In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Monday, June 5, at 18:00, the opening of a personal exhibition of the Ekaterinburg artist Katerina Nezhurina “Fairy Tales” will take place. The exhibition, organized as part of the New Wanderers project, will last for two weeks.
The main pillar of the project for Ekaterina Nezhurina was fairy tales, ancient rituals, religions and, in general, human life from antiquity to the present day. The artist explored fairy tales as an inexhaustible source of knowledge, allegory, ambiguity and connection with ancestors. Fairy tales have been with us since time immemorial, but modern people are most often familiar with fairy tales in their adapted versions, from which all the subtext was deleted, all the incomprehensible things that ancient people laid in them. For example, religious meanings were excluded from many fairy tales during the time of the fight against God, and meanwhile, unadapted fairy tales are a completely unpredictable and wonderful world.
A series of works “Fairy Tales”, made by Nezhurina in the author’s technique (digital art in combination with plasticine and various fixers), is a kind of metaphor, a reference to an ancient man, his religions, rituals and unadapted fairy tales, the main theme of which is a connection with ancestors and otherworldly , the underworld.
The key image of the works of Katerina Nezhurina is a child, he becomes here a “guide” to the surreal fairy-tale world. He is the one who believes in a miracle and is able to merge with the images of fabulous creatures, becoming like them. The protagonist lives on the border of two worlds, real and magical. His “childhood” symbolizes a certain primordial nature of the world, a rare inner integrity and incomprehensibility. He travels with his favorite characters through a magical space, experiencing their adventures with them. Chicken Ryaba, Pig Golden Bristle, mouse Norushka and other characters good-naturedly help the main character, but as soon as the fairy tale ends, they are just food!
Katerina Nezhurina invites the St. Petersburg audience to plunge into the most interesting world of “fairy tales”, to appreciate the depth of Russian fairy tales, touch their hidden essence and rethink the stereotypes associated with this genre of folklore.
Katerina Nezhurina was born in Yekaterinburg. She graduated from the Professional Pedagogical College with a degree in hairdresser-fashion designer. She worked at local television as a hair stylist, at the same time she received her education at the Ural Academy of Architecture and Art (UGAHA) at the Faculty of Fashion Design, and participated in fashion weeks. In 2017, after reading the book by W.S. Maugham “Moon and penny”, began to draw. Since 2018, Katerina has held four exhibitions in Yekaterinburg and one in St. Petersburg (at the Art-Muse Gallery), took part in an exhibition on Museum Night 2019 at the Museum of History and Archeology of the Urals. Katerina is also the author of the Waiting Room social project aimed at supporting guest families for orphans.
The organizer of the project is an independent St. Petersburg curator Marina Gurevich.
Entrance to the exhibition is free.
Source: Rosbalt
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