Vadim Gushchin

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

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

Biography

Gushchin was born in Novosibirsk in 1963. He is 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

Books and catalogues (selected)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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:

Group exhibitions

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:

Award

Collections

Gushchin's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

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

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