LIFE AS A DREAM?
... " .. in this world everyone,
While living, he only sleeps and sees a dream. "
Calderon de la Barca "Life is a dream" (1635)
Can you find the border between illusion and reality? How to understand yourself? Exhibition The Dream of Reason by the young artist Svetlana Kalinkina tries to reveal our secret fears and experiences. The opening took place on August 6 at 19:00 at the FABRIKA hostel & gallery.
In a cozy, intimate atmosphere among friends and acquaintances, the author personally presented a series of paintings depicting creative creatures from the world of our dreams. Although maybe it is fantasies while awake?
"The mind in sleep mode creates strange images that are prototypes of all living things. They are formed under the influence of a number of factors: these are real life events, and the emotions that we receive, and some scientific achievements."
Inspired by the surrounding reality, the artist at the same time leaves her in the imaginary world and tries to reveal from some new side.
To do this, she deliberately does not use brushes, but takes unusual objects. Fridge magnets, metro maps combined with bright colors - and we have before us interesting paintings that are not alike.
Bold strokes create expressive images that are full of dynamism. At first glance, they immediately feel the energy of life. On the one hand, it seems that this is the irrepressible energy that
there is paradise in every child. Then the feeling may arise that the creatures are something naive, maximalistic. "Rabbit Man", "First Grader ..", "Swamp Dweller" - it was as if the hand of a little man touched them.
On the other hand, the monsters are of an adult nature. Maybe these are symbols of unknown passions in every person?
As if light and dark beginnings are fighting in them. Who will win this battle remains a mystery.
We see how irony and light sarcasm are subtly intertwined in the works, which are expressed in a riot of colors, the behavior of the characters. They are about to step out of the picture and start dancing at a different pace. Listen. What if it starts now?
Text: Natalia Pushchinskaya
Photo: Natalia Pushchinskaya & Vasily Uvarov
HARMONY OF CHAOS
How to convey the state of modern life? Beautiful in her imperfection and harmonious in different emotions? Painting of a young Moscow artist Dima Rovel
will show you the fragile line between illusion and reality.
The author, drawing his inspiration from infinity, the Universe, uses different tools to express himself and his thoughts.
“Today it’s oil, canvas, tomorrow a sculpture, then a scene. I don’t care about the format of performance, I want to convey to the viewer a full range of emotions. The main format in which I work today is painting, with the help of it I can show color, plastic. me to the last drop, there is no understatement between me and the viewer, so I really appreciate this effect "- says the artist.
The painting "VIETNAM" fully reveals the main theme of Dima Rovel's work. As the author writes, this is an attack of human hysteria, imposed culture and ideology of behavior in foreign cultures. Wars based on the ideals and ideas of other states. The painting seems to depict Mickey Mouse of irregular shapes - this is not only a reflection of American hysteria, but also a symbol of childhood and goodness.
He shows the depth of nervousness from the understanding that war brings not only external, but also internal destruction. You need to live in peace. Paints and strokes are selected according to the mood of our society. They are sharp, blurry, immersive.
It seems that the work of Dima Rovel is a grotesque fantasy filled with the subtle feelings of the author. Weaving together, they create an unusual canvas called "modernity", on which traditional ideas about beauty and ugliness, good and evil are blurred.
Who knows, suddenly before us is a novice Lewis Carroll from painting, who embodies his phantasmagoric dreams?
Text: Natalia Pushchinskaya
Photos courtesy of Dima Rovel.
THE ART OF THE MOMENT
Everything is fleeting. Leaves through your fingers. But the soul remembers a lot.
And so art drawing on water (ebru - the oldest oriental art - author's note) and sand from the artist Yulia Shamrai looks like a moment that dissolves in time, but touches the heart. She will present her creative studio "Art-Shmart" on October 4 at 10:00 in Ryazan.
You will be able to learn how to create unusual paintings from professional teachers, take part in the drawing of a master class on ebru and, of course, feel the harmonious atmosphere.
Julia, who has been fond of drawing and modeling since childhood, unexpectedly discovered sand art for herself. She accidentally saw the sand painting studio franchise. And then it all started. Information searches, training, master classes, trips. “For the first time in a long time, I felt that I wanted to spend all my energy on this,” says a novice business woman now.
She creates small works of art in front of amazed viewers. He takes brushes, paints, awl - and mysterious patterns appear on the water surface in front of us. Colors play beautifully in them, as emotions play in each of us.
Takes sand, light, shadow and in one movement to the music creates airy pictures. After a few minutes, they are replaced by others. Like an instant, people are sweeping before us, events created from sand, but real.
According to Yulia, the sand is very addictive: you either do not accept it, or you lose your head from it. Working with him is aimed at the process itself, at a magical action, when the feeling of "here and now" is important.
Playing with sand and water is a meditative process: people gradually move away from the noisy reality into their inner world, calm down alone with themselves. Quiet but energetic creation passes through their whole soul and they are already a little different. They look at the world with new eyes. Ebru and sand therapy can be called the art of the moment, but bright and strong. And what if not a moment is capable of shaking us so?
Text: Natalia Pushchinskaya
Materials provided by Yulia Barbarisova.
COLORS OF LIFE
The reality is multifaceted. Probably, you can think about it, looking at the works of the young artist Natalia Sokolova. She paints life, people in different states, sometimes looking beyond reality, into the world of surreal dreams.
When the author paints in oil, we see living self-portraits that seem to be looking at us. When he picks up gel pens, felt-tip pens and other materials, interesting experiments are obtained. As if in the works there is a place for both seriousness and light playfulness.
It manifests itself most of all in watercolors. Before us float women, gentle and fatal, with their own characters. I want to follow them. But where will they lead?
The images are dynamic, like Natalia's young spirit. They don't just exist on the canvas, they live outside of it. They are happy and sad, experiencing different moments, like all of us.
"I like to reveal the inner world of people through my work. I am inspired by my little son, the many-sided, interesting life around."
Indeed, I want to look at Natalia's paintings for a long time, study, because they are diverse. And how can our world be boring?
Text: Natalia Pushchinskaya
Photo: Natalia Sokolova.
GROTESE BEAUTY
"Art can be beautiful, while remaining scary, grotesque or intimidating. That doesn't make it any less significant. If people are afraid or shocked, they should first ask themselves why, not criticize ..." says musician Marilyn Manson.
His surreal paintings are like a mirror of our fears, experiences that we are afraid to admit to ourselves. We seem to suddenly find ourselves in the world of "Alice in Wonderland", where everything is inexplicable. But we do not fall into it, like the heroine of the book, but quietly open the door and enter unreality, looking around.
We are surrounded by various grotesque images, whirling, forming a single mass of bright colors. And above them rises the image of Manson himself, who seems to feel himself in the role of a ruler of destinies, a rebel, or, perhaps, a new Messiah?
It seems that we are faced with evil in its strongest manifestation, but what if this is a different understanding of goodness and beauty? It is refracted through the prism of the author's vision, which was formed from his own memories, experiences, etc. From this, the paintings are filled with life, although they breathe death from them.
Like a phoenix from the ashes, the artist dies and is reborn, so his stay on earth seems to last forever. Probably, art is also eternal, in whatever forms it manifests itself.
Text: Natalia Pushchinskaya
In the photo: the work of Marilyn Manson.
