Irina Lebedeva - Accidents Automatic translate

Irina Lebedeva was born in Leningrad in 1959. Higher technical education (LITMO, 1983). In 2007, she defended her diploma in the specialty Manager in the field of culture of the International program "INTERSTUDIO".

From 1990 to 2009, she worked at the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications. She was the organizer of several exhibitions, including the contemporary art exhibitions "Mailartissimo" and "Era of Space".

Since 2012 I have been engaged in painting and graphics in the workshop of Lev Smorgon. I studied in the studio of Konstantin Polyakov. I took lessons from Dmitry Markul. I studied linocut with Natalia Maksimova in the Open Workshops on Ligovka.

From September 2013 to November 2014, she was a free listener at the icon painting school of Andrei Ponomarev at the Optina Pustyn Temple. She painted several icons. The Deisis is in one of the churches of Old Peterhof.

IFA member since 2018.

Exhibitions

• 2015 Personal exhibition of graphics in the workshop of Lev Smorgon
• 2016 Participation in the exhibition at the Anna Akhmatova Museum “Chips are flying”
• 2017 Personal exhibition "Flowers and so on" in the library "Bronnitskaya"
• 2018 Participation in the IFA exhibition "M&F"
• 2019 Participation in the exhibition "Day One" in the V. Mayakovsky Library
• 2020 Participation in the IFA exhibition "Simply Space…"
• 2021 Joint exhibition with L. N. Smorgon "Free admission" at IFA
• 2023 Participation in the IFA exhibition "Faces and Appearances"
• Participation in the IFA Charity Exhibition "Involvement"
• 2024 Participation in the IFA exhibition "Man and Woman"
• Participation in the IFA exhibition "Borders of Graphics"
• from 2017 to 2024 Participation in the IFA exhibitions "Summer Internship" and "Work of the Year"

Irina Lebedeva

CHANCE is the main character in my paintings. And I would really like there to be some lightness. But always (always!) for me everything happens differently. As an electrical engineer who was introduced to art at the right time, with my exhibition I clearly, but riskily, propose that everyone join this wonderful miracle called PAINTING (or graphics).

The exhibition presents paintings from recent years. Many have been redrawn, so there is still a lot under the top layer. This is due to uncertainty. But the exhibition in Borea will give me strength, I know that for sure.

— Maria Usova, Teacher at the A. L. Stieglitz Academy

EXHIBITION OF COINCIDENCES

Studying with artists, heirs and continuers of the traditions of the St. Petersburg school of avant-garde painting, undoubtedly influenced the artistic style of Irina Lebedeva. It should be noted that in the absence of an academic school, there is nothing in her works that is called naive or primitive in art. The collective mind of the avant-garde over many years has developed such an artistic language (with many dialects) that can be spoken without a certificate from any academy. Possessing a vision of color, taste and the ability to carefully select, Irina maintains a spontaneity that is undoubtedly genuine and sufficient to enter the open ocean of free painting.

"Chance is the main character of my paintings."

The exhibition consists of works from recent years, including landscapes, still lifes, flowers and portraits of loved ones, some of which were painted from memory. Irina Lebedeva constantly returns to childhood memories of her mother and of herself as a little girl, with a feeling that is both bright and sad. In the special state of color, which is in constant motion and even anxiety, there is a certain spontaneity, which Irina calls "chance" (a "feeling of mismatch with similarity" like V. Shklovsky’s "estrangement"). It does not appear suddenly, but is quite expected by the artist, who works to create the conditions for its emergence. Working on a canvas, Irina consciously pursues, searches for, waits for the appearance of a reflection of this "chance" in color, light, line, emptiness, in their union or confrontation. Often she repaints the canvas many times until she catches "this bird in a snare." “Accident” here is not a mistake, not an oversight, but evidence of freedom and sincerity.