Unusual still lifes of Elena Gurvich at her new exhibition in Moscow

The Moscow Exhibition Hall of the Partnership of Painters, located on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, this week an exhibition began, at which artist Elena Gurvich presented her paintings. Most of the works that make up the exhibition are still life genres.

However, Gurvich’s works can hardly be called completely consistent with the literal meaning of the word “still life”. The objects depicted in the artist’s paintings are not the usual fixation of objects, they are dynamic images transformed by the artist’s talent.

Vases, jugs and bottles have faceted shapes, with their bends they seem to create unexpected volumes in the space of the canvas, but at the same time, the usual shapes of objects do not collapse, and their spatial changes help the artist convey her ideas to the audience. Images of real objects for the audience are understandable, but even the most sophisticated of them are difficult to solve the mystery of the movement appearing on the canvas. Elena’s works are made using silver tones, imbued with heat and light.

Elena Gurevich has a special attitude to the world of painting, since she was familiar with him from birth. Her father, the painter Joseph Gurvich, became the main conductor of Elena in this genre of art. Elena Gurvich received her professional art education at Moscow University named after Stroganov, but she still considers her father, a well-known artist who worked in both painting and graphics, to be her main teacher.

Elena is in a constant search for new plastic forms and compositions, turning familiar images into an interweaving of images visible in the movement of light and colors.

You can see the works of Elena Gurvich at the exhibition until October 13th.

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