"Murashkina." Nina Murashkina

Art Gallery "Manufactory" invites you to the exhibition of the artist and performer Nina Murashkina with the same name "Murashkina" on November 16 at 17:00. The artist lives and works in Ukraine and Spain. Art lovers will have an exceptional opportunity to get acquainted with her work in Kiev.

The main theme of the painter’s research is the psychology of sexuality, a personal drama elevated to cult.

She is bold and fearless, sexy and sees the world in a sensual context.

She likes to talk about what others are silent about, which is better to keep secret. About dreams that do not expect to be realized. About the "tasty" details of the subconscious and the extremes permitted in public relations.

As for the artist’s creative manner, this is a synthetic style of a purely feminine perception of the world with a deep foundation of classical art education. This is a parallel with Ukrainian naive creativity and kitsch, filled with quotes from masterpieces of art history.

"Murashkina" - "A Thousand and One Women"…

In this series of paintings, graphic works and silhouettes created in 2008-2019, you can see side by side a variety of female typologies: young, mature, shy, courageous, mysterious, powerful, lustful, insatiable… But there are women behind this variety the opportunity to recognize Nina or the character whom she calls "Murashkina."

As a multi-faceted and long-lasting self-portrait, this diversity of self-awareness could become an egocentric phenomenon. However, the author was not limited to his appearance and peculiarity. She violates this narcissistic border, forgets about herself in order to achieve a deeper, archetypal form of a woman.

This can be seen in the silhouettes: shadows without specific features, like the platonic ideas of a moving female universe. In these works of art, we can recognize the brushstroke and stroke of the author, her long and elegant hands that directly carve expressive and precise outlines. It becomes obvious to those who have the opportunity to see the author and her works of art in one space: they are one.

Murashkina creates vivid large-format paintings, installations, including ready-made objects, knitwear, embroidery, drawings related to her own erotic stories and representations. Turning to the themes of eroticism and body, experience and desires, the artist immerses them in a theatrical environment. Her works may seem, at first glance, playful and whimsical, but in the end, encourage viewers to think seriously about the complexity and depth of ideas. Love or die. But, of course, believe in this magic of the author’s erotic world of Nina Murashkina.

Nina Murashkina - Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Author, participant and curator of numerous personal and collective creative projects in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain, China, Ukraine and Russia.