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FotoLoft Gallery presents Oleg Videnin’s project – The Personal Paris, a series of black and white photos.
A Movable Feast – Paris for Ernest Hemingway, a camera – for Oleg Videnin. However, when they overlap they produce the Personal Paris of Oleg Videnin. This is the name of the exhibition presented by FotoLoft Gallery for the Photobiennial 2010 and devoted to France, since 2010 is the year of cultural exchange between France and Russia.
It is senseless to talk about cities like Paris without fear of favor; every one has its own set of very personal associations. So, interpretation of personal perception of Paris by words is impossible. “A thought once uttered is untrue”, but the photo of this perception made by the hand of a master is true, though also personal, but it cannot be different, perhaps.
Oleg Videnin presents his associative photographic history devoted to Paris. 29 black and white portraits and sketches taken in the late autumn in the most romantic city of the world are soaking with fog, hope and … loneliness. They do not have the usual touristy image of the French capital, so close to the Russian understanding. These photos rather remind of the uncompleted verse lines, where you may hear the heels on the sidewalk, the patter on umbrellas, the imperceptible music, the drizzle and the sense of love.
These photos have a kind of understatement, fortune; something is escaping permanently, and this is the surprising and unexpected feature of Vinenin's works, whose creativity is already accustomed with ideally matching portrait plots. Just one shot may turn into a real doc.
The exhibition will be held in a separate gallery space representing a miniature Paris - the personal Paris of Oleg Videnin.
The exhibition curator - Tatyana Kurtanova.
Official opening on March 19 at 8 p.m.
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