A never-before-seen live performance will unfold at PANDA, as Marina Koldobskaya transforms the bar counter into a canvas, painting it live during the exhibition opening.
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Herbarium und Bestiarium von Marina Koldobskaya
How can one describe Marina Koldobskaya’s works?
At first glance, they seem simple — a sheet densely filled but without fear of empty spaces, a palette limited to 2-3 colors, with precision and conciseness in the imagery. This last quality is immediately apparent to the eye.
Then you think that this semi-painting, semi-graphic art is akin to petroglyphs, drolleries (marginal drawings), and calligraphy. Just like the deer in petroglyphs, the depicted bull is simultaneously a living animal, a meat carcass, a symbol, and a sacrifice.
In the library, a cat caught a mouse and looks at the scribe, as if to say, ‘I’ll have my meal now, and you sit there tied to your work’—and the scribe, to stave off sleep, sketches a cat with a mouse in its teeth in the margins of the manuscript. A broad, calligraphically precise brushstroke.
The rhythms of ornamental printed fabrics, the animal style, the ‘tormenting predators’ come to mind. The anatomy of Marina’s paintings and sheets is akin to the anatomy of a logo mark, where everything unnecessary is excluded, everything protruding is generalized, and the image becomes as perfect as a stone polished by the sea.
Then you forget all this nonsense and just look carefully.
Languages: Russian, English
Admission: Free
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Marina Koldobskaya
