Media artist, composer, and sound designer Ricardo Nicolayevsky (lives in Mexico) has been making poetically inspired film and video portraits for more than twenty years. Spontaneously captured documentary elements are combined with experimental camerawork and editing to magically conjure the essence of his subjects. Nicolayevsky presents Retratos Perdidos, 1982–1985 (Lost Portraits, 1982–1985), a series of unconventional sketches that reflect a generation of artists. Also presented is the New York premiere of Retratos para un Nuevo Milenio (Portraits for a New Millennium) (2005), a series of contemporary portraits of artists and friends in Mexico City, New York, and Paris, and self-portraits.

In the Film exhibition MediaScope 2006

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