SCHOOL HOLIDAYS IN RUSSIA

Today I learned that there are school holidays in Russia... and I was trying to guess why all good places for all children events are booked month ago... 

Too many people are in Moscow... 

FRIDAY!

Three days of holidays in Russia... 

OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY 2013 Moscow Kremlin (+small video)

Last week-end my daughter and I were in Kremlin Concert Hall on ballet. After show we eventually learned that will have place the the Olympic Torch relay. It was much nicer than I could expect. Few people, kind and inconspicuous security, perfect weather and a lot of fun for children ))

В прошлое воскресенье ходили с дочкой на балет в Кремлевский дворец. Попали на эстафету Олимпийского огня. Все было неожиданно очень мило - мало людей, очень ненавязчивая и незаметная охрана, прекрасная погода и много радости детям...

THE ANGST

There was such a place in Moscow where I was sure my angst was living... I have painted this place. Yesterday I walked close and realised that there is no such a building any more... But there is no reason for my angst to be scared - he have where to live now forever...

В Москве было такое место - ничего особенного, но когда я хожу мимо, я точно знаю, что из черной дыры в одном сарайчике на меня всегда смотрит мой страх...
Несколько дней назад я закончила рисовать свой Страх... Вчера я обнаружила, сарайчик снесли. Но Страху нечего бояться - ему теперь навсегда есть где жить...

IL GIARDINO

Did some work on pictures i made last year in the awesome botanic garden of the austrian artist André Heller in Gardone at Lake Garda, Italy - a really amazing place.

You can find more about it here: Giardino Botanico - André Heller

More Photo at my homepage

UPDATE OF MY HOMEPAGE...

I have updated my homepage - you can find there now some of my latest works...
Chris deMatté . Fine Art Photography

And meanwhile in Russia... ;-)

Vadim Gushchin Exhibition 
THE ART OF CREATING ART...

Being in Moscow I visited today (again) the "Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography" to have a look at an exhibition which description sounded quite promising...

Quite an interesting exhibition with about 80 photographs of trivial everyday objects. Technically well done, nice lighting...it reminded me on my first year at the photographic college when we had to do a lot of this things to learn about lighting technics...

But then I came across a quote of Vadim Gushchin...

"I am - an artist.  I mean, I consider myself as an artist more than a photographer, although, of course, and I am also a photographer, because what I do is photograph."

Here we are again... The big question "What is art?"...

And then I found this on the gallerie's website:

"Staying in the genre of still life, the photographer developed his unique architectural style - clear, concise and extremely expressive. Meticulously examine the possibility of visual, Guscin created a real "saga about the subject" - a philosophical register of the material world around us, "poetic catalog" of things, in fact the same - thinking about time and about the person.".

And this reminds of a story a colleague once told me: He was sending some of his pictures to a famous museum in Paris, but they where returned to him on the ground that they didn't fit into the museum's portfolio (another saying for "we don't like your work"...). After some times my colleague asked a friend who called himself "philosopher" to write some text fot the same pictures. He got this text (and admitted that he didn't understand half ot what his philosopher friend had written) and sent the pictures together with the text to the same museum - and this time they where exepted...

Maybe beeing sucessfull in art doesn't need some unique work but just good (self-)promotion?

Here are some more examples of Gushin's work:

Don't misinterpred me: I like his work. Technical clean. Nice done prints... But is it "art"?

I personally like Guy Boudin's sentence about photography and art much more:

"Whether or not I create art is not of importance. For me, photography is a mean of expressing my wonderment at objects or certain people, a way of celebrating the poetry of nature or the melancholy of passing time."