Exhibition "Gzhel:
scales of inspiration"

October 25 at 12-00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts will open the exhibition "Gzhel: scales of inspiration." The author of the exhibition is Irina Korshunova, a teacher at the State Gzhel Art and Industry Institute.

Irina Korshunova was born in the city of Vyksa, Gorky Region. In 1987 she graduated from the Gzhel Silicate-Ceramic College, Department of Art Ceramics. In 2004, she graduated with honors from Moscow State University of Culture and Arts and began teaching at the Gzhel State Institute of Art and Industry. Since 2005, Irina Korshunova is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the International Association of Fine Arts AI AP UNESCO.

Irina Korshunova works in the porcelain technique, underglaze painting with cobalt and in the silk painting technique (cold batik). The author prefers an ornamental, clear-cut floral painting based on the plastic of a painted brushstroke and contrasting the sonorous saturated spot with the graphic image. Bouquets and garlands, wreaths and twigs are grouped according to the shape of vessels and decorative dishes, chintz patterns are spread on the surface of tea utensils. Free floral improvisations are complemented by a clear rhythm of all kinds of nets, borders, ornamental medallions. The contrast of cobalt and white background corresponds to the general state of the awakening of nature and the affirmation of life, which sounds in the artist’s work as the main motive.

In addition to traditional porcelain, the exhibition presents a collection of dresses “Fragrant color”. Natural silk, hand-painted (cold batik), braid. The bodice and straps are decorated with porcelain details with underglaze cobalt painting.

The works of Irina Korshunova are presented in museums in Russia: in the Republican Museum of Fine Arts (Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El), the Museum Association Gzhel, the Museum of Decorative and Applied Creativity and Folk Art Crafts (Gzhel State Art and Industry Institute, Gzhel), Batashev-Shepelevs Manor and Industrial Complex (Museum of the History of the Plant, Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod Region), Municipal Institution Krivyakino Manor, GU Federal Museum of Professional Education (Podolsk), etc., as well as in private to Collections.

The exhibition will run until November 22.

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