The exhibition presents the
creative oeuvre of Natella Toidze - the Moscow artist the representative of
well-known art dynasty. The permanent participant of Moscow, Russian and abroad
exhibitions, the Member of the Russian Academy of art, Toidze is the active
participant of contemporary artistic life. Her works are presented in State
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Vologda District Museum
and Mordovia Museum named after Erzya, in the collection of Russian Academy of
Art and the other state and private collections in Russia and foreign
countries. The exhibition that includes about 70 works gives the viewer an
opportunity to trace the basic stages of the artist's creative path - from the
early paintings that are expressive in manner to the landscapes and still lives
of the 1980's and the works of two last decades. The content of these works is
the specific "culture of dacha" in the places nearby Moscow. The reason of
inimitableness of plastic decision of her canvases is the author's ability to
find the special foreshortening of visual apprehension of the presented motif
and so to reveal the hidden sides of natural and artificial world. This world
is carefully embodied in its simple recognizable features seems to be
transfigured with the poetical intonations that are awoken by the rhythmical
organization of the space of canvas, and by the format of the latter. The
author seems to suggest the viewer the character and way of visual development
of the shadowy trail in forest or magnificent composition that is created from
the bright flowers. Thanks to such approach the realistic tradition that is the
basis of Toidze's searches receive actuality. And precisely this approach allows
the author to combine organically in her images the emotional comprehension of
world and its intellectual comprehension. |
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