Gallery "the Ark",
21 August — 28 September 2014
Moscow, Nemchinov str., 12

In the Moscow gallery "the Ark" an exhibition of paintings and graphic works of Olga ages (1910-1996). Olga ages — the artist from the pre-war graduates of the Moscow Institute of fine arts. She studied at the Department of poster at Alexander Deineka. But a far greater impact it has had other mentors — Tabor, Bruni, Istomin. Ages engaged in monumental art, worked as a stage designer. Her paintings and graphics exhibition in gallery "the Ark".

Work Olga ages familiar to many. Board games, packs of biscuits, matches, advertising Soviet years, posters for the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. But the author name remember namnoga@

"unfortunately, the work of Olga ages in monumental art has not survived, says exhibition curator Sergey Safonov. — And just a year ago in a fire last of its monumental thing died, and ceilings of the station "Izmailovsky Park" whitewashed where were the shades of her paintings, so this exhibition informs us that, contrary to the prevailing theory, the paper is often more reliable material than stone, fresco".

After the war, Olga eyges was engaged in design of public buildings, shops, residential houses, resorts. But to have survived mostly her watercolors. Paradoxically, these works — street monogenically, familiar scenes of urban life — and create mosaic picture epohi@

"Today, when we look at these things, we clearly immersed in the decade of the 60s, and not in any other, — says Sergey Safonov. And, I think, is the quality good artist — that works like a manifest image of time".

Olga ages attracted bright, unusual. So, in 1961, the year she watched the film "Scarlet sails" in Koktebel. While she was interested in and are quite ordinary events — bookmark metro Yugo-Zapadnaya in Moscow or landing of an aeroplane in the Crimea. During the normal course of her life she had seen and noticed something more. These sketches there is a mosaic in the departed vremeni@

Источник: kovcheg-art.ru