
“Light dessert”, 2018
oil on canvas
“In my works I explore the nature of good and evil in man, an attempt to trace and fix this line between the sign “+” and the sign “-” is one of the main tasks. In my work, I often refer to the period of childhood as a special state of human life, and children as people who have the flexibility of consciousness and thinking, do not yet have a clear position in relation to the world around them, easily accepting what comes to them from the outside. In this connection, there is a collective image of a human escapist (even a child) who plays games, intentionally carrying out an escape from reality, as if juggling meanings, roles and statuses that arise around such binary pairs: good – evil, innocence – passion, quiet – loud, spirit – flesh, prey – predator, desired – real. The appeal to contrasting colors in painting is also not accidental: if the white, untouched by paint canvas is a symbol of innocence and spirituality, then red is a symbol of sacrificial blood, the greatness of hell in Christianity.”
Irina Drozd
Edication:
- 1997-2002 the Tver Artistic school.
- 2003-2009 SPBGHPA
Main works:
- Negrodamus the Stieglitz St. Petersburg (Department of the city of plastics)
- Award “Top 50”, famous people of Saint-Peterburgian award Kerehikapa, international artist-in-residence
- 2006-2007: Berlin, schoenemann top art prize “Innovation” Residence
- 2014: Paris, private residence, Gallery RX, Paris 2013: “Cite internationale des Arts”Paris, international artist-in-residence
- 2010: “Cite internationale des Arts” Personal projects:2018 -“Love me like I love you”, Museum of dreams of Freud 2017 -“When God was young”, UVG Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
- 2016 – “I don’t want to grow old”, Art Center gridchinhall, Moscow
- 2015 – “I know what you did in 13 years”, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg
- 2014 – “the terrible Illusion of reality”, Art-Center gridchinhall, Moscow ( in the framework of the youth Biennale of contemporary art)
- 2013 – “Another dimension”, Erarta gallery, Zurich
- 2012 – “Sterile”, Faynart gallery, Moscow
- 2011 – “Another dimension” , Anna Nova gallery, St. Petersburg “beauty Contest”, fine Art gallery, Moscow
- 2009 – ” Tile”, “Guelman gallery”, Moscow – “Beef”, gallery “Navicula Artis”, St. Petersburg. -“Forward to the past”, Luda gallery, Sbravati in the collections of Museum of contemporary art (Moscow), NCCA(Moscow), NCCA(Krasnoyarsk) and in private collections in Germany, Italy, Russia, USA