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Photographs by Valery
Konevin
The Mayfair Times,
August 2002
Page 1: Art & Antiques -
Ikra and the Hay Hill Gallery introduce a series of contemporary Russian
artists.
 Page 8, Section Art & Antiques:
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At the bottom of the
picture:
Deep colour meets image-symbol: Svetlana
Kourmas, A Horse, oil on canvas, 2002 |
Symbol centre stage
COLOUR AND SYMBOL play key roles in the
latest exhibition at another gallery set up to exhibit modern Russian
work, Hay Hill.
The gallery, in the street of the same name,
focuses on realism but also shows painters who work in radically
different styles. Although modern, the artists pay homage to academic
traditions.
The three artists in the current exhibition
include Svetlana Kourmas, whose work is guided by "metaphysical
realism", where a deep colour is combined with an image-symbol. She has
participated in more than 50 exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Italy,
Sweden, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the UK.
European and Asian cultural traditions meet, with
turquoise, warm ochre and cold red creating a "musical" space, in the
paintings of Timur Akhmedov, who comes from Uzbekistan. A winner of the
Grand Prix Asia-Art, he has shown his work at more than 40 exhibitions.
Alexander Sokht's intimate pictures, notable for
their irony, delicacy, feeling for colour and accurate stylisation, are
based on the search for abstract symbolism and for the "inner child".
Hay Hill opened in May as a joint venture between
Russian company Art Service Centre and British firm Sirin.
The current exhibition runs until 17 August, with
another Russian artist, S Plutenko, on display from 19 August to 28
September. |
We have some changes to the dates of
the exhibitions made when this article was in print:
Svetlana Kourmas, Timur Akhmedov,
Alexander Sokht - 23 July to 14 September 2002;
Stanislav Plutenko - 16
September to 19 October 2002;
Vera Pavlova, Galina Rusak - 21
October to 23 November 2002.
Photo Report from the Reception
of 23 July 2002
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