Two Floating Cities: An Exhibition
Margarita Krivitsky
Opening Celebration: 1/05/2022 2pm to 4pm
Closing : 22/05/2022 4pm
Gallery hours 11am to 4pm Thursday - Sun
Two Floating Cities will explore the literal and conceptual journey of ten artists through Saint Petersburg and Venice. In July 2019, artist and teacher Margarita Krivitsky took the group on a journey through the two cities that fundamentally shaped her artistic career. Artists began their journey in the Eastern Europe at the Fine Art Academy of Saint Petersburg, where Krivitsky studied as a teenager the great masters at the Hermitage. In St Petersburg, the artists immersed in and painted a multilayered and fragmented world. Artworks reflect a city of juxtapositions, of the vestiges of communism, the revived reverence for the monarchy, and the quiet inner turmoil of the citizens.
Echoing Krivitsky’s emigration from the Soviet Union after glasnost, the artists travelled to Venice. Again, painting and drawing en plein air, artists absorbed a floating world of bright sunlight on coloured buildings, narrow winding canals, and reflections on water that create the illusion of space. Artworks capture the harmony between the lightness of the atmosphere, the drama of Venetian Renaissance art, and the Venetian citizens who are free and self-expressed.
The exhibition will feature 2D artworks in oil, watercolour, pastel and drawing. The body of 2D artworks will be those prepared in St Petersburg and Venice, and later refined. It will also have 3D works that will mirror the configuration of public spaces in both cities. The exhibition will be curated by London based artist, costume and set designer Simon Bejer.
Margarita Krivitsky
Opening Celebration: 1/05/2022 2pm to 4pm
Closing : 22/05/2022 4pm
Gallery hours 11am to 4pm Thursday - Sun
Two Floating Cities will explore the literal and conceptual journey of ten artists through Saint Petersburg and Venice. In July 2019, artist and teacher Margarita Krivitsky took the group on a journey through the two cities that fundamentally shaped her artistic career. Artists began their journey in the Eastern Europe at the Fine Art Academy of Saint Petersburg, where Krivitsky studied as a teenager the great masters at the Hermitage. In St Petersburg, the artists immersed in and painted a multilayered and fragmented world. Artworks reflect a city of juxtapositions, of the vestiges of communism, the revived reverence for the monarchy, and the quiet inner turmoil of the citizens.
Echoing Krivitsky’s emigration from the Soviet Union after glasnost, the artists travelled to Venice. Again, painting and drawing en plein air, artists absorbed a floating world of bright sunlight on coloured buildings, narrow winding canals, and reflections on water that create the illusion of space. Artworks capture the harmony between the lightness of the atmosphere, the drama of Venetian Renaissance art, and the Venetian citizens who are free and self-expressed.
The exhibition will feature 2D artworks in oil, watercolour, pastel and drawing. The body of 2D artworks will be those prepared in St Petersburg and Venice, and later refined. It will also have 3D works that will mirror the configuration of public spaces in both cities. The exhibition will be curated by London based artist, costume and set designer Simon Bejer.
Artist: Artist: Margarita Krivitsky Title: Serenissima Medium: BRT clay Size: H 58cm W 35cm
Image taken by the Artist
Image taken by the Artist
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