23 October – 19 November  2013
Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos
1, rue Jacques Coeur  75004 Paris
Metro Bastille
Tel: 0140 27 89 30 – 06 86 58 98 09
[email protected] www.galbob.fr

Vadim Gushchin is one of the best photographers currently working in Russia. He only photographs object his daily environment – books, cups, disks, tools – carefully arrenged and lit in his studio. All his ojects can be related to his own life or can be connected to the history of his country, Russia. Their arrangements and the juxtaposition of their colors and textures create compositions of a great elegance that often recall Russian Constructivist art of the 1920’s. But there is also in these banal objects a whiff of mystery, a symbolic emotional charge that moves them beyond ordinariness or merely elegant design.They become instead objects of contemplation with an almost philosophical dimension. As they arrest in their photographic space the passage of time, they underline the fleetingness and fragility of all things, feelings and thoughts.
Galerie B.O.B. is honored to present in Paris a retrospective of the work of Vadim Gushchin in the wake of three important exhibitions of his photography held this year in the USA - "Inventory of a Private Library"
at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland – in Germany – “Books” at the  “In focus Gallery”, Cologne – and in Moscow “Object. Function. Image.” In Lumiere Brothers Photography Center.