Exhibition of Margarita Khabarova "Experiments in Enamel" Automatic translate

June 23, 2015 in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts at the address: st. Prechistenka, 21 opens an exhibition of works by the Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, Honored Art Worker of Buryatia, a member of the correspondent of the Russian Academy of Arts Margarita Khabarova “Experiments in Enamel”.

The exposition included about 70 works performed by the author in the technique of hot enamel over the past decade.

M. Khabarova was born in Novosibirsk in 1941. In 1968 she graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repina (Leningrad) majoring in “History and Theory of Fine Arts”. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, Union of Artists of the Russian Federation, TSHR.

She took part in the systematization and description of the collection of applied art of the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum-Reserve and the Kirillo-Belozersky Architectural Museum-Reserve for restoration in the State Central Scientific and Practical Art Museum named after Academician I.E. Grabar, in the description of the fund of the artist El Lissitzky for the State Tretyakov Gallery, etc.

For more than 50 years, the creative and organizational activities of M. Khabarova have been connected with the regions of Russia. After graduation, she was a member of regional and national exhibitions, participated in the formation of collections of art galleries and art museums in Novosibirsk, Chita, Kholmsk, Tiksi, Severobaikalsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the creation of regional branches and works closely with them in the Russian Federation Academy of Arts since 1987. He currently heads the department "for work with the regions of Russia."

M. Khabarova is the author of more than 100 publications on fine art, monographs, albums published in the publishing houses “Artist of the RSFSR”, “Soviet Artist”, dedicated to the folk art of Chukotka, Yakutia, the Far East, artists of Primorye, Kamchatka, Amur, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov- on-don and others

The exposition is one of the most interesting pages in the development of modern Russian easel enamel.

The oldest technique, the history of which has more than three millennia, has attracted masters of different eras. Enamels of Ancient Egypt, Greece, Northern Italy, India, Persia, China, Byzantium, medieval Europe, Ancient Russia, the modern era - a brilliant constellation of styles, schools, masters. Traditionally, this very laborious and expensive equipment was used in jewelry, decoration of household items, church items. Often, going beyond its applied purpose, the role of decorating an object, enamel acquired the significance of an independent work of art.

Masters of the 20th century, inheriting their predecessors, offered their themes, their artistic solutions. In the 70s-80s of the XX century, after a certain period of decline, a new wave of interest of Russian artists to the rich possibilities of art enamel and the rise of easel enamel art begins. Russian masters got the opportunity to take part in international creative seminars, first in Hungary and the Baltic states, and then in other countries of Western Europe. In the second half of the 20th century, several centers of enamel art appeared in our country - in Rostov Veliky, Yaroslavl, in the south of Russia, associated with the names of famous artists M. Selishchev, G. Karikh, N. Vdovkin.

Margarita Khabarova turned to enamel in the late 1990s. Many years of creative communication with enamel masters, acquaintance “in practice” with this complex and fascinating technique, vivid personal impressions associated with numerous working trips around our country — admiration for the power of Russian nature, its immense expanses, the cosmism of its spaces, foreign travels — it’s hard to say what exactly made this material to choose an artist. But only in enamel - “the art of fire” did the author manage to embody the versatility and variability of life, the movement of time and thought, and give the numerous meanings embodied in her works the significance of timeless value and a precious piece of art. It was hot enamel, the effect of fire, introducing an element of unpredictability into the artist’s plan, that attracted the master - poet and philosopher, who perceives the world as an ever-changing stream of phenomena.

The exposition included works from the easel series “White Mountains” (“Chukotka”, “Caucasus”), “Earth and Space”, “Bach Music at All Times”, “Spheres”, “Images of Florence” and many others. For each of them, the author finds his own technique, color, spatial rhythms and forms. The works of the series "The Seasons", "Flowers of the South", "Shore and Sea" were originally solved. Especially interesting are landscape cycles. The drawing of a concrete landscape in the interpretation of the artist acquires the significance of a symbol, giving the work the character of a broad philosophical generalization. The experiments in the enamel of Margarita Khabarova are a constant search, an experiment in a wide range of topics, genres and plastic solutions: from classical figurativeness to abstraction, from landscape to multi-figure composition. Cloisonne enamel, enamel painting is widely used by her in the most diverse and unexpected combinations. With a brush and palette knife, spraying paint, the artist achieves a variety of textures, their combinations and new shades of figurative reading. In the works of M. Khabarova, a theoretician, art historians, and a magnificent master, “Cosmos sounds” and “roll call of eras” is heard.

The exhibition is open until July 12, 2015.