"Still life alive or dead?"

"Still life alive or dead?" - the next exhibition from the East Meets West Gallery project entitled "Living and Inanimate Nature", which is held from September 15 to October 15, 2020 at the ARTPLAY Design Center.

Is still life alive today, and in what thematic variants, historical and contemporary transformations is it presented today in the works of Russian artists?

“Having not yet acquired a genre status, still life (within rather blurred boundaries) existed in antiquity, medieval Gothic, and the European Renaissance. He found his genre definitions at the beginning of the 17th century in the English version “quiet life” and in the Dutch version “dead nature”…

Speaking about the group of artists involved in today’s project, it is obvious that they have gone through an innovative school, a training ground of the twentieth century… They for the most part took the side of the intellectual development of the world of things, the synthesis of anatomical research of the subject and wide fantasy extrapolations - while maintaining and deepening the unique personal component. Some went further. They decomposed the still life into geometric elements, proposed a new spatial reality ”(N. Ivanov“ Praise to Still Life ”).

The exhibition is attended by: Ashot Kirakosyan, Alexey Lantsev, Anatoly Purlik, Viktor Korneev, Vladimir Chibisov, Dmitry Ikonnikov, Elena Belyakova, Ekaterina Kudryavtseva, Konstantin Inal-Ipa, Olga Osnach.

The curator of the exhibition is Tatiana Paleeva.

The exhibition is open at the ARTPLAY Design Center from September 15 to October 15, 2020.

Daily from 12:00 to 20:00. Admission is free.