Tales of Bright and Brittle (Racconti di Fulgore e Fragilità), è la terza personale in Italia dell’artista inglese di origine russa
Veronica Smirnoff, presentata ieri in anteprima alla
galleria Riccardo Crespi di Milano e aperta al pubblico da oggi fino al 20 luglio 2018.
Le opere in mostra, concepite e dipinte tra il 2017 e il 2018, traggono ispirazione dalle esperienze dell'artista nei luoghi, dal suo amore per libri e racconti, nel rispetto di storia, miti ed epiche comuni.
"La magia dell’audacia di raccontare quel che sempre accade nello spazio mentale -spiega la Smirnoff- è la prova dell'immaginazione che permette di muoverci liberamente nel regno della fantasia, riluttanti a mettere in discussione la mancanza di logica tra le cose incomprensibili che prima o poi trovano un senso e ci insegnano qualcosa sul mondo reale."
La tempera all'uovo su tavola gessata, una delle tecniche più antiche e minuziose, è strumentale al procedimento in cui l’artista combina la tecnica dell’icona con la miniatura, la tradizione asiatica con l'arte popolare, nonché con spunti e simboli da altre fonti, per aggiungere significato e validità ai suoi soggetti. Impadronendosi di diversi linguaggi pittorici attraverso giustapposizione irrazionale e pura intuizione, fa intuire il conflitto tra figurazione e astrazione, un equilibrio sottile e costantemente re-immaginato tra allegoria e appropriazione.
Galleria Riccardo Crespi
via mellerio 1 - Milano
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Echelon, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 130 x 120 cm |
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Firebird, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 21 x 18 cm |
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Goldfish, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 59 x 70 cm |
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Moonlight Flit, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 27 x 31 cm |
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Optina, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 28 x 22 cm |
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Play Up, Play Up And Play The Game, 2013, egg tempera on wood, 60 x 180 cm |
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Rising By Fire, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 100 x 100 cm |
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Scarlet and Seraphim, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 60 x 80 cm |
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Harvest at Night, 2018, I see You and No Horizon's Blade, 2018 ,
egg tempera on wood, 51 x 30 cm egg tempera on wood, 51 x 30 cm - |
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The Chase, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 30 x 51 cm |
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The Fall of Koschei the Deathless, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 60 x 80 cm |
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Wayfaring, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 25 x 13 cm |
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Wonder-working Space Traveller, 2018, egg tempera on wood, 59 x 70 cm |
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