Andrej Tarkovskij – Polaroids
Exhibition at the Museum Wiesbaden from April 25th to May 30th

Opening at the Museum Wiesbaden: 24.04. / 5 p.m.

Polaroids have something magical – not unlike old, faded family photos or images which vaguely exist in our memories. Out of the blue, they manage to stop time for one short moment – racing life’s transience, even though it will catch up with them down the line. Andrej Tarkovskij (1932-1986) loved the Polaroid-camera, the magical toy he had acquired in the late seventies – and used it to preserve his own surroundings, moods and situation. After STALKER, the disturbing film he completed with enormous difficulties in 1979, he decided to leave the Soviet Union for Italy. With his Polaroid-camera, he seems to have said farewell to his Russian life – and, by taking personal, poetic pictures of houses and landscapes in Tuscany, to get acquainted with this new scenery in which he would complete NOSTALGHIA – his second-to-last film – in 1983. Looking at the pictures, one seems to recognize motives from movie-scenes; a world in Tarkovskij’s signature style. For the first time, sixty of these Polaroids can be seen in Germany. Giovanni Chiaramonte and Andrej A. Tarkovskij are the curators of this exhibition which has been featured in the book „Luce istantanea“, published by Ultreya, Milan in 2002. The German edition will be published by Schirmer/Mosel this spring. goEast thanks the Hessen State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, the Wiesbaden Museum, Multi Logistics and the Italian Cultural Institute Frankfurt.

Admission price: 2,50 /1,25 €
Opening hours: Wed-Sun and on public holidays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tue 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.