Large French trip

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The exhibition "The Great French Journey" which is currently in the Gallery Expo 88, tomorrow will be opening a personal exhibition of my cousins, Masha Schmidt, who currently lives and works in the exhibition without Parizhe.Personalnaya Masha, Masha because of due to bureaucratic delays could not arrive in Moskvu.Poprobuyu I write a little about this project at the forum and invite all to this wonderful exhibition.
So ...
LARGE FRENCH TRIP "
9 weeks, 9 SHOWS, 9 ARTISTS

   An amazing coincidence! In Russia, ending a year of France, and in the heart of Moscow, in a house that was built just after the War of 1812, the gallery Expo 1988 on Oct. 1 a new season. And it starts with the art project "The Great French journey."
   Knowing the passing event in the gallery on the street Zabelina suddenly discovered that there are lots of great artists, old friends and regular contributors of gallery exhibitions that are as devotedly loved France. And not just love, and fix their love on the canvas.
   In fact, everything happened, of course, not suddenly. " Once in the gallery called her longtime friend Konstantin Sutyagin and said: "Guys, I have here have accumulated a certain number of French drawings. Maybe it will show?" Behind him turned up Igor Kamyanov virtually the same proposal. And away we go ... Masha Schmidt for 20 years living in Paris, Galina Bystritskaya too long been "torn" between the two countries.
   Whatever it was - the project "a big French tour" literally begged on the gallery walls. The result - two months of continuous picturesque France, 9 weeks of exhibition, 9 artists .. Dictate the order of: Konstantin Sutyagin, Igor Kamyanov, Hope Krestinina, Alexander Shevchenko, Janna Yakovleva, Olga Pluzhnikov, Galina Bystritskaya, Maria Schmidt, Anastasia Slepysheva. Each of his solo exhibition at length in one week will present its own vision of France.
   Those who keep coming to the exhibition in Expo 88, knows that all these artists have a very important property - their pictorial language is recognizable. And he is absolutely at all different - from the almost naive Sutyagin and Krestinina to the powerful oil Bystritskaya expression or, conversely, almost intimate miniatures Pluzhnikov, of which, like the mist, there is a cozy atmosphere of Parisian cafes and boulevards. In
these works, in vain search for a photographic likeness, and why? The main thing for artists - to catch a moment, that unique moment when in one place suddenly all fits together: light, incredible colors, shadows, movement and, of course, the unique nature - vast expanses of Normandy, Brittany, Paris, of course.
    The beauty of these places encourages taken not only by the wrist, but his pen. And our artists, followed by paintings often appear to explain his love for the beautiful France. Words they ask the very picture of how a Sutyagin: "Very convenient nice to sit in a cafe, drink calvados, or even espresso coffee, look around and be sad. Comfort makes the horror and tragedy just sadness." Or add up to a whole essay in Bystritskaya: Norman about rocks, crunchy like shortbread with the impact of waves of mist from the English Channel, covering the beaches, gardens and farm and at the same time about the "dress haute couture in Paris - all of the pockets, pockets, and even tiny branches. And in each of the garden.
Here in these beautiful "gardens" Gallery Expo 88, and invites everyone, from October 1.
The gallery address EXPO-88:
Metro Kitai-Gorod
Street Zabelina, Building 1

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I tried to download pictures from Masha from the site but they are a very tricky downloaded malenkimi.Eto of different years.

Here's a great movie about how Masha paints.
 

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France - country painting.

Pompezdno sounds, but it's true it is. It was evident, just when you exit the train.
At you rolls light, vibrating and penetrates into everything: people, houses,
trees. Paris seems to town, devoid of density (especially in summer and spring)
not entirely built on solid ground, but rather floating in the air.
It's an incredible observation strongly overturned all my ideas about
air in the painting and convinced that the Impressionists did not come up with.
I think that it is impossible to remain unaffected by the environment in which you live
more than half of life.
The need for sensitivity to the world. Pronikaemost.

Work on the "infinite" space, perhaps, is the result of this ... peripheral vision, looking at the world as the window is continuously and slowly moving train, when the picture unfolds before you, and you do not "outside", as part of nee.Moi kompozitsii which appeared in Moscow (not afraid of the word, in the last century), completely different : closed and fenced off from the outside world a protective layer of air.
I am convinced that there is not experience changes a person, but ... the man himself menyaetsa in life, changing his cell, and more. In my case, changed the eye. This bolshoi gift: a feeling that you can live two lives.
All my painting represents the Thea.
Sometimes I think I'll just go along on some familiar space and from time to time I go out into new landscapes.
Search the roads in the landscape - my main job.
I do not know until Kako degree in the series there is "integrity" of space, but the consciousness that I travel helps me move forward. I think that the bulk of my work can be considered expressive abstraction (thing blurry, but for lack of a better term) and I feel very keenly the danger is characteristic of this scenic areas. Losing sight of freshness, a lack of continuous updating of the plastic language, ease of reception ... We have to fight tooth and nail "...
However, to wander in his own subconscious thing is dangerous, you can get lost or walk around. That's why a trip and a close study of the world saves and infuses new vigor.
Normandy - a fantastic country, power and expression that is hard to describe. In Haute Normandie variety of natural forms such as rocks, field
 and water collide in a clear graphic lines, the first vzlyad impossible for
 combination. Not for nothing Monet and Marriage endlessly painted the same incredible
 location: Fecamps, Etretat
I work from life in this crazy color and relative tsvetoteni peyzazhe just poured a huge stock of new forces. My second line required
began working in the garden "Jardin des Moutiers". Garden - by itself Artificial space - but each element or a small fragment of different fantastic freedom. In nekotoryh gardens of the world, I regularly lose my mind and just then, and something similar happened.

I was there "stuck" - the benefit that a huge garden, thanks to a special Norman humidity flowers and plants acquire unexpected tropical proportions - almost "lost".

Sketches and drawings made in the "Jardin des Moutiers" became a necessary foundation for my current search.

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Masha - unusually handsome man, and, in my opinion, a true artist.
I am very happy for her.
It is a pity that the graphics sheets (post 3, photo 2 and 10) in such a small image. This is a very beautiful series: ink, brush (and, of course, parking inspiration)) on the printed music sheets of her husband (he was - the composer).
It's unfortunate that on the opening day will not be the most Masha with her radiant smile .

(this picture with her beauty, her daughter Liana is placed in one reporting the June Fair in Paris)

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Сообщение от Glasha

Masha - unusually handsome and charming man, and, in my opinion, a true artist.
I am very happy for her.

Masha talantische, it's very positive person but now a bit sad because of the fact that he could not attend his vystavke.Konechno hurt and everyone is waiting for her nam.My in Moskve.Ya not see Masha, 20 years old, me and my family very much wanted to see her poskoree.Ya written many times about the amazing history that has happened to nami.Ya found in a report Nana Roginsky his cousin .. Many thanks to Liana for this report and the forum Artinvestment .. It is a fantastic story.
I opublikayu again text Liana.

Masha big "family". We assume that Vrubel her cousin
 Grandpa: he could write as if set off in abstraction (but take
 a fragment of his "Lilacs" and increase it by 100 times and you behold an abstraction!)
 Nicolas de Stael with his technique of "high points" of, say, uncle, and Elena
 Vieira da Silva, but thawed, warmed, down from its marble
 pedestal, his aunt. "Family" is parted on different continents, and cousins
 second cousins and sisters and other water on the pudding is in America, but +
 Make a list of relatives of Masha Schmidt deserves
 attention to themselves, this is a very good painting that has always been rare. "

Liana Roginskaya specifically for AI

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We were on a wonderful dinner in their Paris apartment, where everything suggests that the artist lived there: from the smell of paints and solvents, as part of it is allotted for the workshop (the one that featured in the video), finishing with wonderfully painted table from which I could not take his eyes, though dishes, too, everything was very nice and tasty

But seriously - the work itself, its relationship to them, convinced me reiterate that this is a serious artist.

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Yesterday, the opening solo exhibition Masha Schmidt.
Machine work makes a very strong vpechatlenie.Oni full expression and emotion .. They need to look alive. No, even the good picture, would not be able to convey the powerful emotional charge that comes from her paintings.
This painting inspired, she could not leave the viewer ravnodushnym.Obyazatelno, if possible, go to this exhibition.
I tried to capture the exposure .. but to pass all the colors were very difficult. (Dark turned out, and in some places where it was impossible to photograph without flash .. a bit highlighted).
The exhibition was opened Galya Bystritskaya and art gallery director, "Expo-88"-Jelena Yakovleva.Galya, clever and krasavitsa.Kak she managed everything so elegantly organize lack thereof Masha .. just wonder.

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Masha Schmidt - a rare visitor in our country. For 20 years she lived in France, and, indeed, unique among the project participants' big French tour "live there permanently (unlike other artists who regularly move" back and forth "). However, Masha, too, is not sitting still. As a theatrical and kinohudozhnika it runs between Paris and Geneva and in the same capacity falls sometimes in Moscow.

So it was in 2005 when at Mosfilm filmed episodes of the Russian-Swiss film "The Interpreter," starring Baluyev, Safonov and Garmash. Or in 2006 when the Moscow Theatre Olympics came to Geneva Theatre "Barack" with the play "The Girl and Death". But here as painting, only a few works by Masha appeared in last year's Art Arena, personal same exhibition in Moscow were, I can safely say, in the last century.

France - country painting. 20 years ago, Mary Schmidt came off the train at the Paris train station, and, as she herself writes, "... straight from the platform at me freewheeling, light, vibrant and penetrating into everything: people, houses, trees ..." This is the first impression and the idea that the Impressionists, it appears, did not invent, was the quintessence, the foundation of her creativity. Masha believes that she is incredibly lucky: the fate provided an opportunity to develop in different but interpenetrating cultures - Russian and French. "This dual experience certainly shaped my painting." Experience is really impressive. After graduating in Moscow Stroganov School, Mary continued her education in Paris - at the Art Academy, and Sorbonne University, Saint-Denis.

His painting the artist has positioned as "expressive abstraction." Create a global fabric of a beautiful world that surrounds you from all directions and constantly changing elements of nature or the sun - it would seem the dream of generations of artists. But Masha makes his endless webs of fragments of landscapes still is her peculiar techniques and skills. Her work is recognizable - that you can see for yourself.

Papers presented at the exhibition - it is Norman landscapes painted on paper is very broad oil pastels. And only on location - in the thick woods, among the fields and cliffs. Normandy - a fantastic country, the power and the expression of which is difficult to describe - the artist shared with us, and said that in this series, written just before the show, it set itself the task of Norman to experience nature and the most "honest" to translate the emotion of color and stain.

Only at first see only a colorful assembly of spirals, lines, lines .... especially if we consider now very close. Gradually moving away from her, begins to experience a state close to how induced binoculars at the object - the apparent chaos on the canvas will magically begin to focus together and deep image. And now there are green meadows with paved paths between them, and somewhere in the distance - the forest ... or suddenly "appears" the facade of a Gothic cathedral, brightly lit by sunlight, burst through the foliage ... and you even see how overflows it glow under a breeze!

Herself Masha Schmidt believes that the picture painted in Normandy were a qualitatively new stage: "Channel scenery for me - very important splash as my other works are much less specific, they are almost absent in the plot, perhaps, only elements of reality. And these - very "documentary" in my understanding of the word. You can not imagine how I was afraid to miss the light time of the day, and while drawing, I was literally tossed with shock - such a powerful wave rolls back from the cliffs, sea and land ...


Mary Hayes