
From the Dead Time project
C-Print mounted to Dibond, white bright oak wooden frame
Edition1/5 + 1 A.P.
110/165 cm
Napoli. 50 Cent. 2007 (Printed in 2021)
From the Suspense project
C-Print mounted to plexiglass, black Safebox
Edition 7/7+ 1 A.P.
80/120 cm

Lanzarote 2017 Nazaret (Printed in 2021)
From the project Barriers of Vision
C-Print mounted to plexiglass, black Safebox
Edition 3/5 + A.P.
80/120 cm
Israel Dead Sea 2013 (Printed in 2021)
From the Dead Time project
C-Print mounted to plexiglass, black Safebox
Edition 2/5+ 1 A.P.
120/180 cm
Israel Dead Sea 2013 (Printed in 2021)
From the Dead Time project
C-Print mounted to plexiglass, black Safebox
Edition 3/5+ 1 A.P.
80/120 cm