we Continue to acquaint with the artists — participants of the exhibition "Born in the USSR — made in France", which opens April 22 in Paris. We started the story with a brief acquaintance with the main idea of the exhibition and presented Oleg Yakovlev and Katerina Zubchenko.

All the exposition that opens April 22 in Paris, presents three historical layers. The first generation — is the artists born in 1920-40-х and came to France in 1970-1980, — nonconformists, forced to emigrate after the famous "bulldozer exhibition"; the second generation — those born in 1950-70-х and came to Paris after the Soviet collapse, and finally, "children of perestroika".

• MARY SCHMIDT Aphrodite 1. 2004
  gouache on Paper. 162 x 57. Source: archive of the artist
• MARY SCHMIDT Red Aphrodite. 2005
  gouache on Paper. 99 x 51. Source: archive of the artist

Masha Schmidt (Masha S. Schmidt) lives in Paris since 1990 and, thus, represents the work of the third generation of artists.

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"Masha Schmidt I'm a stranger — yet. I hope very soon this outrageous situation will change.

I love her work — or should I say “her work”? — when they are considered, there is confidence that all fragments of one large canvas, which shows all the plant life of the Earth.

Masha big “family”. We assume that Wrobel — her great-uncle: he could write as if set off in abstraction (but take a fragment of his “Lilacs” and increase it 100 times — here is the abstraction!), Nicolas de Stael with his technique of "big points", say, uncle, and Helena Vieira da Silva, but thawed, warmer, came down from his marble pedestal, — aunt. "Family" moved to different continents — cousins and second cousins and sisters and other water on the jelly is in America... But let's leave this listing of relatives — the work of Masha Schmidt deserve attention by themselves, it is a very good painting that has always been rare".

Liana Roginskaya, especially for AI

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"I got the classical art education that you could imagine: four years studied in a variety of school she graduated from the Stroganov art school, Paris Academy of Arts, faculty of plastic arts at the Sorbonne and the University of Saint-Дени.

• MARY SCHMIDT Horizontal paper 1. 2004
  gouache on Paper. 118 x 30. Source: archive of the artist

In Paris, my life is dedicated to painting, sets for theatre and cinema (artist-постановщик).

I'm incredibly lucky: the fate provided the opportunity to develop in different but interpenetrating cultures — Russian and French. This dual experience has definitely shaped my painting.

My last series of — a result of long work to "clean" perception, search the Acme plastics of the world surrounding me and its relationships to the inner world. Almost all recent work — landscapes, the impetus for the creation of their — invariably observed me micro@- (macro or@-) space.

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a Series of “Gardens” — sunstroke in the garden of Ravello (Naples coast). Result — begin work on “endless landscape”.

the Active color as a reaction to the light of the sun.

the Series “homage to Giotto” — “silhouette-пустота” Florentine frescoes of Giotto. The signification, the development of geometric dynamics.

a series of “Variations” — landscape in motion. This series most close to my vision of the "inner landscape"".

Masha Schmidt, especially for AI