TEXTHITERGRUND TWO ARTISTS Automatic translate

“… Isabella and Anna Chulkova are Russian artists from Cologne.

Bella has been exhibiting continuously since 1984, first in the Union, and then from 1996 in Germany. From the very beginning, she outlined two lines in her work - abstract compositions and objective, figurative.

… A series of works “Texts and subtexts” is very important in its significance for the artist’s creativity. The relief text applied to the canvas is an implication in two senses: it sets out the plot, but is located under the layer of painting, in other words, it appears under the text.

The German name of the Texthintergrund series is a play on words and is translated as subtext, the second meaning of the text and at the same time its basis, background, undermining….

Anna’s painting (since 1998 lives and works in Cologne) is intuitive and emotional. She is independent in her manner and vision of the world.

A large series of works on the theme of the sea begins with the painting “Fragments of Time”. But it does not realize the landscape idea, but the image of the sea as a conceptual solution to the problem of time.

…. Of 27 small abstract compositions (40x40), like puzzles, a large canvas is formed, on which the sparkling sea occupies the entire space. The huge sea gives the impression of paradise on earth. But paradise is fraught with drama.

Sometimes it seems that sisters, choosing close rhythms, find a similarity of interests, but as artists they express them in different ways.

The works of the sisters, with all the internal similarities, represent different branches of modern German painting of the first decade of the 21st century.

Isabella and Anna take an active part in exhibitions both in Germany and abroad. "