Vadim Gushchin

Vadim Gushchin
Born 1963
Novosibirsk, Russia
Occupation Photographer
Website http://vadimgushchin.ru/en/

Vadim Gushchin (Russian: Гущин, Вадим Витальевич) (Novosibirsk in 1963) is a Russian art-photographer.

Biography

Known primarily for his work, made in the genre of post-conceptual still life. In 1986, he graduated at the Moscow Energy Institute. he has been creating artistic photography since 1988. He lives and works in Moscow.

«Russian art photographer Vadim Gushchin, who combines minimalist, conceptualist, and abstract strategies, is also entwined with two crucial aspects of Russian art that are inseparable from the nation’s identity and history. He photographs the most mundane objects from his (and our) daily life, each in series: books, envelopes, pills, packages, bread. Photographers from Stephen Shore to Gabriel Orozco have also photographed the least imposing elements in our homes— a plate, a pail, a table mat— but Gushchin manages to transpose the globally recognizable, inconsequential, disposable fragments of life into pristine artifacts of art, more beautiful in their spare perfection than reproductions of his work suggest.» - Vicky Goldberg, writer, photography and art, Boston.[1]
«Vadim Gushchin 's elegant photographs pay homage to the dignity and richness everyday objects both in their very materials and in their roles as repositories of a collective culture. In the tradition of Russian supremacism his compositions are reduced to their most essential aspects of geometric form and color, however, his luxurious treatment of surface textures brings a warmth to the work that is completely his own». – Jennifer Norback, gallerist, Chicago.[2]
«When constructing a composition out of objects, Gushchin experiments with abstract colour relationships – in the gaping emptiness of the space of soaring, the heroes in his still-lifes are estranged from all earthly things, like the colour planes of Suprematist compositions. Gushchin’s photography reveals the fundamental duality of culture: the abstract nature of objects in it and the specificity of colour». – Konstantin Bokhorov, PhD, Moscow.[3]
«Vadim Gushchin balances on the thin edge of the object-objectless. The world of ideas – is the world of Malevich. The space of objects – is the space of consumerism. By putting objects from the supermarket into Malevich’s cosmos, Gushchin returns them to that place from whence they once came. To the primordial void. To the space of pure ideas».

«This is an image that does not constrain us in any particular way, it does not overwhelm us with many details, but you see some very small thing and this little thing is capable of triggering in you large volumes of memory. That is, they are photographs that work with that cultural memory and that time which we envelop». – Mikhail Sidlin, Art-critic, Moscow.[4][5][6]

Colored envelops 3 2010
Gypsum 1 2001

He has participated in art in exhibitions since 1991 and his first solo exhibition was held in 1995. He has more than 30 solo exhibitions including:

He has also participated in more than 50 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Russia and abroad. His works have been presented in the international and Russian сonceptual group projects, such as:

2007 - «The Silver Camera»- Award, received 1st place for best report on Moscow in the category of Architecture Moscow[36] [37]

Public Collections

Private collections in Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, USA, South Korea, Belgium.

Book and Catalogues (selected)

Video about artist and artist's interview

References

  1. Vicky Goldberg «More History in Russian Photographs»
  2. «Cultural Treasures»
  3. Vadim Gushchin «Cultural Treasures»
  4. «THE OBJECT AS A SCULPTURE. Vadim Gushchin: between the supermarket and the void»
  5. Video «Vadim Gushchin: «Still-life»
  6. «Vadim Gushchin: Still-life
  7. «Personalismus des Dinges»
  8. «Bread and Wood»
  9. Exhibition in Museum of the History of Photography
  10. «Aestetik der Statik»
  11. «Inventory of a Private Library»
  12. «Object. Function. Image.»
  13. Vadim Gushchin Turns Household Items Into Art
  14. Vadim Gushchin «Object. Function. Image»
  15. «Vadim Gushchin. Passed» Bratislava, Slovakia
  16. «Lianzhou Foto 2014»
  17. Liandzhou Foto, China
  18. «Cultural Treasures»
  19. "PhotoVisa / Открытие выставки "Интерпретация предмета", Вадим Гущин, Россия". www.photovisa.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  20. «Idea Photographic after Modernism»
  21. «Doors open day»
  22. «Leben elementar»
  23. Contemporary Russian Photography
  24. «Museum, look of Photographer»
  25. Guest Country : Russia.
  26. Contemporary Russian Photography in Seoul
  27. «Tarantel 2»
  28. «Der Biss Der Spinne»
  29. «Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion.»
  30. «Dinner is Served»
  31. "Ausstellung "Neue Russische Avantgarde", 11.01.2015 – 21.02.2015". galerie-kellermann.de. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  32. "Советское фото". www.lumiere.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  33. Iskakova, Yana; Zueva, Ekaterina (2015-06-23). "Seven decades of Soviet photography – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  34. Publishing, Schilt. "Exhibitions & Spotlight: Schilt Publishing". www.schiltpublishing.com. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  35. "The Russian Museum". rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  36. «SPRING. outskirts LANDSCAPE»
  37. «Moscow» FACE
  38. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
  39. "The Russian Museum". www.rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  40. "Московский музей современного искусства". www.mmoma.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  41. Museum House of Photography
  42. National Centre of Contemporary Art
  43. "English / Музей Москвы". mosmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  44. Lumiere Brotherth Photography Center
  45. Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts,. "MFAH | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". collections.mfah.org. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  46. Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts,. "MFAH | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". collections.mfah.org. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  47. Albertina kauft zum Auftakt der VIENNAFAIR mehrere Kunstwerke von Sevda Chkoutova und Wadim Guschtschin
  48. Albertina
  49. «Boghossian Foundation»
  50. "PhotoVisa / PhotoVisa 2015". www.photovisa.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  51. «Staging Encounters» Lianzhou Fotofestival
  52. «Everyday Objects/Cultural Treasures»
  53. «Contemporary Russian Photography»
  54. «Doors open day»
  55. Monography «Photographs. Vadim Gushchin»
  56. FOTOFEST 2006
  57. «Photoestafeta. From Rodchenko to our days»
  58. Valery Stigneev «Century of Photography»
  59. «Idea Photographic after Modernism»
  60. Wadim Gutschtschin «Meine Dinge»
  61. «A la recherche du pere»
  62. «Interview in the «Bleek-Magazine»
  63. «Vadim Gushchin: still-life»

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