Dates: March 1 – April 11, 2021
Vernissage: March 6, Saturday, 19:00–21:00
Venue: art space of the Leninsky Market, Leninsky Prospekt, 108, bldg. 1, 3rd floor, Moscow
Opening hours: Mon–Wed 10:00–23:00; Thu–Sun 10:00–00:00. Free admission.
Exhibition curator: art historian, art journalist Sasha Richard
The new exhibition “Around Color” brings together the work of three artists: Natalia Karpukhina, Elena Nechepurenko, and Yakov Khomich.
The artistic inquiry of the featured artists is devoted to the meaning of color and its role in constructing the pictorial image of a painting. In the artists’ works, color is experienced not only visually, but also psychologically and symbolically — echoes of Surrealism and Cubism can be traced. In the end we see vivid and lush, fantastical and immediate works.
What distinguishes the work of Natalia, Elena, and Yakov is intense color, firmly outlined forms, and meticulously executed detail. Thanks to this, the exhibition gives the viewer a positive charge of energy, one directly connected with the spring awakening of the world, new plans, bold ideas, and, of course, the surge of strength needed to bring everything conceived into being.
The artists have managed to keep within themselves the children-discoverers who sincerely marvel at everything they see around them, and this naïve wonder, passed through the prism of mastery, talent, and imagination, they have embodied in their works.
About the artists:
Artist, designer. She graduated from the Tula Art College and the Faculty of Design at Tula State University, and took part in intensives at the British Higher School of Art and Design. For more than ten years she has worked at one of the largest marketing companies in Russia, where she currently heads the design department.
In recent years she has pursued her practice in various fields of applied art, as well as web design and sculpture. Her works are held in private collections in Russia, England, the United States, Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands.
Yakov Khomich
Yakov is a professional artist and decorator. He graduated from the College of Musical and Theatrical Arts and the Gerasimov All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. A participant and prizewinner in numerous all-Russian and international projects and competitions, he is the author of set designs for productions at the Gogol Center and elsewhere. Winner of the all-Russian competition “Young Talents of Russia” in the Fine Arts category. In his works, Yakov depicts only what he has seen with his own eyes. His childhood travels through exotic countries left a strong impression on him, echoes of which can be traced in the color solutions on his canvases.
Natalia Karpukhina
Artist, designer. She studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design. Natalia is in constant creative search and is not afraid to experiment with color. Paintings executed in various techniques in a recognizable authorial manner are united by the theme of the influence of the inner and outer worlds on the female personality, while the works are filled with bright sunny colors and a playful mood.
