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EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

Nataliya Velykanova
(Toulouse, France)
intomyself
Graphics
April 16 - May 4, 2012

The poster

Press release

Contemporary art gallery "OkNo"
presents the project

Nataliya Velykanova
intomyself
Graphics

April 16 - May 4, 2012

Nataliya Velykanova is an artist working with various aspects of the internal undercover life of a person. In the project "intomyself" she reflects "on a moral condition, imaginations, dreams, disappointments of a person living in information chaos, illusions and superficiality of the society".

The artist considers the existence as dialogue between the person and the world. The dialogic principle becomes the starting point for artistic conception of N. Velikanova. According to it, the person finds his own essence, absorbing common to all mankind, comparing yourself to other people.

Complexity and multidimensionality of dialogue carried out by heroes is found out in system of spatio-plastic constructions of the graphic sheets. "Air" of a white sheet is stratified on set of measurements. The image of the person is often overlapped by elements of letter or digital texts, ornamental styles or archaic characters, which sometimes absorb it, transforming in a shadow. Through this technique, it becomes obvious: the search for senses and approval of the value of life are given to a man huge stress of spiritual and intellectual forces.

Graphic works of the project "intomyself" are executed in stylisticsof graffiti. Expressive means of the art, "living exclusively in the city environment, with its own "handwriting"of a randomness and the spontaneity, created by many and different people, with its strange inscriptions, signs, stratifications and its unique rhythm organizing all this chaos and giving to it a certain integrity", most precisely reflect, in opinion of the author, idea of the project.

Nataliya Velykanova (1982, Odessa). Graduated from Kostandi Art School in Odessa (1999), Odessa Institute of Architecture (2005), then Higher State School of Architecture in Toulouse, France (2008). Lives and works in Toulouse. Since 2009 actively engaged in creative activity, is a member of several art groups (L'impossible manufacture, sisters & ice-cream), beginning artists as director of ARTEST Association.

Curator - Svetlana Shlyapnikova

Vernisage of the exhibition will be on April 16, 2012 at 18:30.
Admission by invitation only.

The exibition will be opened for public
from April 17 to May 4, 2012.

Working time:
Monday - Friday 15:00-19:00,
Saturday 13:00-17:00

Admission free.

The gallery address: 79A, Sonya Krivaya St.,
(entrance via theatre studio "Maneken"),
municipal transport stop: South Ural State University

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Art Director -- Svetlana Shlyapnikova
Gallery Director -- Dmitry Latukhin