Exhibition of Catherine Chubich "See the world ..." Automatic translate

You can look at the world through the eyes of an adult, through the eyes of a child, or you can through the eyes of an artist. An unusual technique, when you want to touch the paintings, represents the depth of the material and the depth of the creator. Gray-brown spots of volumes, quivering chiaroscuro and precise touches emphasize the light movement of the figure or the rough surface of the wall. We can see an animalistic composition or a Venetian landscape on the textured surface of the paper, and recall the lines of Joseph Brodsky: “The slow movement of a boat through the night resembles a passage of connected thought through the subconscious…”

“The meeting with the work of Ekaterina Chubich cannot but be remembered, cannot leave anyone indifferent… The blame for everything is the pulsating Emotion emanating from each artist’s work… Contemporary art gives the viewer less and less pure emotions,“ nakedness ”of thought and inadvertent versatility.. The simplicity of the plot and the complexity of the technique - this alliance makes Catherine’s graphics accessible to perception by unprepared eyes and souls… It is especially valuable that you leave the exhibition not with a “square head”, but with a heart full of emotions! I would call Ekaterina’s work “craquelure graphics”: thanks to the author’s technique, a feeling of aged canvas is created… This is also Emotion, because we know that the author works with paper and watercolor… Objects in the space of graphic works are tangible, breathe, be then buildings, boats or wolves, bears… It seems that it is worth lending a hand and you, like Alice, will fall into another world, a world full of adventure and sincerity, at the same time everything is recognizable and naturalistic… But this is already work for the soul and imagination of everyone…

Ekaterina Chubich is a regular participant in exhibitions and projects of the New Exhibition Hall of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture: “Japan. Traditions and Contemporaneity ”,“ Dolce vita. Federico Fellini ”,“ Zooart ”,“ Fashion and Contemporary Art ”and others. Participation in collective exhibitions is a great responsibility of the artist: not to get lost among the many varied works and take“ his ”place in the exposition. With Catherine, this is easy and painless. Her graphic works, even despite their colorlessness, always attract attention and do not remain unnoticed by visitors to the exhibitions… Ekaterina Chubich, of those masters, looking at the works of which do not ask the question: “What did the author want to say?” Today in a world full of information intelligibility and accessibility are an important quality of the artist’s creative component… Catherine possesses such a quality and thereby “keeps up” with the times… ”.

Natalia Malysheva, art critic, employee of the New Exhibition Hall of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture.

Information about the artist: Ekaterina Chubich

Member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Graduated from St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University named after Stieglitz (LVHPU named after Mukhina).

She worked at the NHC SP State Hermitage Museum (1990-2000)

Winner of the Friends of the Rosa Bonnier Prize in the genre of animalistics-Paris, Autumn Art Salon 2014, Grand Palais.

Graduate of the 1st All-Russian Exhibition of Watercolor 2002.

Winner of the Grand Prix and 1st place (2010), 2nd place (2009, 2012) at the Russian Art Week International Competition in the category “Experimental Graphics” among professionals.

Winner of the Audience Choice Award on Museum Night from the Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation.

Member of the scientific and artistic expedition of St. Petersburg Regional Public Fund,, Flag Andreev Grad Petrov’’Petrov ’’ (2011)

Participant of the charity project,, Freedom ’’ (Smolny, 2014),,, Art-Anfas ’’, curator A.Magalashvili, creative association,, Which.Net ’’, curator M.Krasilnikova, Zooculture, Zooart, etc.

Member of the All-Russian watercolor plein air in the Trans-Urals (2002)

Actively exhibited (CEH,, Manege ’’, St. Petersburg Union of Artists halls, New Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Urban Sculpture, Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation, City Center for Books and Graphics, LENEXPO, Russian Center for Science and Culture in Helsinki, Gran Palais Exhibition Hall in Paris, Kurgan Regional Art Museum, Severomorsky Museum of the History of the City and Navy, Dacha Lindstrom-Konstantinovsky Palace, galleries, etc.). Participant in more than 50 exhibitions. Engaged in graphics, painting, wall paintings, illustrations. Collaborates with architects, publishers Including Paletti (Finland) -otkrytki, TD Pico illustrated calendars, etc. Works are in museums and private collections in Russia and abroad (Japan, USA, Finland)

Favorite landscape genres, in particular, urban; animalistic.

Creative credo-ecological naturalism, spatial and emotional reflection of the surrounding world in all its splendor using minimalistic means; an experiment is a textural manifestation of the unpredictability of pressed surfaces extending into the volume; the lightness inhaled into the sheet by repeatedly absorbing pigments that create airiness and light.