Anna Myagkikh. Mobiles Automatic translate

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art together with the Krokin Gallery presents Anna Myagkikh’s project “Mobiles”. The exhibition includes an installation of two dozen porcelain objects and a series of large-format paintings.

Anna Myagkikh’s Moscow debut was preceded by many years of study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, which determined the stylistic features and substantive priorities of the author’s creative search. This explains the presence in the artist’s art of accents that are unusual for the domestic viewer, forming a phenomenon that is complex in its interpretation. The artist does not puzzle herself with the final result; she is captivated by the creative process itself: the play of matter, its transformation and mobility.  

The dominant feature of Anna Myagkikh’s work is experiments with various materials and technologies. In her works, the artist reproduces dynamics, records the sculpting process, preserving in the ceramic mass the imprint of her hands, a trace of her presence and her emotions. In spontaneous action, she reveals something hidden even from herself, very personal, capturing in visual “mobiles”, in their color scheme, similar to Japanese anime, the process of endless generation of form in its manifestations.  

About the artist

Graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design (England). Creates abstract paintings, collages and objects. His work explores how the personal and familial relate to pop culture and contrasts kitsch aesthetics with academic approaches to art. Myagkikh’s works are in the collection of the European Art Museum (Frederikswerk, Denmark). Collaborates with Krokin gallery.

About Krokin gallery

The gallery was founded by Mikhail Krokin in August 1990 in Moscow. Krokin Gallery, being one of the leading galleries of contemporary art, has carried out over three hundred exhibition projects, including museum ones (projects with the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin, the Museum of Architecture and other institutions). The gallery collaborates with artists whose names have become a textbook of contemporary Russian art. However, a fundamental component of the gallery’s activities is the organization of exhibitions of young authors, the enormous potential of which imbues the gallery’s program with a special sound of youth research.