Anna Zeltsman. ON THE HALFWAY. Graphics / pastel, collage, outline

Man is always on the way. Often he does not remember how the path began, and does not know where it will end. Art is a path whose goal we choose ourselves. My goal is to go beyond the usual forms and associations, to get away from recognition. The exhibition presents several series of sketches made in the Borey gallery, and collages - abstract compositions based on these sketches. Sketches in this case embody a kind of intermediate state between nature and abstraction. This is the reverse process of completing a blot. Not the identification of familiar images in the pointless, but the transformation of a figurative image into an abstract composition.

Anna Zeltsman

Anna Zeltsman was born in 1983 in St. Petersburg. From 1989 to 1999 she studied at the art studio in the Palace of Creativity of the Young (in Anichkov Palace). In 2007 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. E. Repina, Faculty of Architecture. Member of the St. Petersburg Creative Union of Artists (IFA) since 2017.

Participated in group exhibitions:

2009 - two exhibitions in the framework of the project "Shop of artifacts" (painting)
2009 - exhibition of works by young architects of St. Petersburg in the Union of Architects (photo)
November 2009 - Small Hall of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege". The final exhibition of the fifth contest of young artists "Landmarks" (painting)
March 2011 - exhibition in the framework of the art project "Picturesque Drive" (painting)
May 2011 - the exhibition "Cosmos-Art" as part of the "Night of Museums" (painting)
May 2012 - February 2014 - the exhibition “Palace Muse” in the Palace of Creativity of the Young (painting)
2013 - an exhibition of works by young architects of St. Petersburg in the Union of Architects (photo).
April 29 - May 4, 2014 - exhibition "Cube in the Spring" (painting, graphics)
August 2016 - exhibition in the framework of the project of modern animal art “Zooart” in the New Exhibition Hall (Nevsky Art Center 179)
September 2016 - the exhibition "Summer in the big city" in the New Exhibition Hall (Art Center Nevsky 179)
December 26, 2017 - January 20, 2018 - the exhibition "Works of the Year" in the exhibition hall of the IFA Creative Union of Artists (painting)
June 14, 2018 - June 28, 2018 - exhibition "Made in Japan" in the exhibition hall of the IFA Creative Union of Artists (painting)
December 26, 2018 - to the present day - the exhibition "Works of the Year" in the exhibition hall of the IFA Creative Union of Artists (painting)

Personal exhibitions:

December 5, 2015 - January 23, 2016 - “The Tenth Dimension” (painting, installation) in the Ligovskaya library
February 2 - March 30, 2018 - “A sense of the landscape” (painting) in the Children’s Library. Korolenko
June 18 - July 4, 2018 - “From all sides” (graphics) at the Center for Art and Music of the Central Clinical Hospital named after V.V. Mayakovsky