«People» Alena Dergileva House Graphs
ARTinvestment.RU   27 февраля 2009

Today in the House Graphs (DA Rovinsky Museum) opens exhibition «People. Portrait graphics Alena Dergileva »

Today in the House Graphs (Potapovsky trans., 10) exhibition in Moscow was called the master of psychological portraiture Alena Dergileva. The exhibition presents the best part of the portrait over three hundred works created by over thirty years of creative work.

Good portrait has always been enough. In our vain time they almost did not have. It is therefore with surprise and admiration perceived rare meeting with the art of psychological portrait - Art nerve, requiring the artist limit voltage and vymatyvayuschego all spiritual forces.

Dergileva - one of the most outstanding artists, felt «atmosphere» their models, their nervous energy. Portraits are very diverse in technique: etching - etched bar, aquatint, soft lacquer, lithograph, pencil drawing. But technology is not an end in itself but a powerful means of expressing content. In the «breathing» stroke, sending a psychological state of the model, there is character artist, in which sensitivity is connected with the sustained strength experience. Therefore, even the seemingly modest works sound solemn and alarming.

Her etchings show the alloy of Russian portrait art traditions and achievements of the XX century. All Works line pulsing caused by the confident hand.

«The size of my etchings entirely depend on if I can do at this scale, the line alive. If it is lost, it is necessary to reduce the size of », - noted artist. Interestingly, the portraits Dergileva in most cases executed from life just to etching the board.

The most famous series such as «Portrait of the Artist», «Our elderly», «Children», «Talking», «good mood».

Alain Dergileva 1 January, 1952 was born in Moscow in a family of artists. In 1975 graduated from the Faculty of Applied Art Moscow Textile Institute. C 1982 to 1983 - Fellow CX USSR. Since 1983 a member of the Moscow Union of Artists. In the period 1984-1987 in the creative workshop of the USSR Academy of Arts under the direction of OG Vereyskaya .

participated in many Russian and foreign exhibitions, is the winner and awarded several prestigious prizes. Her works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, State Historical Museum, Museum of the City of Moscow, in the department of rare books and prints of Russian State Library, in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Exhibition «People. Portrait graphics Alena Dergileva »House Graphs (DA Rovinsky Museum) is open from 27 February to 26 March.

Museum Address: Potapovsky trans., 10, m «Clean Ponds», «China city». Museum Schedule: Wednesday - Sunday from 12 to 19 hours; weekend - Monday, Tuesday.

Source: graphichouse.ru