In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Monday, March 6, at 18:00, an exhibition of representatives of the international movement of contemplative painting Anastasia Boronina and Markus Erich Mayer “Symmetry of feelings” will open. The exhibition will be held as part of the New Wanderers project and will be available for two weeks.
2023 will be a landmark year for the international exhibition community of contemplative artists (“KONTEMPLATIVISTEN”), which celebrates the twenty-year milestone of its activity. The exhibition in the art space mArs, which continues the series of events dedicated to the anniversary of the movement, will feature paintings and drawings by Anastasia Boronina and the founder of the movement, Markus Erich Mayer.
Contemplativists represent a new movement of the 21st century, but they want to be involved with the painters of the past, who, regardless of their likes, dislikes, nationalities, etc., created a special country – Art. Hence the search for the identity or proximity of the gesture of the picture to the works already existing in the history of art.
Practiced by eight active contemplativists, their painting focuses primarily on the Experience of Hearing concretely spoken, thought and felt word order.
Thus, the semantic form is aimed more at the gesture of word formation than at the optical semantic representation. At the same time, the external motive that is perceived in the exhibited paintings should not confuse anyone. It requires everyone to develop a new habit of vision (contemplation).
The modern spectator is invited not only to compare his rational ideas with what he has already seen somewhere, but also to cognize the world of the Unpronounceable with his inner eyes (organs of touch of heart hearing) again and again. The exhibition in the mArs art space offers to try both the already known and the new way of Contemplation.
Anastasia Boronina was born in St. Petersburg in 1968. 1987 entered the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University, English department. From 1991 to 1997 lived in Switzerland, where she studied the methodical approach of color and form connection at the art school of Gerard Wagner, as well as at the art school ARTEUM under the guidance of the master of fine arts at Cornell University (USA) Peter Stebbig. From 2002 to 2005 studied at the School of Stage Movement in Hamburg (Germany), where she met the artists Markus Erich Mayer and Sebastian Gollub and contemplative painting. Member of the creative union of artists. Member of the Association of Art Critics of Russia. President of the International Foundation ARTEUM, Switzerland.
Works are in private collections in Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, Germany.
Markus Erich Mayer was born in Bensberg in 1962. In 1976–1982 received a professional education in painting and sculpture in the workshop of Marie Crochet (1921-2013) in the spirit of the Old Masters. On July 5, 2003, in Hamburg, together with the Swiss gallery owner Pirmin Braig, he founded the international community of artists of the 21st century KONTEMPLATIVISTEN. Since then, about fifty group and solo exhibitions have been held in various exhibition spaces, including museums.
Markus Erich Mayer is a member of the Creative Union of Russian Artists (IFA).
Also on display will be a work by Sebastian Gollub, a German painter and founder of the idea of contemplative painting.
Entrance to the exhibition is free.
Source: Rosbalt
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