Irina Dudina. Borovaya and surroundings Automatic translate

The exhibition is a series of St. Petersburg landscapes created by the author with oil paints on a furniture hardboard. It all started with the fact that several years ago, finding in her workshop old oil paints left by previous artists, and finding sheets of hardboard in the garbage dump, Irina Dudina indulged in capturing the surroundings of Borova Street, on which her attic is located.

First of all, the author is attracted by ordinary Petersburg. Cars littered with snow, thawed hatches, graffiti on the walls, overlooking the walls of houses with numerous paint layers, picturesque rusty roofs, old poplars, factory outskirts. Particularly attracting is a nagging sense of acceptance of the ugly life of very dilapidated and aged "new buildings." For several years, about a hundred works have been written that attracted the attention of the author’s friends and acquaintances. So the idea was born to make an exhibition.

The exhibition in Korea will feature some of the work in this series.

Irina Dudina, an uncompromising fighter with injustice, an agitator and tribunes, in her political rugs, posters and articles, not afraid to raise the most pressing issues of modern life, at this exhibition unexpectedly opens with a new side of her work - as a subtle landscape painter. In her urban sketches, we see the seemingly familiar motifs of St. Petersburg’s backyards, painted and sung a thousand times - houses, gateways, courtyards, firewalls, the dark waters of the canals, wet gray snow… But behind all this, the lively voice of the artist and the poet sounds, filling familiar landscapes with the triumph of life and the indifferent love that is characteristic of everything that Irina Dudina does.

Lydia Nizhankovskaya

Irina Dudina is a St. Petersburg artist, journalist, writer and poet. Member of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg (poster section) and the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg (9 section). She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University (Department of Aesthetics), worked as a teacher, businessman, journalist. Founder and editor of the magazines Bolt and Bohemian Petersburg. Winner of the 1st Slam of the poets of St. Petersburg, author of the poetry collections “Harizmapad”, “At the Feast of Flora”, “Hemoglobin”, “Hell and Paradise. He is the author of prose books “Singing of birds in a lying position”, “The leader of mascarons”, “Gentle and broken”, “Flowers of evil on Russian soil”. The founder of a new genre in art - "political rugs" - posters from chintz. The works are in the collections of the Konstantinovsky Palace, the Tsarskoye Selo collection museum, many galleries and collectors in Russia, Japan, Germany, and the USA.