An exhibition “Magnezit in Detail”, which is represented in Proletarskaya street, is one more step in a series of street expositions “Satka: City Code”.

The photos in the exposition were made by Viktor Molodtsov, a young photographer from Moscow. He spent some days working at the Satka Production Site of Magnezit Group. As a result he made the project, which represents the city-forming company in a new way, which is made up of a number of details and presents Magnezit both for those, who have never been at the enterprise, and for its employees.

— The photographer managed to show Magnezit not only as an industrial facility, showing the complexity of labor and concentration of working people, but also as a facility for creative shooting, says the curator of the exhibition Diana Gurova. — He managed to show the beauty of industrial facilities, machines, and equipment. The lens of his camera turned robots into the aliens, which worked for the benefit of the human race. The artist found the original details in the most seemingly common objects and showed them from such angles that it becomes clear for spectators: a piece of art can be made out of each and every object.

The photos show Impulse Furnace Products Complex, Progress Unburned Products Complex, Record Solid Sintered Powder Complex, stowage facilities of Magnezitovaya mine, Karagaiskiy and Beryozovskiy open pits, Russian Magnezit viewing platform.

We remind that “Satka: City Code” Street Photo Exhibition Cycle has been held in Satka with the support from Magnezit Group, Sobranie Fund, the Satkinskiy District Development Support Fund, and the Municipal Administration since 2021. The operating project exhibition spaces were in Proletarskaya street, near the Magnezit and Stroitel Cultural Centers.

The project was launched with an exhibition made by Ivan Kurinniy, the Moscow photo artist, who represented the Satka code through the portraits of its residents. Later the cycle included the photo project “Water and Metals” made by Fyodor Telkov; an exhibition devoted to the history of education in the Satkinskiy district arranged together with the Satka Museum of Local Lore; a project devoted to miners and Magnezitovaya mine made by the photographers from Satka and Yekaterinburg — Denis Shakirov, Maria Kochergova, Sergey Poteryaev, and Roman Dusov.

OUR INFO:

Viktor Molodtsov (born in 1984 in Glazov, the Udmurt Republic) is a reporting photographer, he has been engaged in professional shooting since 2009. That year he graduated from the Russian New University, in 2014 — the Documentary Photo School DocDocDoc in St. Petersburg. A finalist of competition “A Point on the Map” (2016). Well experienced in shooting of large industrial facilities.

Source: Magnezitovets. Photo by: Vasily Maksimov