Today in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art exhibition opens Vlad Loktev "Without Makeup". The exhibition presents portraits of 40 women

Today, June 4, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka, 25) opened the exhibition Vlad Loktev "No make-up».

40 women's portraits. 40 thoughtful and humorous, stern and flirtatious, sober and frivolous images. 40 natural and neretushirovannyh persons. Sati Spivakov, Olga Slutsker, Julia Vysotskaya, Natalia Sindeeva, Aidan Salakhova , Christina Orbakaite, Svetlana Bondarchuk, Lisa Mikhalkov, Julia Bordovskikh, Ekaterina Andreeva, Lisa Boyars and many others in the new project wizard, fashion photography Vlad Loktev "Without Makeup».

Veteran Russian fashion photography, has released a few years ago a legendary album "Gloss", this time decided to depart from the traditional glossy standards. In his project - an actress, galeristki, business-woman, close friends of Vlad and simply beautiful women - appear already to be a constant component of the canonical image of celebrity - without makeup. The idea Loktev conceptually overlaps with the project of British artist Sam Taylor-Wood "Crying Men", where the famous Hollywood actors depicted in tears.

for famous women lack the protective layer of cosmetics - the definition of courage . Rejected the makeup, the heroine of magazine covers and bands gossip allowed themselves emotionally relax and reveal the nature of its beauty.

The faces of "no makeup" look is not a documentary authenticity. Exhibition Loktev not scandalous the way the paparazzi, when the blazing image "stars" exposing all the "too human". In each of his portrait of all professional and artistic verified. Lights, camera angle, background, even the choice of colors - black and white or color photo. His camera is not just terrifies people, and brings them, creating the effect of presence close to the heroines. Makes it so that the viewer could not help a feeling of emotional engagement and involvement in what happens in the frame. Through the pristine beauty of its women Vlad Loktev sends them spiritual beauty.

The exhibition is open until June 23, 2010.

Source: mmoma.ru