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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

AND PAINTINGS

 "NOSTALY FOR THE COLOUR" 2018

Gallery Gamla Stan, Eskilstuna, Sweden

This exhibition features a collection of 12 oil paintings, which main inspiration is colour. Painted with photographic precision, the depicted situations had never happened in real. In the era of image, internet and social nets, I reflected about the construction of the collective memory. I portrayed people whom I do not know, finding their photos in the Internet and manipulating the contexts as I wanted.

"SUSMIDAM" (A SMILE) 2017

First show in Vengara Public School
gallery Morgados da Pedricosa, Aveiro
gallery Environmental Arts, Norwich 

Festival Guimarães NOC NOC 2018, local N 23

Developed with the support of cultural organization TravelKannur. This project features 24 portraits of people from Vengara, a traditional community village of Kerala. Each portrait, 70x90 cm, coal on recycled paper, is accompanied by a legend telling the life story of the model.

THE GOD´S OWN DANCE 2015-2016

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Brushman´s Gallery, Kannur, India

Muthappan Festival, Dubai

The project was made possible by the generous support of  cultural organization TravelKannur and its friendly team

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I attended ceremonies of ancient ritual Theyyam, which  happens at night on special days. The specific community members by dancing and singing transform themselves into living gods and bless the believers. It was a honour to assist these happenings. I was impressed with power and colours and it resulted as a series of 24 aquarelle paintings, 60x80 each.

"AVEIRO NA PRIMAVERA" 2016

Gallery Disha, Aveiro

It is really not easy to for an artist to paint a city where she lives. All places are too familiar, all roads are walked, nothing seems original. It needs a special state of mood to make an exercise of seeing with "fresh eyes". Spring is the perfect time to look for new compositions and to get moved by colour. Aveiro in spring is the subject of the series of 15 oil paintings. The canvaces depict the city of Aveiro, so called "Venice of Portugal" in a positive and colourful manner. All paintings are sold to private collections.

"EXPOSITIE"  2016

RosArta Gallry, Rottredam

A series of 15 surrealistic paintings present casual metaphors in a subjective way. The portraits of young women are there in order to provide a connection between the imagined and the experienced, between the ideal and routine, beween the self and the outside. The paintings transmit a positive feeling of dreaming state of mind.

INSPIRED BY SWEDEN 2011-2012

Alla Gallery, Stockholm
Volga gallery, Stockholm
RosArta gallery, Rotterdam

Inspired by Sweden is one of my favourite collections of paintings, it includes about 35 canvases. These canvases are all improvised artworks, I did not make any preparatory sketches, but created abstract backgrounds first, dropping  colourful stains on canvas. Studying the results I could see some shapes and imagine the narratives which were surprises for me. The subjects mostly portray travelling, city, lights and twilight - the most impressive daytime in Sweden. This collection was a success - all paintings are sold.

PROJECT "REFLECTIONS" 2012

The production was supported by theatre Estudio Performas
Exhibition happened in the CC of Gafanha da Nazaré, Aveiro

Although these paintings look like abstract art, these are 100% realistic images. These are photo-realistic paintings (oil on canvas) of reflections which I captured at  Aveiro Lagoon. The colourful patterns are actually just reflections of buildings, objects and people passing by the side of the channel. The "Reflections" is in some way a reflection about the local identity. The specifics of water in this lagoon permits perfect and stable reflections which inspired my paintings. The collection counts with 16 big oil painted canvases.

AZUL (BLUE) 2014

Disha Gallery, Aveiro

The series of 12 canvases represent the specifics of Aveiro region - famous Portuguese blue tile painting Azulejo. The theme of tiles and porcelain is present in each paining. I used a technique of illusory painting, when the objects look 3-dimencional and separated from the background. Steady formal central approach makes the tiles and plates look like real, it seems you can touch the edge. I enjoyed a lot making an effect of accidental shine of the glaser which happens when you glance at a good quality Azulejo.

EXPOSITIE, 2013

RosArta Gallery, Rotterdam

This project was made by request of RosArta Gallery. I had a contract with this gallery for several years already, when the curator invited me to produce a solo exhibition. As subject, I was challenged to develop some contemporary social issues in a metaphorical way. That was a new possibility for me, because before that I only used to paint imaginary dream-like compositions. Now I had to "put hands" on reality. All of the paintings which make part of this series (15 oil painted canvases) relate to and reflect on such issues as sexuality, race, gender, east and west, social integration, internet generation, teenage problematic, social isolation and power... Although expressing those contradictory subjects, I tried to do it in the most elegant way, looking for references in classical art and literature. The project had a success and a great attention at the inauguration.

COLOURS OF AROUCA, 2012

Gallery of  the Municipal Library of Arouca

Arouca is a small village in the mountain area, it grew around the ancient convent. The places are of special charm, because people live there in a proximity with nature. Although the main occupation is agriculture, the landscape is intact. With great pleasure I spent some time there painting on the open air. Wondering around with my stand and oils, I painted sunrise and sunset, mountains and valley. All 12 resulting paintings were sold during the exhibition or shortly after.

MOUNTIAIN VIEWS, 2012-2013

Disha gallery, Aveiro
ArtPul art show, Koln
RosArta gallery, Rotterdam

Mountains give me a great sensation of presence. There is always a lot of green, water and air. Mountains are the rare place where you can see the air. It is the best place to study the colour perspective: the plans are well separated and pronounced in different shades, melting in blue. The series of 12 oil paintings, most of them created at the place itself, are made in the desire to remember the powerful views, the excitement of cold stream waters and the mystery of cloud formation.

AVEIRO, VENICE OF PORTUGAL, 2013

Disha gallery, Aveiro

Although the icon boats of Aveiro, Moliceiro, are in focus, the series of 14 oil paintings is not really about the local attraction - it is, like the most part of my artworks, about colour. This time I explored the tones of night. Deep blue, rich green, faded pink, smooth grey, emotional orange - Aveiro night has it all. I was absorbed by summer nights of Potuguese Venice, the lights and shadows are in play. All  13 oil paintings were sold during the exhibition.

WINTER SUN 2011-2012

Alla Gallery, Stockholm
Volga gallery, Stockholm

This production is small for what I usually paint, it counts with only 9 oil paintings, not more than 40x50 cm each one. Nevertheless it is very special. I remember getting the idea while executing several commissioned paintings - copies of classical Dutch miniatures: winter scenes and skating. I loved to do the copy work, learning the tiny details and dealing with small houses and people and with their busyness; and suddenly I got a strange sensation that someone was watching me from inside the painting. I stayed in Sweden at that time, it was winter, the sun was rarely around and never up. The collection "winter sun" came naturally - I humanized the sun and gave it a frozen aspect, depicting it as slow and lazy observer.

"EXTRIMITIES" 2009

Mansarda gallery, Saint-Petersburg

This was a special project, first,because all 20 paintings which make part of this series, were painted at the site. And second,  because I was aiming to depict the dramatic sense of the border land, which represents for me the concentration of geological and anthropological history. I travelled by the peninsula of Crimea, by the interior and by the coast, I climbed the mountains to paint burned forests and megalith rocks, I painted ancient forts and bays. The use of line and colour was inspired by artworks of Nocolai Roerich, which I studied in a museum in the same year.

LANDSCAPE AND LIGHT STUDY 2009

Mansarda Gallery, Saint-Petersburg

During the artistic residence at Crimea I had an opportunity to make a visual research focusing on the quality of light and colour in the different hours of the day. The same exercises I made during  artistic residencies in Karelia and in Orel (2004) and in Pskov (2007). A series of oil sketches on cardboard are made to capture the specificity of atmosphere and to transmit the immediate impression. Some of the sketches, later, were used to produce studio artworks.

HISTORICAL LANDS, 2007

Mansarda Gallery, Saint-Petersburg

The series of 25 oil paintings on canvas and oil sketches on cardboard were made during the academic artistic residency near Russian city Pskov. These are historical lands in the sense that in the IX century Russia began here, it was also a residence place of the famous Russian poet A. S. Pushkin. The landscapes, which remember the legendary battles, cannot be separated by the romantic interpretations which the poet endowed to them. When painting these series, my idea was to find some traces of legend, transmitting mythology through dense tones and plastic shapes.

"VERSION I" 2003-2005

Gorky Museum, Kazan
RosArta Gallery, Rotterdam

This was my first individual exhibition. Still an undergraduate student of Kazan Fine Art College, I painted these works secretly from my Professors, only inviting them to the inauguration at the Gorky Museum. At that time I was very fond of Van Gogh´s art and his influence is visible. The series consists of 20 big oil paintings, all of them were painted at the site, in front of the model. These years were complicated, in cultural sense, for Kazan: one corrupted minister ordered to demolish all XIX century wooden houses - amazing monuments of local architecture. The houses were closed and prepared to destruction. Me and my colleagues painters and photographers, as an act of protest, would enter these houses and take out pieces of furniture, objects and decoration to save the memory. All the depicted stillifes are composed using these rescued objects.

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