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BREAD, nowadays, is a food product, which is gradually being forced out of the “civilised” man’s ration. It contains too many calories, in spite of the biblical “take and eat…” But anyway BREAD remains and forever will be the corner-stone of human existence, one of the few concepts, having a direct link...

By withdrawing an object from reality, Vadim Gushchin returns it to the viewer, and also a part of that reality, as a generalized formula or idea without creating a situational context or placing that object in the arbitrary field of “never and nowhere”. Committing an act of counterpoising (opposing)...

The still lifes by Vadim Gushchin impress as being somewhat old-fashioned. Compared with contemporary "still- or food-photography" - with modern still lifes, they are simple, naive, without craft. Through the intermediary of the contemporary medium Gushchin strives to take contact with the long-standing...