Lucy Voronova. Irga Lamarca Automatic translate

The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts will host the exhibition "Lucy Voronova. Irga Lamarca" from October 5 to November 3, 2024, organized by the Lucy Voronova Art Support Foundation. The exhibition will feature paintings and graphic works, many of which are exhibited for the first time and were created specifically for this project. In her latest works, the author continues the theme of ornamentation, intertwined with abstract and plant elements.

The exhibition title refers to the natural world, which is so dear to all naive artists, on the one hand, and on the other hand, is close to those who, like Lyusya Voronova, professionally explore the plastic, pictorial and formal elements of artistic language, who could reduce distances and create opportunities for more open, direct, sensual contact with the world. “I draw constantly. I draw vibrations and breathing, the flickering of a train outside the window. My works do not interfere with thinking. The viewer immerses himself in his thoughts, listens to himself. It is a trance, meditation. Music,” says Lyusya Voronova.

Amelanchier lamarckii is a shrub or tree, a hybrid of two species, named after the French naturalist. Its buds - with white stars of petals - open in spring on a carpet of pink foliage that changes color throughout the seasons. The dynamics of growth, the multiplication of life and the multiplication of benefits - themes that became especially important for Lyusya Voronova’s mosaic, "joyful" period, which began about six years ago.

The large-scale project concludes the anniversary year of Lucy Voronova, during which several exhibitions were held in Moscow and other cities of Russia, and the art album “Mosaic” was published and presented at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts.

The head of the Lucy Voronova Foundation, Georgy Voronov, said that the foundation’s immediate plans include organizing a series of exhibitions of Lucy Voronova’s works from private collections dedicated to the "joyful" period. In the future, this practice will become permanent, and all collectors of this period will be able to take part in it. In addition to museum sites, they are actively developing the online direction. This year, virtual exhibition spaces will appear on the foundation’s website, which anyone from anywhere in the world will be able to visit.

"In her search, Lyusya Voronova moves further and further away from naive art towards geometric abstraction. The artist reduces the form of a flower to its geometric foundations, showing how the abstract language of higher mathematics and the sensory range of nature are interdependent, and how together they generate an ornament, a special principle of rhythmic visualization," says exhibition curator Mikhail Sidlin. Voronova graduated from the Moscow Technological Institute with honors, with a tapestry as her final project. Even in her student years, applied and folk art aroused her keen interest and attention. She willingly goes on expeditions and collects field material, exploring the customs and mysteries of decorative elements and patterns, naive imagery and eternal subjects.

The exhibition project “Irga Lamarca” is a direct consequence of the author’s life and creative biography.

Exhibition curator: Mikhail Sidlin.