Alyona Kirtsova. North
Stella Art Foundation in Skaryatinsky Pereulok
May 21 – June 20, 2010
Stella Art
Foundation keeps on introducing the art works of Alyona Kirtsova to the public.
Her last exhibition was held in 2006 under the title Colour Guide. Stella Kesaeva, President of the Foundation,
comments: "Several years ago we agreed with Alyona Kirtsova that we’d
hold a series of three exhibitions of her artwork on the premises of our
Foundation. These days, it was time for the second one. Her new series of
artwork – Sever (North) – expands, in a way, on the topic of her previous
exposition, though apparently adding new dimension in the course of her
exploration of the subject. Certainly, it provides an opportunity to look at a
new angle at the artwork of this remarkable artist. We are looking forward to
the 3rd installment to issue the catalogue.
Alyona
Kirtsova comments on her work:
For me, the
North, which I haven't seen too often in my life, but which is nevertheless
firmly entrenched in my memory and my imagination, is vast and sometimes
austere to miserliness in its form, its colors and its light. Rather than any
North of the woods, in this series I am dealing with the "North of
space": of the earth, sky and waters. It's a shame I haven't yet managed
to get to my native place on the island of Spitsbergen at a polar winter night,
a night like the one I was born into, so as to see for myself the black and
white of the earth, the sky and the sea. Will it be the way I imagine it?
That's why I hope the series is not yet complete.
Also, I've
been long thrilled by tracing how the corporal world transforms itself into an
apparently objectless one, exploring the life of "pointless" matter
and the opportunities of recreating form from debris.
Alyona Kirtsova's biography
Photo-report
Alyona Kirtsova. From the North series. 2010
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