On May 21, DiDi Gallery opened personal exhibition of painting and sculpture Yelena Figurina, emerging from the circle of expressionist artists of the second half of the 1970s, who not by chance chose for himself the name "Chronicle," testifying to the intention to seriously accomplish a painting feat, to take time with painting.
The exhibited works form a single private collection, which has largely determined the character of the exhibition. At the DiDi exhibition space, works are presented that are united by their creation dates between 1991 and 2001 and by the private perspective of the collector who assembled them.
The paintings and world of sculptures by Elena Figurina are populated by people who share some kind of explicit spiritual and physical kinship with one another, a connection that passes through the artist herself. Figurina's family of people is a metaphorical collective self-portrait of Petersburg Expressionism, one that always knows what necessary asceticism is and always reveres painting.
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