The exhibition is devoted to the work of the famous Russian artist - Alena Kirtsova

Today, 28 September, begins its exhibition Alena Kirtsova «substance." Her biography and artistic achievement given the history of contemporary Russian art in the unique experience of rethinking and development of pictorial traditions of modernism, which seemed forever lost in the face of the totalitarian Soviet regime. Patriotic art critic dubbed Alena Kirtsova "Russian minimalism ', but over the depth of perspective, the breadth of formal search, the variety of genres (painting, drawing, installations, photography, installations, land art, and much more), it undoubtedly goes beyond the narrow confines of any stylistic definitions.

label minimalist Kirtsova deserved thanks to its geometric works of the early 1980's, became a turning point in her work. It was then that her intuitive plastic quest of the preceding period acquired the clarity and integrity, thanks to happily found the plot interior concrete buildings. Kirtsova set itself the goal to see a faceless "box" with slits of windows and doors of the heir to the modernist aesthetics, and it turned out she had a very impressive and convincing.

Born then the author has a new understanding of the plastic, neizobrazitelnoy nature of the language of painting led to a further expansion of the boundaries of the method. Whatever worked after that Kirtsova - whether to create a "memorial board, objects boxes or photo collages, painted a wall of the exhibition space or stained in a mass canvas - all this, of course, should be referred to experiments in the field of painting. The very painting of modernism, which thinks itself a matrix of space and practical guidance on the future of the fabric of life.

Art Kirtsova paradoxical fact that it connects two seemingly opposite: the speculative and prone to metaphysics, on the one hand, and the extraordinary sensuality, on the other. Therefore, purity, and a piercing clarity of formal discovery Kirtsova accompany an amazing warmth and softness of color solutions. In her geometric compositions, born from the observation of everyday life, never breaks the umbilical cord connection with life, they retain the "protein structure" of things. However, in each of the periods of the artist gives a new interpretation of this beautiful material.

In the early 1980's Kirtsova investigated the internal structure, the molecular structure of the object and scope, delimited it from outer space. A decade later, the artist's attention has shifted to the surface of the object, which Kirtsova tried to show his discretion, permeability, a layered structure. Work in recent years represent breaks in the traditional, stereotipicheskih objects.

About Creativity Alena Kirtsova impossible to speak in past tense: the project remains open, work continues. However, the amount already created can still make generalizations and conclusions, highlighting the art Kirtsova as one of the most innovative phenomena of contemporary Russian culture. Currently, the Project Office Legein prepares to leave the monograph for a complete listing of works Alena Kirtsova.

Alena Kirtsova exhibition will run until October 24, 2010.

Source: mmoma.ru