"Pod kluch" magazine, February 2010

Thanks Alexander Makarenko

The january 2010 I managed to take part in one of the most outstanding european furnitur exhibitions Imm Cologne. My project of a lamp design was represented in the exposition of design school «ArtFuture» in the section [D³] DESIGN TALENTS. The lamp "Leaf" is a contemporary author's views to the nature. It combines two worlds: urban city style world and the magnificent world of nature and flora. The white plastic is in interaction with slimline and dynamic floral ornament and simple form of the lamp which recalls the outline of the tropical plant. "Leaf" is like an ancient light making its way to through the new symbolic space.

The next appearence of the "Leaf" lamp was Stockholm Furniture Fair

After graduate work presentation, the reviewer – art critic, curator, leader research assistant of Elaginoostrovsky Palace-Museum of Russian Decorative and Applied Arts, Elena Afanasievna Vlasova, invited me as a participant of The International Exhibition of Ceramics and Glass in landscape VI edition with «Algorithms of Jugendstil». The largest exhibition of ceramics and glass in Saint Petersburg is held outdoors near Palace Elagin. Ceramic artworks, sculptures, installations are traditionally presented at the lawn in front of the Palace.

This year I graduated with bachelor degree from Saint-Petersburg State University’s Faculty of Phylology e Arts, department «Decorative and applied arts». My specialization is ceramics, so I created a ceramic lamp (height 1 m 80 cm) as a degree work for Palace of Matilda Kshesinskaya – now there’s State Museum of Political History of Russia (Kuybysheva Street 2-4). My project called «Algorithms of Jugendstil», the contemporary art work I created have being guided by impressions while research German Jugendstil. My degree instructor was a remarkable artist, ceramist and our lecturer – Grigory Vladimirovich Molchanov. This work hardly had been done without his aid and wisdom! Thank you! The lamp itself I made on the basis of a ceramic factory «Pallada».

Illusration for "UNI" magazine, 2009

My illusration for book "Semiosphere: in the labyrinth of signs and forms" , 2009

One project changes the another. The same happened after «Home exhibition». I met outstanding girls from neighbor studio – organizers of the art union «Ouick Pics» (quick pictures). The most well-known action of this artists-group – is online-drawing. In coffee-room «Books and Coffee» get together about 20 artists, poets, musician and audience. One by one artists sit down at the table, they have 5 minutes for creating a few pictures. The process of the drawing shoots a video and this is shown on the screen. Creation of art works can be accompanied by poets or musicians. I was succeeded to take a part in this action.The situation when your drawing is observes by one hundred of people was interesting, but at first a little bit unused. Together with young artists there were more experienced and older representatives, for example painter Vladimir Zagorov, graphic artist Vasily Bertels. 

On the photo me (photographer: Alice Florizelle)