Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens a solo exhibition of Oksana Mas - Odessa artist, which a few years ago, opened a Moscow audience Aidan Gallery. Oksana Mas works were highly appreciated by the professional community and aroused interest from collectors. The artist explores the traditional art forms - painting and photography, amazingly accurate point shades vyhvachennogo life story.

Her style is always recognizable - laconic and often monochrome paintings, sketches of monumental size, to perform sophisticated and lyrical in mood. Oksana is constantly experimenting with materials and techniques, inventing their own techniques and combinations. In addition to the traditional two-dimensional works, the artist creates unique objects made of leather, plastic and outdated its automobile engines. All of this will be presented at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Oksana Mas - representative of a new generation of «Southern Waves», she was born and raised in Ukraine, lives and works in Odessa. However, in its art and there is no shadow of provincialism: the first exhibition of the artist in the Metropolitan Aidan Gallery in 2004, persuaded even the most skeptical critics that at the Moscow art scene appeared quite complex, vivid and an independent author.

Oksana Mas especially interesting is that as the representative of «rare» for artistic phenomenon southern wave sex gives us a softer, proportionate to the viewer the option of the art. However, the «soft» deceiving. All available in stock criticism synonyms artistic phenomenon southern waves - «hot post», «transavangardnoe neobarokko», «new tenderness» - perfectly describes the art of Mas. Moreover, Oksana Mas to all kind of negates pile of dubious stereotypes regarding the nature of art «Women's kind». It is a good, successful, and devoid of complex physical problems (and does not shy about this). Plus to everything, it ignores all the favorite themes of feminist discourse - repressiruyuschy opinion, social sex, and others. Art and how to overcome the problem of identity - is not its topic, but her art is not a product of leisure time in idleness, quite a woman and the world. Mas said that the art for it is equally an emotional necessity and a way of self-discipline. And the fact that it (a successful designer) was able to support herself, made her in the art of a free and indifferent to the art market pressures.

won in 2004, the capital of elegant black and white painting, after three years of Mas introduced unexpectedly colorful pictorial series «employed see dreams», later appeared in the southern temperamental project «Drive». However, Mas does not exhaust itself only traditional techniques «canvas, acryl». The exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art will be represented by two series of objects - in 2005 shocked the public project Kiev «Phenomenon epidermizma», brings to mind nightmares about surreal painter Salvador Dali and narcotic mirages cult novel by the author of «Naked Breakfast» William Berrouza, and charmed by the 2007 visitors Fair «Art Moscow» project «heart transplants» - cover dressing and fine leather inlaid with precious metals Motors luxury cars.

Biography. Oksana Mas was born in 1969 in the city of Odessa Ilyichevsk area. Ilychevsk Graduated School of the Arts (1986), Odessa State Academy of MB Grekova (1992) and the philosophical faculty of Odessa State University named after I. Mechnikov (2003). He is a painter, working in an individual author's technique, patented in the Ukraine. She participated in many group exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the United States. Since 2003, actively cooperates with the Aidan Gallery, Moscow. Personal exhibition of artist took place in Odessa (1995-1997), Kiev (2001-2005), Czech Republic (1997), the Netherlands (1997-1998), Spain (2004), France (2005). Works by Oksana Mas acquired the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine to the art museums of Lviv and Donetsk, the Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, the city of Valkenburg (Netherlands), Charitable Foundation of Disabled Persons (Venice), as well as numerous private collectors from different countries.

curator of the exhibition - Aidan Salakhova.

Exhibition «MAS» opened in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka, 25, 3rd floor) until December 14, 2008.

Source: a press release the Moscow Museum of Modern Art