Tatyana Kuzmina-Chugunova "Custom format"

From October 18 to 30 in the halls of the Coordination Center for PAX “Lavrushinsky 15” will be presented the project of the artist Tatyana Kuzmina-Chugunova - “Non-standard format”.

“Custom format” is a series of portraits of our contemporaries painted on 40x120 paintings. It is as if the artist specifically creates a certain obstacle for himself, choosing non-standard proportions, so that through overcoming, through breaking patterns, he will open up new possibilities for artistic expression and penetration into character. These elongated paintings are well mounted in a single brilliant series, representing the world of emotions and destinies. They are united only by time and the master, who brought together so many different heroines.

They already met once in real life - her models under their portraits, and there are wonderful shots that captured this unique event at the exhibition "Custom format", which premiered last year. The premiere is indeed a suitable definition for the vernissage. This series is a real theater of images, it emphasizes gestures, postures, and psychologism. So in the light of the ramp, the actor holds a pause to create tension, and at this moment of truth, a genuine openness and nakedness of the soul is seen.

They are beautiful, romantic, sophisticated, vulnerable and very feminine. Each portrait is certainly interesting in itself, but when these paintings are combined in an exhibition, when they create a single series, they go beyond the framework of the “non-standard format” and traditions of hanging and traditional representations in general. There is one truly unique feature of this series. The format of the presented paintings dictates some fragmentation of the images, and they are all written at different times, have a different mood and their own color palette. But the fact is that in the trellis hanging in any order they are harmonious with each other, as if they were created happily to coexist together. The fate of the meeting already has an interesting story. Most of the works are the property of the author. But many are kept in private collections, and exhibitions are the only opportunity not only to see their viewers, but also to bring them together. As well as the depicted heroines.

(Author: Sofia Zagryazhskaya)

About the artist:

Tatyana Kuzmina-Chugunova member of the Creative Union of Russian Artists
Works are in private collections in Russia and Europe
Graduated from the Kazan Art College. Feshin
Faculty of Painting

• He paints portraits from nature
• Performs custom-made interior painting.
• Extensive experience in printing.
• Owns the technique of old masters.
• Performs copies to order, improvising
• Gives lessons of academic drawing, painting composition
• Runs an art studio

She studied at the Kazan Art College. Feshin, picturesque
Faculty - 1983-87.

Exhibitions

Youth avant-garde exhibition - Kazan, 1987 ;

Mars Gallery - Moscow, 1987 ;

Exhibition dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Moscow - Moscow, VDNH, 2008

Bagira Gallery - Moscow, 2009 ;

Work with salons: in the hotel "Savoy" and "Yar" - Moscow;

Exhibition "Style" - gallery "A3", Moscow, 2014 ;

Russian Art Week - 15th International Exhibition-Contest of Contemporary Art. 1, 2, 3 places in the nomination "Portrait", 1 place in the nomination "Genre", Moscow, 2014 ;

Russian Art Week - 16th International Exhibition-Contest of Contemporary Art. 3rd place in the nomination "portrait", Moscow, 2014 ;

Personal exhibition of Portrait, exhibition hall TSHR, Moscow, 2015.

Russian Art Week - 17th International Exhibition-Contest of Contemporary Art. 1 places in the nomination “portrait” and “landscape”, Moscow, 2015 ;

Personal exhibition in the municipal exhibition hall of Krasnogorsk, 2015

“The Image of a Woman” - a group exhibition at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow - 2015.

"Week of Contemporary Art in Italy" - Rome, July 2015. 1, 2, 3 places in the nomination "Genre" (classic).

Exhibition "Masters and Students" - Central House of Journalists, Moscow, October, 2015.

ARTPORTRAIT CLUB INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, an international exhibition and competition of portraiture - 1-2 places in the nomination "MODERN FORMS" - January 16-24, 2016 Moscow, Central House of Artists.

Awakening Tao - a joint project with Dmitry Plotkin, Moscow, gallery A3, February 11-21, 2016.

“The Origins and Future of Russia” - Tatyana Kuzmina-Chugunova and Dmitry Plotkin, municipal exhibition hall in Krasnogorsk, 2016.

“International art project“ IMAGE AND TIME. PAST AND PRESENT ”- Chekhov Cultural Center, Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Creative Community“ TETRA-ART ”, 2017

Solo exhibition "Pilgrim", Creative Workshop of the Ryabichevs, 2017

Personal exhibition “POETS OF RUSSIA”, Museum of the Silver Age ”, 2018

Repeated participation in the exhibition projects of the Flora Gallery, 2018