Exhibition of paintings by Marina Kabysh "Themes with Variations"

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of works by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts Marina Aleksandrovna Kabysh “Themes with Variations”. The exhibition will feature about 30 paintings from different years.

The master’s canvases are diverse in genre range and stylistic techniques, but at the same time they are thought out and balanced in color. Portraits and still lifes, inspired landscapes intrigue the viewer with the dynamics of multi-figure compositions. In his works, the artist talks about what he saw with the help of a free, sweeping brushstroke and a sophisticated color palette, rich in subtle nuances.

In an amazing way, the author’s works are collected in cycles, which gives them an extension in time. These are her Crimean landscapes, written based on impressions from trips to Gurzuf, and picturesque series created while traveling in Italy, France, Greece, Great Britain, China, Thailand, and Cuba. Particularly characteristic and expressive are the paintings “Tomorrow at Sea” (2022-2024) and “Road to the Sea” (2021-2024), where M. A. Kabysh subtly captures the ironic, but at the same time paradoxical reality.

The multi-part panel “The Life of Grass” (2014), created for a children’s health center, is a vivid example of the artist’s search and experiments with form, plane and color. The main theme was plants, their growth, flowering and wilting. Thanks to the chosen close-up and crushing by raster color separation, the viewer’s gaze embraces the individual elements of the composition as if from the outside, from the outside. This allows you to feel the living, plastic structure of plants.

Emotionally, the master is close to the everyday life and unique features of Central Russian landscapes. This could be a randomly noticed motif on the pond - “Summer. The Other Shore" (2018) or the multi-figure canvas "Collecting Fruits" (2023-2024). The sophistication of color relationships creates a vibrating surface of the paintings. Modern life, where there is a play of rhythms and dynamics of color spots, fills her canvases “Salsa” (2021) and “Shopping Center. City" (2020), marked by impulsive "eventfulness".

In the artist’s easel works, the world of a sincere and caring person opens up, living in art according to his own creative laws, who has mastered the profession with true skill, having learned to leave the main thing on the canvas, cutting off the unnecessary. The exhibition of Marina Kabysh in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts is a creative journey with new subjects and new discoveries that the painter is preparing for the viewer.

The text is based on an article by Radoslawa Konieczny.

Marina Kabysh was born in 1969. Graduated from the workshop of monumental painting of E. N. Maksimov Moscow State Art Institute named after. V. I. Surikova (1995). Trained in her specialty at the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists (1996), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2019), Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2023). She took part in the reconstruction of the paintings of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the development of a project for the interior decoration and painting of the altar of the Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Royal Martyrs in London. Participant of international and all-Russian exhibitions since 1991, including the largest exhibition projects of the Moscow Union of Artists and the Union of Artists of Russia. The artist’s paintings are in the collections of the State Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, in the Sviyazhsk Island Museum-Reserve, in the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve, in private collections in Russia and abroad.