Dates: April 12 – June 14, 2021
Vernissage: April 16, Friday, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Venue: art space of the Market on Leninsky, 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
“Space Art Station” is the title of the new exhibition at the Kvartira S Gallery, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space. The exhibition will open on April 12, 2021, in the art space of the gastromarket on Leninsky Prospekt.
People began depicting space long before Cosmonautics Day was established—artists and writers were undeterred by the fact that they had never seen what it truly looked like. Even before the launch of the first satellite, they contemplated, imagined, and portrayed outer space through their own ideas and conjectures, carried aloft by the flight of their imagination.
In the twentieth century, scientific progress took a great leap forward, and today, in the twenty-first, we know a great deal about the appearance of the universe and its planets; yet people have not ceased to explore, imagine, and reflect upon the subject. After all, space is still filled with secrets and mysteries that humanity has yet to fathom.
In contemporary art, an entire movement emerged in response to humanity’s exploration of space—space art, whose primary focus is the artists’ reflections on astronomy and spaceflight.
Two of the gallery’s artists— Gela Sol and Marina Tiik—present viewers with their visions of intergalactic questions, expressed on canvas.
Sasha Rishar, curator of the exhibition:
“The Kvartira S Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Gela Sol and Marina Tiik, two artists representing the realist and abstract directions of space art. Angelina’s works seek to encompass as much information about celestial objects as possible, while Marina does not strive to render them faithfully in her art; instead, the objects themselves serve as a source of pure inspiration.”
About the artists:
Marina Tiik
Marina Tiik was born and raised in Moscow. She received a professional education in decorative and applied arts and design. She began her creative path in textile design and later taught art disciplines. Through painting, Marina sought self-expression and never ceased her creative search. Over the years the artist found her own style and hand, in which the ability to work with a variety of materials and techniques is organically combined with a gift for thinking in generalized categories and symbols.
Gela Sol (Angelina Yemelyanenko)
Angelina graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry in monumental decorative and applied arts. For a long time she painted exclusively in a classical style. She now combines contemporary painting techniques with her own elaborations, compiling various genres and experimenting with materials.
