We present the project of the exposition of the works of the legendary representative of St. Petersburg neo-academism Bella Matveeva called "Wave Genetics", prepared by our gallery for the international contemporary art fair COSMOSCOW 2022.
Tarasiuk Ivan
Was born in Sverdlovsk (modern name – Yekaterinburg) in 1957. Graduated from Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Saint-Petersburg in 1988. In 2011 took part in decorating interiors of the Russian president’s residence in Kaliningrad.
Works in Saint-Petersburg as a sculptor, graphic designer, painter, artist of circus decorations and applied arts.
Ivan Tarasyuk is an artist with a world name, the participant of the huge number of exhibitions in Russia and abroad. His recognizable creativity integrates traditions of the Russian and European vanguard (Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Natalya Goncharova), a national toy and – irony of the present times. Characters of its works are friendly and carefree – working people, musicians, clowns, dancers and acrobats. Heroes act as though they are eternally busy – they sing, applaud to the show, play musical instruments, working, perform at arena and at last, jumping into a daily street crush. But any of their activity is equally festive – the work "Seamstresses" is also elegant and full of paints, as well as the dance of circus actors in "Actors and the audience". Life turns into a peculiar decorative formula in which in the best traditions of vanguard all useless details are cut leaving the only pure enthusiasm of life.
