BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. retrospective exhibition of artworks by Inna Mednikova. June 4 -July 3

The Museum of Moscow and Quarta Gallery would like to invite you to the the retrospective exhibition of paintings and graphics by Inna Mednikova dedicated to the artist’s 90^th birthday BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.

The exhibition will be held at the exhibition halls of the Northern wing of the Horse Yard of The Russian country-estate Kuzminki museum from June 4-th till July 3-d, 2016.

The Russian country-estate museum is situated in the territory of the “Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki” estate complex which is over 300 years old. The exhibition of the artworks by the amazing Moscow artist Inna Mednikova, a beautiful park, historic buildings, a chance to ride in a horse-drawn summer carriage, a pond with a boating station – all this will become a part of a remarkable summer pastime in one of the oldest Moscow estates.

Inna Mednikova is a representative of the classic Moscow art school, a graduate of Surikov’s Art Institute, a student of Sergey Gerasimov, who after a while transferred to the scenic painting department. Her stage sets, which include colorful sketches and delicate airy theatrical interiors, are filled with mystery, passion and invisible spirit of the stage. It is also her sublime range of colors and a genuine impressionistic feel which later penetrated her landscapes, still lifes and portraits, becoming the artist’s hallmark for many years to come. As Mednikova extended and expanded her comfort zones, her art techniques grew lighter and lighter, and finally in her mature years she changed to aquarelle as if trying to capture the very evanescence of the surrounding world, its elusive reality, though she expressed it with utmost authenticity, never departing from the genuinely realistic manner.

In 2016 the artist celebrates her 90^th anniversary. Under her belt she has 60 years of serving art, dozens of exhibitions worldwide and a rich collection of splendid artworks which never fail to enchant the viewer with their amazing freshness and up-to-dateness, despite the fact that many of them belong to the irretrievably lost epoch having left behind the unmatched legacy weaved from myths and heroes.

When looking at these transparent pink-and-blue country landscapes, still lifes wrapped in gentle flecks of sunlight, faces with that inwardly look emerging from the faraway world of the 50s and 60s of the last century, you can’t help thinking that the painter offers us some exquisite shatters of the lost world, which we, the hostages of the new digital era, perceive as the lost paradise filled with light and breath of pure beingness. The most astonishing aspect about Mednikova’s artworks is their incredible naturalness and their naked simplicity. There is only everlasting poetry of life showing through most ordinary things. It is this romanticized reality that fascinates the contemporary viewer with its recognizable images of sagging village roofs, gently rocking boats and smoking factory chimneys.

Inna Mednikova herself expressed this idea quite gracefully in one of her interviews:“I have always tried to see the beauty in the prose, in everyday things. I even made still lifes of old castaway objects conceiving beauty through them…»

Three halls on the exhibition will present various artworks from 1940s up to 1990s showing earle theatre designs and costumes, village and city landscapes, genre scene and still lifes.

This exhibition allows the viewer to experience a continuous connection to time in the works of the artist, behind which 60 years of active creative life and is designed for the general public without age restrictions.

Address ofthe exhibition:

* The Russian country-estate Kuzminki museum. Horse Yard. North wing

* 6, Topolevaya alleyFrom metro station "Ryazansky prospect" – city bus or route taxi (marshrutka) № 29 till the final stop "Kuzminsky park" http://www.museum.ru/M2758

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