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Exhibition “Russia - China. Without translation" is timed to coincide with the Year of China in Russia and is the third large-scale traveling project of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Natalia Ovsienko in the Kaluga region - this is a story about two great countries, their original cultures, the beauty and features of natural landscapes.

In his paintings dedicated to the Russian land, N. Ovsienko continues the tradition of the luminaries of Russian painting, the Itinerant artists - A. Savrasov, I. Levitan, V. Polenov. Poetizing national nature, the author reveals its discreet beauty and subtly conveys shades of mood and states.

The canvases of the Chinese cycle are ethnographic in nature, introducing the viewer to the special world of its eastern neighbor. Colorful travel notes about the life and everyday life of the Celestial Empire, colorful exquisite still lifes and landscapes, in which the author’s acquaintance with the visual culture of the East can be traced, develop under the artist’s brush into picturesque and philosophical narratives about this powerful ancient civilization.

Since 2012, N. Ovsienko has been making ceramics, which has become a new means of creative expression for her. Feeling the material and skillfully using its plastic properties, she creates images full of spiritual purity and sincere feelings, reflects on ancient eras and the heritage of her ancestors, conveys through clay her ideas about human life and the range of everyday concerns, which at first glance seem simple and uncomplicated, but in the sensitive hands of the artist they are filled with beingness and metaphysics. The ceramic works created by the author under the influence of the visual traditions of the Russian avant-garde and folk culture deserve special attention. These stylistic meaningful objects show N. Ovsienko as a creator capable of being different in his aesthetic searches depending on the tasks assigned.

Natalia Dmitrievna Ovsienko is a famous Russian artist who has been working in the field of painting and graphics for more than 30 years. Born in the city of Sterlitamak, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Natalia Dmitrievna graduated from Moscow State Technical University. N. E. Bauman, Institute of Retraining and Advanced Training, Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov (cultural studies), Faculty of Fine and Visual Arts, Moscow State University for the Humanities. M. A. Sholokhov (fine arts), class of portrait and figurative painting at the New York Academy of Arts. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the Moscow Union of Artists. Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Participant of more than 60 exhibitions of painting and graphics (of which more than 30 were personal), successfully held in the USA, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, India, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia.

Her path in art is complex, full of searches for her place and style in painting. N. Ovsienko is not afraid to write as she sees and feels the world around her. In her works, in addition to the natural motif, there is also a mood and an author’s point of view. Since 2012, she has been actively involved in ceramics, participating in more than 20 exhibitions of applied art.

The author’s works are in the collections of state art museums of Bashkortostan, Ryazan, Kaluga, Tula and Lipetsk regions, the National Village Museum named after. D. Gusti (Bucharest, Romania), All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts (Moscow), as well as in private collections in Russia, the USA, Greece and Ukraine.

Author of the textbook “Introduction to World Artistic Culture” (Moscow, 2012).  

She was awarded the badge of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation “For contribution to Russian culture”, medals of the Russian Academy of Arts “Worthy” and “For Merit to the Academy”, gold medal of the Union of Artists of Russia “Spirituality, Traditions, Mastery”, medals of the Kaluga Region “For Special Merit” before the Kaluga region" II and III degrees. She was awarded the Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Venerable Euphrosyne, Grand Duchess of Moscow, as well as awards from the Kaluga diocese - the medal of St. Tikhon of Kaluga and the medal of the Hieromartyr Kuksha - enlightener of Vyatichi.

Laureate of numerous artistic competitions, winner of international art festivals.