A solo exhibition by Lyubov Magina opens at the Gallery of Modern Art of RT SMFA

October 24, 2014, at 16.00, a solo exhibition by Lyubov Magina opens at the Hall of Graphs Gallery of Modern Art Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan.

This is the first solo exhibition by the artist Lyubov Magina in Kazan, whose works art lovers meet at the Kazan exhibitions since the 1990s.

The exhibition includes approximately 100 works performed in different forms and genres: original and prints, collage, dolls ...; landscapes, nudes, portraits, mythological and genre scenes...

In landscapes by Magina architecture of ancient temples of Kazan and its environs appears as an integral part of the natural landscape. She uses in them  gouache paints, thick batches which give rise to almost a pictorial texture, mold  forms, weave them into ornaments, a camertone of which is folk art, with its strong traditions, purity and sonorous colors, epic experience of the world, poetization  of everyday elements, ringing with joy of being. In the still-life and portraits, she often resorts to watercolors, transparency which allows you to send flower bouquets and tenderness of women's faces, to capture their short-lived beauty.

Mythological compositions by L.Magina, coupled with philosophical reflections on the meaning of life, about lessons of history, the impermanence of existence and high purpose, dazzle by plastic expressiveness, making first perceive them at some intuitive level, and then look into the characters, in their bizarre interactions, affirming allegiance to the first sensory perception. Here she uses charcoal and sanguine - a mixture of black and blood-brown color appears as a symbol of dualism of being and velvety texture of materials adds a special depth of mystical space, created by the artist.

Figures made in the art to combine work with ink and collage - "Sitting", "Captive", "Waiting", "Second birth" (2012) - form a kind of series, revealing the inner world of a woman, her feelings, fears and hopes. In refined graphic minimalism of these pictures organically assimilated artistic culture of the European avant-garde is shown.

Black and white monotypes by L. Magina filled with expression and drama reflect, the quest of spirituality and religious reflection. Using the technique of dry needles in conjunction not with a metal board (as in the classic engraving), and with plastic, allows her to receive prints of dense black color, born from the depths of her luminous images of children.