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| First Name | Bogdan |
| Last Name | Zwir |
| Born | 1975-01-02 |
| Country | Russia |
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Expositions Bogdan Zwir
April 2007 - "FUKUOKA IMMAGINA", Japan
March 2007 г. - " The mechanics of dreams: visualization of implicit ". State museum of a history, St.-Petersburg, Russia
February 2006 - FOTOFUSION, Moscow, Russia
October 2006 - FOTOFUSION, St.-Petersburg, Russia
October 2006 - personal, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
September 2006 - FOTOFUSION, Moscow, Russia
July 2005 - personal , Kiev, Ukraine
July 2005 - "Bobbio IMMAGINA", Italy
February 2006 - personal, Kazan, Russia
June, 2005 - ART-project "I-lluzion", Irkutsk, Russia
December 2004 - STUDIUM: Image II, Russia, Moscow
September 2003 - "Photography beyond the photography", Latvia, Vilnius
The publication, portfolio
October 2006 - "Digital Photographer" magazine, Ukraine
February 2006 - DPWORLD, China
January 2006 - "Foto&Video" № 2 magazine, Russia
November 2005 - "PhotoMagazine" magazine, Romania
November 2005 - "PROFOTO" magazine, Russia
September 2005 - "Digital Photo - Masterskaya" magazine, Russia
June 2005 - "Cifrovoe foto" magazine, Russia
June 2005 - "Digital Camera" magazine, Russia
The awards
May 2006 - The international photo competition "The TRIERENBERG SUPER CIRCUIT",
Main Award Winners
VOAV MEDALS BRONZE,
Award Winners SPECIAL THEMES - "NUDE"
GOLDMEDAL
July 2005 – Prize(from NIKON) of Year 2005 Nonstop Photos, Russia
About Bogdan Zwir
(Magazine FOTO&VIDEO, feb 2006)
What emotions does the word “absurd” evoke? A pragmatic will get confused. An analyst – annoyed. A snob will feel contempt. An optimist will burst into laughter.
Perhaps only one category of people will admire the absurd.
First of all these are children who can turn the absurd into a fairy tale and break the rules of logic. Then there are writers who materialize absurd to collections of fairy tales for children or to complicated plots of sci-fi thrillers that would be equally appealing also to pragmatics, analysts and snobs. There are also artists and photographers. But their special type makes spectators linger at their “absurd” pictures. That makes critics feel awkward questioning themselves with the eternal issue “What should be done?”. Should the creation be called a philosophic masterpiece bringing its author to Olympus downhill and should they enjoy their sagacity? Or should this “nonsense” be laughed at, unfortunate artist scathed, and they would leave their trace in history as the most objective and just? But what if it’s talent after all? What then? Fame of a boring conservative, numb conceptualist, geniuses persecutor and butcher?..
No matter what the experts, critics, connoisseurs might think and say, there is a person in St. Petersburg who admires the absurd even though he is not a child anymore. His name is not familiar even to the most obsessed bibliophile because there are simply no books written by him. He can not be called a painter because he has an idea about paintings only based on the collection of the Hermitage and the Russian Museum. And talking about photographers, they can praise or blame his works looking at them but they unanimously claim that it is no photography. And this statement is difficult to argue with because even an amateur photographer knows the meaning of the word “photography” by heart.
What is it then? The absurd? What category can you relate Bogdan Zwir to if the absurd does not only admire but also inspire him, has inner depth meaning of what is hidden in the sub-consciousness of everyone and what people who consider themselves normal and sane try to stay away from. No wonder that for hours people look at “ Pleasures garden” by Bosch and read “Dark Tower” by King and listen hundred times to the Moonlight Sonata by deaf (absurd!) Beethoven..
Contrasts and paradoxes were surrounding Bogdan since childhood: a wooden village house without any conveniences that drowned in snow till roof, it was situated next to a modern building of a famous bank and an awl-like TV tower. Winter frosts till -60 C and dry summer heat of +40 C with sandy air from Lena. House foundations on piles growing from permafrost, and ugly heat pipelines spoiling cold sky. Then St. Petersburg. Mystic inconceivable city built on an absurd spot by a controversial person with the cost of a paradox number of lives and expenses. The city that in absurd time became symbolic, isn’t it a perfect refuge for Bogdan Zwir? Weird author. Who is capable of distracting anybody from idle thoughtlessness, tearing away from a swamp of indifference, evoking craving for self-study and bringing fruitless ideas to life. Showing in the absurd the creative dynamics of magic images, his real fantasy is full of them. |
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| Style Surrealism |
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| An art style developed in Europe in the 1920's, characterized by using the subconscious as a source of creativity to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas. Surrealist paintings often depict unexpected or irrational objects in an atmosphere of fantasy, creating a dreamlike scenario. |
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Three red spheres
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Girl shown interest to macro
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