Oleg Dou has achieved global recognition before becoming famous in his homeland. Moscow is hosting the first solo Museum exhibition of the artist, whose works are well aware of the bidders and whose work adorns the cover of the new Adobe Photoshop

In the Multimedia Art Museum held a personal exhibition "Alien face" photographer Oleg Duryagin, known under the pseudonym of Oleg Dou . Surprisingly, his first museum exhibition in Russia, the master of digital photo-art is only now wait while abroad (in Europe, America and Asia), he actively exposed for more than five years. We can say that the international recognition of Oleg Dou reached before the Russians began to talk about it. In 2007-2008, he won international awards and the International Photography Awards International Color Awards, and in 2009 won the Arte Laguna Art Prize as "Best Young Photographer." As if to confirm this high evaluation abroad Oleg Dou once nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in the category "Young Artist" and "Project of the Year." And in April of 2012 the work of Oleg Dou graced the cover version of Photoshop CS6.

Biographical information about Oleg Duryagin available on the vast World Wide Web, it is extremely scarce. Born in 1983 in Moscow. Oleg's mother was an artist, often in childhood, the boy watched as she worked in the studio with his colleagues, went with her on the show. Craving for creativity awakened in him early, which was stimulated by the rivalry with his younger brother, according to Oleg, drew better than him. With 13 years of the future artist became interested in computer image processing. He liked the effect of clean, smooth surfaces, which can be obtained by such treatment, he always wanted to deal with imperfections. According to legend, one day when he began to retouch a photo of one of his girlfriend, the much overdone. However, this whitewashed, and Peeled portrait as a result of Oleg so impressed that he decided to continue to create something similar. The artist once said in an interview that he was partly inspired by medieval portraits of ladies with pale skin and without a hint of emotion on their faces. His favorite author is Dow said Francis Bacon.

After graduating in 2006, Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, "Programming in Economics" Oleg come to grips with the art. One after another began to appear a series of «Naked faces» («Naked people»), «Cubs» («Cubs»), «Toy story» («Toy Story»), «Nuns» («Nuns»), «Tears» ( "Tears") and others. One after another, opened the exhibition - personal and group - in Paris, Los Angeles, Barcelona, ​​Seoul, Brussels, Aidan Gallery, Moscow, etc.

Oleg Dou has positioned himself as an artist in the technique of photography, because photographs for him only a basis for further laborious and time-consuming process. Sometimes it is even slightly envious of those photographers who go to print the image within hours. For him, the creation of each portrait - is a big job. In a small movie that made Adobe, the artist raises the curtain on the production process. Over those models, it works almost like a sculptor: physically imposes on the face textures, creates a physical image of the scenery. The main work is done manually with the real stuff, but Photoshop is mostly used for fine-tuning the image to perfection. The result is worth it. Semi-fantastic and a bit eerie images of the Dow fascinating. There is something alluring and repellent at the same time. Whether it's children with bloodshot eyes from tears, ascetic monks, cubs beasts with human faces and characters, as if sculpted from papier-mache - can not dodge their discriminating eye, like a piercing right through you. These seemingly lifeless, plastic face is actually fraught with deep emotions and experiences, many of whom belong to the author. Thus, the project "Alien face" Oleg tried to overcome one of their fears - fear of staged photography. To do this, he combined in a single exposure, hiding behind paper masks inoplanetyanok with painted smiles and their children's photos, each of which pririsoval a clown nose and eternal evil grin as the hero of Victor Hugo. As a child, frightened by Oleg camera, before which it was necessary to pose and smile, and he hid from his fear of standing on the other side of the camera. The artist admits that sometimes it hurts their models as well as once tormented him. The model becomes a shell, a mirror of his own emotions, so to some extent the work of Oleg include self-portraits.

Huge fine photography by Oleg Dou several years selling well at auction. The artist uses the technique of the Swiss press Diasec: is when the picture is glued to the glass and acrylic base. As a result, pictures are more vivid (no more refractive air space) and protected from external influences. Manufactured in such a technique does not require the classical imagery frame, you can hang them anywhere: acrylic glass to protect the photo from sunlight and moisture.

OLEG DOU Nun. 2006 Plasticization. 100 x 100 Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest. 12/14/2012. Lot 229 Estimate: 350 000 HUF Result: 7.5 million Hungarian forints (43.65 thousands of dollars)

OLEG DOU Red. 2007 Plasticization. 100 x 100 Phillips De Pury. 08/03/2012. Lot 200 Estimate: 15-20 thousand dollars Result: 22 (27.5) thousand dollars

auction success Oleg Dou can be considered remarkable, given that the photographer was not yet 30. In a recent site Artprice ranking of the most successful photographers of up to 30 years in 2011 Oleg took third place. More than ten thousand dollars is customary price for the Dow works in international auctions. A current record - over 40 thousand dollars. In December 2007, Budapest auction Kieselbach Gallery Photo of the 2006 series "The Nuns" at 21 times higher than the estimate of HUF 350 000 and was sold for 7.5 million Hungarian forints (43.65 thousand dollars, excluding Buyers Premium). And in March this year, blood-red portrait of the «Red» in New York trading Phillips De Pury bought for 22,000 dollars (27.5 thousand dollars, taking into account the commission). In order to balance the story about the artist, it is worth noting that the work of the Dow have a strange property: among people versed in the art, there are those who delight in them, and there are those who have them can not stand. However, this is often the price paid for innovation. In general, the sum of the pragmatic factors of Oleg Dou today certainly deserve the attention of investors. Common risks specific to the beginning of his career, they have already leveled.

Onuchina Maria, AI

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