Russian Spring
Medici Gallery
Andrey Demin
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Front Cover: ‘Amber Twilight’ oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm (23.5 x 35.5 in)
Asya Feoktistova
‘Summer Book’ (detail) oil on canvas 150 x 160 cm (59 x 63 in)
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Dmitry Lisichenko
Back Cover: ‘On the Waves’ acrylic on canvas 60 x 80 cm (23.5 x 31.5 in)
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Evgenia Buravleva
‘One Day in London’ (detail) oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm (23.5 x 31.5 in)
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Maria Stcherbinina
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‘Before the Concert’ (detail) oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm (23.5 x 35.5 in)
Svetlana Rumak
‘School’ acrylic on canvas 90 x 90 cm (35.5 x 35.5 in)
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Russian Spring Six Contemporary Russian Artists Andrey Demin, Dmitry Lisichenko, Maria Stcherbinina,Asya Feoktistova, Evgenia Buravleva, Svetlana Rumak In association with Sokol Fine Art 5th – 28th March 2013
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6.00 – 8.00 pm,Tuesday 5th March
Medici Gallery
5 Cork Street, London W1S 3LQ
020 7495 2565 info@medicigallery.co.uk www.medicigallery.co.uk
Andrey Demin “I first saw paintings before I could even walk and communicated with professional painters even before I learnt to talk. What else could I have become, if not an artist!” (Andrey Demin)
Born in 1962 into the family of the famous Russian artist, Leonid Demin,Andrey was sent as a ten-year-old to art school where, surrounded by more experienced artists, he concentrated mainly on still-life work. In 1996 he was discovered by Marina Sokolskaya who first exhibited his works in Mayfair. Andrey’s travels across the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland have had a powerful influence on his painting, and he is particularly inspired by the beauty and drama of the
‘The Artist's Studio in the Snow’ oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm (35.5 x 47 in)
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Swiss landscape. As befits an artist trained in the traditional Russian impressionist style, he seeks to fill his canvases with light and a sense of space. All is mystery and imagination and his open, airy style conveys an otherworldliness which calls to mind strange, mythical kingdoms. His work has a gentle serenity, nothing to jar the senses and his landscapes, particularly, have a wistful air of innocence and honesty. His floral pieces, too, are uncomplicated, exuberant and immediate.That these beautiful paintings are so straight-forward and easy to read is, no doubt, a major factor in Andrey’s international success.
‘Summer Fields in Flower’ oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm (27.5 x 35.5 in)
Andrey Demin
‘Autumn Palette’ oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm (47 x 59 in)
‘Early Blossom’ oil on canvas 65 x 70 cm (25.5 x 27.5 in)
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Andrey Demin
‘Zagorsk Monastery’ oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm (35.5 x 47 in)
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‘Boating on the Lake’ oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm (31.5 x 39 in)
Dmitry Lisichenko
Dmitry Lisichenko was born into a musical family in Moscow in 1976. He trained at the Moscow Art Lyceum, and later the Surikov Art Institute, where he came under the influence of the distinguished professors, Evgeny Maximov and Ivan Lubennikov. After graduating, Dmitry worked as a restorer, repairing the famous murals of Moscow Cathedral.This gave the artist a unique opportunity to hone his skills as a painter. An artist and lover of art since childhood, over time he developed his delicate, romantic style and his distinctive palette of soft, pastel shades.
Lisichenko is noted for his atmospheric compositions with their elegant, meditative and often enigmatic women and works very much in the Russian Romantic Realist tradition, popularised by such people as writer/philosopher Ayn Rand.The quality and the technical mastery of Lisichenko’s paintings means that his work is much admired and very collectable. His work can be found in private collections worldwide.
‘Guardian of the Seas’ acrylic on canvas 95 x 75 cm (37.5 x 29.5 in)
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Dmitry Lisichenko
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‘Dreaming of Earth’ acrylic on canvas 55 x 80 cm (21.5 x 31.5 in)
Maria Stcherbinina Maria Stcherbinina was born into an artistic family in Moscow in 1965. She studied painting at the Moscow University of Design, the famous institute founded by Sergei Stroganov.The school retained much of the influence of Lissitzky, Kandinsky and Malevich, who had transformed it in the 1920s.
After her graduation in 2000, her work started to be exhibited internationally and she now regularly exhibits in London and the rest of the UK, Ireland and Switzerland. Maria Stcherbinina uses a light, luminous palette in her en plein air paintings, such as ‘Swans’, and her use of impasto and rich colours creates a characteristic sense of movement, life and vigour in her work.
‘White Irises’ oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm (23.5 x 31.5 in)
‘Swans’ oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm (23.5 x 31.5 in)
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Maria Stcherbinina
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‘Bright Morning’ oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm (15.75 x 19.5 in)
Asya Feoktistova Asya Feoktistova is an artist and stage designer born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 1967. Upon her graduation from the Moscow College of Art in 1986, she worked in her native city where her remarkable and bright vision was formed.Working as a theatrical artist triggered her desire for artistic experiment combining a wide spectrum of distinctive aesthetic genres.
One of the biggest influences on her work was a renowned artist of the older generation, Oleg Bordey. His unconventional poetic way of painting as well as an unshakeable confidence in his artistic beliefs gave the young artist a strong sense of direction and self-assurance.
Asya’s oils and graphic works possess the creative energy of surprise and are composed with harmony of colour which accentuates its dynamic movement within the painting. Colour acts as an essential tool of expression for the artist and aids in her interpretation of internal and external emotional environments.
The art of Asya Feoktistova has numerous admirers and followers due to her active participation in group shows and personal exhibitions.‘Awaiting the Tulips’ and ‘Kiwi Time’ were two of her collections exhibited in the State Museum of Art in Nizhny Novgorod.The freshness and positivity of her paintings in these exhibitions reflected the uplifting spirit of the coming spring, a meaningful sign at the end of a harsh Russian winter. Other projects took place in unusual venues such as the ruins of the Tsar’s cinema, an abandoned mansion as well as in the labyrinths of Nizhny Novgorod’s Art Workshop and embassies in Moscow. Following the immense success of Asya Feoktistova’s exhibitions and a strong public following of her work, she has permanently moved to Moscow.The geography of her exhibitions and collectors continues to grow and now includes Russia, Switzerland,Austria, Great Britain, Italy, France and USA.
‘Still Life With Orchid’ oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in)
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Asya Feoktistova
‘Poem About Tulips’ oil on canvas 100 x 150 cm (39 x 59 in)
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‘Bread & Honey’ oil on canvas 100 x 150 cm (39 x 59 in)
‘African Necklace’ oil on canvas 150 x 70 cm (59 x 27.5 in)
Evgenia Buravleva
Evgenia Buravleva was born in 1980 in Kirov, Russia. She graduated from Vyatka Art College in 2000 and Vyatka State Humanitarian University in 2001. Following this she attended the Surikov Academy of Art in Moscow and spent a year abroad studying at the Berlin University of Arts in 2007. She was awarded a Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Arts in 2008 and became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists in 2009. Buravleva’s work is expressionistic in feeling. She begins her work with formal areas of colour and from these beginnings the figurative elements, which are often architectural in form, evolve. She cites Raoul Dufy as a major influence on her work and she employs the Fauvist’s trademark broad brushstrokes and vigour in her paintings, however, her Russian heritage shines through in her use of subtle and muted colours. Evgenia’s works are held in private and corporate collections in Russia and abroad, including the Russian Cultural Foundation, the collection of the Moscow Union of Artists, the Kovcheg Gallery in Moscow, the collection of the Russian Regional Art Museum and the Ferapontov Monastery. Buravleva’s work has only very recently been available in the UK, and is increasingly collectable.
‘Trafalgar Square’ oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm (59 x 59 in)
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Evgenia Buravleva
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‘Twilight’ oil on canvas 35 x 45 cm (14 x 18 in)
Svetlana Rumak Svetlana was born in 1969 in Poltava and received her art education at the Institute of Art in Naberezhnye Chelny and the prestigious Art Academy of Russia in Kazan. Her painting is filled with quotations from classical Russian art, from the folk style of the Lybok and the “otherwordliness” and stylization of icons to echoes of Malevitch, in her uses of colour and texture to elicit emotion. Her work has been widely shown in the USA, the UK, France, Germany and within Russia and is held internationally in both private and public collections.
‘Search for a Spring’ acrylic on canvas 100 x 80 cm (39 x 31.5 in)
‘Still Life with Blue Vase’ acrylic on canvas 60 x 70 cm (23.5 x 27.5 in)
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