OLEG DOU
" Born in 1983 in Moscow.
As his mother was a painter and his father was a dress designer, in his childhood Oleg Dou used to gather with the artists and to spend a lot of time reading is father’s fashion magazines. At the age of 13, his parents offered him his first computer set up with an old version of Photoshop with which he already began to transform his school friends or teachers faces. After studying design, he worked as a web designer. In 2005, he buys his first professional camera.
He is one of the most promising artist of his generation. In 2011, the Artprice company, leader of the information on art value, has graded Oleg Dou in the top 3 of the under 30 years old photographers the best saled in public auctions. One of his images will make the cover of an extensive " Frozen Dream, contemporary art from Russia" book, from Trans Globe Publishing and Thames & Hudson.
Oleg Dou lives and works in Moscow". Gallery notes
As his mother was a painter and his father was a dress designer, in his childhood Oleg Dou used to gather with the artists and to spend a lot of time reading is father’s fashion magazines. At the age of 13, his parents offered him his first computer set up with an old version of Photoshop with which he already began to transform his school friends or teachers faces. After studying design, he worked as a web designer. In 2005, he buys his first professional camera.
He is one of the most promising artist of his generation. In 2011, the Artprice company, leader of the information on art value, has graded Oleg Dou in the top 3 of the under 30 years old photographers the best saled in public auctions. One of his images will make the cover of an extensive " Frozen Dream, contemporary art from Russia" book, from Trans Globe Publishing and Thames & Hudson.
Oleg Dou lives and works in Moscow". Gallery notes
Very surreal, outsider art, extremely brilliant use of digital manipulation. It's not fashion, portrait or graphics but a strange combination of all three. I saw his work four years ago when we did an exam question " Identity". It made a great discussion topic. I have posted it because after the tutorial my head is full of conflicting ideas and ways forward, this work is as different to my own as it is possible to be. Mental vacation!
Beautiful if a bit haunting photography, I'm wondering if he got the models to shave their eyebrows or he Photoshoped them out, he doesn't take many images of their hair almost going for a very clean almost plastic look.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he is each picture illustrates the way the model is feeling, or if he has created these illusions himself. Does he feel no one listens, or is he seen only as a disease? Interesting Louise.
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