Personal exhibition of Irina Voronina "Living breath of quilt". A thread. The cloth. Matter

On September 24, 2019, the Artefice Gallery will open a personal exhibition of Irina Voronina’s works, made in the art-quilt style.

The revival of the art of patchwork sewing arose in the wake of the "ethnic" fashion of the 70s of the last century. Art-quilt is a new direction of art textile. From the traditional patchwork quilt, only the main principle remained - the combination of many diverse parts into a single artistic whole. Today, quiltists are experimenting with all forms, techniques, and materials. As a result, the strength of the effect on the viewer of the art quilt’s works differs significantly from the ornamental-geometric compositions of the patchwork, mainly focused on the formal-decorative perception.

The exhibition presents a wide range of works by Irina Voronina, performed in this direction of decorative and applied art. The viewer will have the opportunity to see how the author’s vision and technique changes over time. To achieve an artistic image, the artist uses, in addition to color, texture and texture of fabrics, melting of synthetic materials, embroidery, dyeing and printing on fabrics.

The amazing art world of Irina Voronina is on the verge of irrational, with a fantasy world. It is an expression of personal impressions and thoughts of the author, which merge into a single rhythm of internal poetry. Combining the originality of various shreds, masterfully working with color and composition, Irina Voronina embodies artistic images in textiles that reflect her personal worldview. The beauty of nature, architecture, man forms a single whole, telling the viewer his own story.

“Irina Voronina is an original artist who has a rare imaginative vision in difficult to image material. Remaining decorative, its textile compositions are meaningful in the highest sense, and their content is special, expressed precisely through such material, in this way of processing. It’s customary to say “patriotic”, but I’ll say this is “matriatic” art, which displays a feminine, maternal, patronizing gift in us, - M. D. Izotova (art critic, artist).

Irina Voronina was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1981-1987 studied at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repin at the Faculty of Architecture. Since the 90s he has been working on textile panels using the art quilt technique.
Since 2014 she has been teaching art-quilt.
Since 2007 - Member of the Union of Artists of Russia
2008-2011 - Member of the Creative Association "Blue Pomegranate"
Since 2012 - Member of the European Creative Association Art Quilt Fusion

Personal exhibitions

2014, 2018 - Kurochka Ryaba International Festival of Artistic Textiles; Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2014, 2018 - International Sewing Festival “Soul of Russia”; Suzdal, Russia.
2013, 2018 - Quilt Fest International Patchwork Festival; Moscow, Russia.
2008, 2017 - International Quilt Festival; Birmingham, UK.
2016 - International Quilt Festival; Groningen Netherlands.
2015 - Cultural Center “Ilguciems”; Riga, Latvia.
2014 - Gallery "Art Holding Tatyana Nikitina"; Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2013 - Gallery "Neskuchny Sad"; Moscow, Russia.
2013 - International Festival of European Patchwork Meeting; San Marie aux Minnes, France.
2012 - Museum-Estate of V. Nabokov "Rozhdestveno"; Gatchina, Russia.
1997 - Museum of F. Dostoevsky; Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Awards

2014 - Grand Prix of the Festival “Patchwork Patterns of Russia-2014”; Suzdal, Russia.
2012 - Grand Prix of the contest "Irida"; Exhibition-competition of women artists "Spring Salon - 2012"; Moscow, Russia.
2011 - Award from the book publishing house "Kaleidoscope"; International Quilt Festival European Patchwork Meeting; San Marie aux Minnes, France.
2007 - Grand Prix of the Russian Quilt Exhibit contest; Isles Craig, Canada.
2005 - Grand Prix of the competition of the V All-Russian festival "Patchwork mosaic of Russia 2005"; Vladimir, Russia.
2002 - Second prize for a set of works at the II All-Russian festival "Patchwork style"; Saint-Petersburg, Russia.