Exhibition "Neo-Baroque" Automatic translate

The Mokhovaya-18 Gallery of Contemporary Art presents the Neo-Baroque festive exhibition. As part of the exhibition, paintings, drawings and author’s dolls by St. Petersburg artist Elena Novikova will be exhibited from December 11 to 30, 2015.

Beauty will save the world

On the eve of the New Year holidays, the Mokhovaya-18 Gallery prepared a special exposition for Petersburgers. Guests of the gallery will plunge into the magical world of fairy-tale characters, bizarre animals and plants that fill the work of Elena Novikova. The elaborate costumes, winding lines, grotesquely painted world of flora and fauna send us back to the Baroque era. The art of Elena Novikova is a rethinking, a new vision of the Baroque style. Everything breathes aesthetics here: poses, composition, elegant hand gestures, lace, and drapery fabrics. No wonder one of the author’s most famous works is called Beauty Will Save the World.

Flower triumph

Original images, born in the artist’s dreams, in a peculiar way interpret the usual associative series: “Beauty and the Beast”, Flora’s allegory, “Thumbelina”. All of them seemed to have come down from illustrations of medieval surreal tales.

Some theatricality and "toy" characters Novikova is no coincidence. For many years now, the author has been lovingly creating dolls based on the images of his fairy-tale characters, which will also be on display.

Angel child

In addition, Elena Novikova’s etchings, depicting St. Petersburg landscapes and fantasy plots, will become an integral part of the exhibition. It should be noted that in the modern world absorbed by digital technologies, very few authors work in the most complicated classical etching technique; which once again emphasizes the original worldview of the artist, creating in the tradition of "old masters".

The exhibition can be visited daily from 11. 30 to 19. 30, the day off is Sunday.

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Golden head and wandering plant