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An exhibition by Antonina Fatkhullina "Flight to Eternity" has opened in the space of Abramova Gallery.

Myth, legend, fairy tale, literature, music, art - a kaleidoscope of ways to resist reality and its inevitability. The viewer and the artist are looking for ways to expand the real world to an impossible fantasy and find this space in the vacuum of the past, where there is only what has already been lived, known, studied. Impenetrable in its beauty and stature, medieval and renaissance art thus becomes a safe space, distant and safe. Antonina Fatkhullina accurately exposes its rationality and measuredness, turning the symbolic depth of the iconography into an understandable metaphor and message: flight into eternity, almost from a running start, is a modern strategy for survival.

The exhibition presents not only sculptures in the characteristic author’s technique, but also painting - a new medium for Antonina Fatkhullina. On a monumental painting, the artist depicts himself clinging to an enlarged portrait of a stranger by the German artist Petrus Christus, a student of Jan van Eyck. Antonina paints with broad strokes, breaking up into stains, streaks, drops, snatching out the calm, timeless look of the “beautiful far away” of German art and the grace of the Flemish-English nobility.

The exposition is filled with images of mythical animals, historical and fictional characters, medieval beauties. In her project, Antonina finds an image of an untouched and calm space: her references to classical art are groping in the darkness of today. Art is not a panacea and is not capable of changing the world order, but you can find refuge in it, at least for a while.

The exhibition will run until February 24, 2022. The gallery is located in the DAA Center for Architecture and Design on Krasnogvardeiskaya Square, 3E, 3rd floor, E3-130. Free admission. Tuesday-Saturday: from 12:00 to 19:00.