“Memories” / Olesya Dzhurayeva
Exhibition runs from August 15 to September 10, 2023.
Vernissage on August 15, 2023, at 7:00 PM.
Savchenko Gallery
ul. Garbary 8/9, 80-827
Gdańsk, Poland
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun: 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Poster to download
«My linocuts are my personal visual diary. In a no-rush manner and alone with myself, I concentrate on the world around to later have my works reflect the emotions generated by just one experienced moment. I always lacked patience and words to write or speak. It is much easier and more meaningful to “speak” with visual images: art is my medium to share my feelings and my vision.
What vision do I mean? I look closely at seemingly ordinary things. Previously, those were still-lives, various everyday life stories I used to see at home, in my studio or at my friends’. Later, I turned my preference towards urban landscapes and people’s living in cities. I also looked closely at various textures of nature: from the skies looking through the tree crowns to the floating and fancy outlines of the clouds…»
«Black ink, white paper. These are the elemental starting points for the work of many printmakers – simple factual statements that in many ways sum up the medium. As to which black ink, there is a choice among many that vary in blackness, opacity and usability. As to which white paper, again there is a choice among many that offer various possibilities of weight, surface texture and absorbency as well as the degree of whiteness and reflectivity. Choices of ink and paper are made by each individual artist, based on experience and availability, and bearing in mind such characteristics as these. Beyond these technical choices there are the detailed procedures required by a wide range of techniques. So, from a technical point of view, what may have seemed to be a simple matter of black and white becomes on further consideration rather more complicated. This is the world of the artist printmaker, one that to many outsiders may seem to be as mysterious as the alchemist’s laboratory.» Richard Noyce, PhD(hc), Writer and Artist. Wales, March 2021.
Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist
Born in 1982 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. In 1989 moved to Ukraine.
2006 – Graduated from Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design named after Mykhailo Boychuk, Faculty of Graphic Design.
2008 – Member of the National Union of Artist of Ukraine.
2023 – Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, United Kingdom.
Works as a professional graphic artist since 2002. Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Ukraine and all around the world. She is an active member of the international printmaking community, participant and laureate of many printmaking competitions. Since 2018 she works as a book illustrator. Her printmaking work uses mainly techniques of relief printing.
Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
At the opening, guests will be served delicious by Craft Coctails Gin Bar.
WELCOME!
FREE ADMISSION
Organizer: Savchenko Gallery (Savchenko Foundation)
Project “Art Leads to Gdańsk,” Cofinansed by the City of Gdańsk
Electronic catalog of the exhibition.
Works on the exhibition.
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