Exhibition of Olga Alekseevna Kuzminova "Point of view. Painting. Graphics" Automatic translate

Olga Alekseevna Kuzminova was born in Suzdal, but since 1969 her life has been closely linked with Kaluga, where her family moved. Here she graduated from the children’s art school. Then she studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (course of M. Miturich), which she graduated in 1989 (diploma work under the direction of L.A. Tokmakov). Since the 1990s, she has been an active participant in city, regional, zonal, republican and international exhibitions, Russian and international plein airs. Her works have been exhibited at eleven solo exhibitions.

O. A. Kuzminova winner of the 20th Creative Competition of Women-Artists of Russia 2012 in the "Graphics" nomination, laureate of the Obraz Gallery Prize (1998,) laureate of the Afanasia Kulikova (2000, 2014, 2015, 2017), laureate of the city exhibition-competition award for the best work of fine art on the Kaluga theme (2014, 2016), laureate of the city exhibition-competition award "For Search and Experiment in Art" (2015).

Her works are kept in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Landscape named after I. Levitan (village Eliseikovo, Vladimir region), the House of the Master named after I. V. Sorokin (Lipetsk), Memorial Museum. Gagarin (Gagarin, Smolensk region); Tarusa and Maloyaroslavets art galleries, the Museum of the History of Obninsk, SSS Suhl (Germany), in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Currently, O.A. Kuzminova - Associate Professor of KSU named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Member of the Board of the Kaluga branch of the Union of Artists of Russia.

The exposition of the exhibition “Point of View. Painting. Graphics ”presents both graphic and pictorial works of O. Kuzminova, created in recent years. These are mainly landscapes and still lifes, abstract compositions. Despite various artistic quests in the field of depicting space, color and form, the author works in the spirit of realism, but one can feel the echoes of the avant-garde trends of the early twentieth century. In his graphic works "Spatial Slices" and "Comparison of Things", the artist constructs space and creates objects that fill it with the help of lines and strokes, a restrained color scheme gives a strict sophistication to his works.

The paintings of A.O. Kuzminova is also characterized by a prostate and a lapidary form, a powerful sound of color. Therefore, even small-format landscapes of Kaluga streets from the picturesque cycle “Walk at Dusk. Mayakovka "and a number of other views of Kaluga look expressive and monumental. The series of still lifes "Flower Suite" is distinguished by the severe simplicity of form and decorative sound of color.

In his paintings and graphic works, no matter what topic they are written on, the author concludes a deep philosophical meaning, his poetic vision of the world, revealing through them his own "point of view" on the world: behind the depiction of nature views, city landscapes, everyday objects an image appears earthly existence.