The retrospective brings together more than eighty works, created over the last twelve years

Center of photography behalf of the Lumiere brothers,
11-29 September 2013
Moscow, Bolotnaya embankment, 3, pp. 1,
the territory of the factory "Red October"

Tomorrow, September 11, in the Center of photography behalf of the Lumiere brothers opened a personal exhibition Vadim Guschin "Thing. Function. Appearance". A retrospective of the project will be presented in the main halls of the Center and will bring together more than eighty works, created over the last twelve let@

Invariably the center of attention Gushchina — a subject and its relationship with modernity, history and culture. Staying in the genre of still life, photographer developed his unique signature style — a clear, concise, and very expressive. Meticulously investigating the possibilities of visual, Gushchin created a real "Saga on the subject of" — philosophical registry of the surrounding material world, "a poetic catalog of" things, essentially as — thinking about time and cheloveke@

Exhibition "Thing. Function. Appearance" includes series, which began in early 2000-х. Each of them is dedicated to one of the objects of modern everyday life, simple in form and function. This can be a sheet of paper or a book, cardboard box or a sealed envelope, knife, plastic Cup, jacket or canning banka@

One of the main techniques of the artist — exclusion, the making of the subject beyond the domestic context. Thus, Gushchin turns the thing into a symbol. She is outgrowing its domestic function and acquires another, which inevitably delayed at its oblique@

the exhibition will be presented and black-белые work of the early period, and colour, was created recently. In black-белых photos extremely attention focuses on the form of the object. So, a shelf on which the item is located, plays the role of the pedestal and the thing itself becomes the monumentality and lapidary sculptures (series "Library" (2000); "Plastic ware" (2003); "Manuscripts" (2008), etc.). Color work done by-другому: in another and still lifes look like the subject landscapes. The color here is of particular importance when working at the level of psychology and cultural associations. For example, in the series "Colored envelopes" (2010) shown color envelopes — red, purple, brown — clearly appeal to different psychological States cheloveka@

Photographic language Vadim Guschin close to minimalism and traditions of Russian avant-garde, Suprematism. In its aesthetics, Gushchin "is on the way Kazimir Malevich. On path of pure forms" — writes in the Foreword to the recently released in Holland album Gushchina "Everyday Objects / Cultural Treasures" the art of M. Sidlin. However, unlike painting, photography deals with specific images. Just this fine line, a balance between the abstract, two-dimensional, symbolic, on the one hand, and specific, individual, aspiring to the ideal, but bearing the signs of time and human activity, — from the other, and is intriguing and special appeal of works by Vadim Gudina@

the exhibition will host a meeting with Vadim Gushchin and Michael Selinum "Dialogue critic and artist," and a lecture by Dutch publisher of Maarten Silta "Where to find a publisher? Maarten Schilt in Moscow", which will be presented the new book by Vadim Guschin, published this year in the publishing house "Schilt Publishing".

exhibition Curator: Katerina Zueva@

Vadim Gushchin was born in 1963 in the city of Novosibirsk. In 1986 graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute. From 1988 — freelance artist-фотограф. Lives and works in Moscow. Solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Denmark, Italy, France, Belgium, Rossie@

Источник: press-релиз center of photography behalf of the brothers of Lumia