Artist Irina Kovalevskaya

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Irina Kovalevskaya: a modern Russian artist with a non-trivial biography, she came to the territory of art from the sphere of academic science. She has been drawing and painting since childhood. Living in Bulgaria for three years, she took lessons in academic drawing from professors of Bulgarian Academy of Arts in Sofia. At the age of 16, the first personal exhibition of graphic and painting works took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. Having made a career in the field of science, she devoted a lot of time to education in painting, honing her skills and working on her own artistic language. She attended classes of teachers at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov and master classes of Italian painters. Today she is a member of All-Russian Union of Artists. Irina's artworks are characterized by an exceptional sense of rhythm, dynamic composition, and impulsive and emotionally ‘loaded’ colour. Thematically, the artist's work covers several genres, including landscape and still life. The main focus in her recent works is the experiment with the rhythm and texture of abstract canvases. Irina’s figurative painting is multi-layered, based on the imagery of her artistic language. Her painting arises the associations with phenomena derived from literature, cinema, art history and other fields related to culture. Irina is fond of tennis, so her work often refers to the themes of sports, fighting, competition. The proximity to the realistic school is seen in the precise technique and thorough choice of colour, at the same time the artist is working on her metaphorical language, moving towards neo-Impressionism. The female optics in Irina's statement is relevant to her latest works which are extremely bold and bright. Since 2011 she has been a member of the XOLST creative association, since the beginning of 2022 she has been a member of the IMMI ART gallery project. During this time she has taken part in more than 30 art exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

Irina Irina Kovalevskaya

Irina's paintings have been exhibited at prestigious venues, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), the 7th and 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Central House of Artists (Moscow), ART&Antique Moscow Fair, the Hermitage-Kazan Center (Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan), the Museum of Yerevan History, House-Museum of M. Saryan (Yerevan, Armenia), Central Exhibition Hall of Uzbekistan Academy of Arts (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bern, galleries “En Beauregard” Montreux, “Peyer Fine Art” Zurich, 10th Salon of Contemporary art Montreux MAG (Switzerland), gallery "Maison d'Art" in Monaco, as well as in other galleries and art spaces in Moscow, Italy, Spain. The work “Khaki Earth. The Path to Ararat" was sold for 30 000 US dollars at a charity auction held by Sotheby's, and all the proceeds were transferred to support the House-Museum of Martiros Saryan. Irina’s painting and graphic works are in private collections in Russia and abroad.

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