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Lyucya Voronova. Garden of Eden.
The exhibition of the Moscow artist Lyucya Voronova, who turns in her work to the poetics of naive art, is an invitation to the vast world of a little man living in the outlandish Garden of Eden.
Lyusya Voronova is distinguished by her original, always recognizable style and rightfully occupies a special place in the modern art environment. The works of this author are full of trepidation and sincerity of an open statement, permeated with an unusual expressiveness of simplicity. The artist's manner is far from stylization - it naturally grows out of decorative and applied art and is close to its nature. As if fluttering out of the painting on trays and scarves colored with paradise flowers, the painting of Lyucya Voronova develops according to its own internal laws: consonant with the intonation of the folk microcosm and retaining its symbolism, it is filled with new meanings.
The artist's palette is symbolic: red is life, blue is the sky, black is eternity, and ocher is gold. The author's works are distinguished by pure color, clear contours and impeccable rhythm. The heroes of Lyucya Voronova's paintings are women, flowers, birds, as if immersed in an endless field of life. Each work of the artist is a short story about a person, a visual story filled with a sense of joy.
“I always start with a person,” the artist says about his work. - My first gesture is a person, his condition, meaning. And in everyone I am looking for a Human. People are very different: it is always space, mystery, surprise. You open the curtain and you find behind it a huge world of a little man, and in it - flowers, and birds, and fruits of the earth, and children. People with their destinies are in my soul, I empathize with them and try to warm them: I settle them in the Garden of Eden, where strange flowers bloom and no one cries. "
About the author:
Lyusya Voronova was born in 1953 in Moscow. Graduated from the art department of the Moscow Institute of Technology (1978). In 1987 and 1988. became a laureate of the "Best Work of the Year" award, established by the Moscow Union of Artists. In 2013, Lyusya Voronova was awarded the medal of the Order of St. Anne and the bronze medal of the Russian Academy of Arts "Worthy". Since 2013 he has been an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
The author's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Kolodzey Art Foundation (New Jersey, USA) and in other public and private collections. The exhibition at the Erarta Museum presents works from the private collection of Alexander Voronin.
From the site of the Erarta Museum.