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ANASTASIA
KUZNETSOVA-RUF
Gallery I
No one does it like this series
In different works of this cycle, I focus on the words of its title in different ways. "No one does it like this" is a form of public opinion that doing...
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...something the way NOBODY does is in some ways silly, shameful, or indecent. It is regarded as if it were picking your nose or lending money without wanting it back.
These ideas are certainly represented with the help of metaphors: after all, no one will wrap the currant bush in a Brioni trench coat for the winter even if it is their favorite currant bush, or cut down an entire apple tree and even put the trunk on Viennese chairs to make it more convenient to pick a couple of bags of apples from them. Just like no one would do things like... Anyone can finish this sentence with something they can relate to. Or you might not continue at all and enjoy beautiful pictures without filling your head with allegories. A lot of people don't.
And there are also works that reflect the idea that "NO ONE DOES THIS." Everyone says what they want but no one DOES for various reasons: they don't get to the point of doing this, it's not profitable, it's not prestigious, or it is simply not common to DO it in the Country.
And in the end, no one does. Here you can see an idea about the extraordinary behavior of depicted or implied characters inside the paintings and at the same time about the author ambitiously and conceitedly hinting that no one does it like her. Paraphrasing Pogossky's thought that "The soldier who does not dream of becoming a general is bad but even worse is the one who thinks too much about what will happen to him," I am confident that if an artist is not an outstanding one then he is bad, but he is even worse if he only thinks how to become one. Is it my case? I think only time will show. And I have an eternity for this.
From the HOLIDAY to the HOLIDAY series
To embark on a discussion about this series, let's commence with a poignant snippet from a famous poem by Dmitry Prigov...
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...Here is a great holiday festive
I'm sitting by the window,
I look to the sky higher
And I can see a festive salute there ...
"If you imagine the structure of everyday life of an ordinary person," says Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf, "so they are looped in the scheme as a rule "from holiday to holiday". That is, from one interesting and bright event — through a series of gray and similar one another day — until the next, well-deserved holiday, fun. "
"Salute" — is the central work of this project, reflecting two opposites in a series of days, months, and years of human life. It's holidays and everyday life. In this work, Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf used her skillful composition technique, creating a sense of the vastness of the space that fills most of the canvas. The picture is deserted, in the lower part only of the canvas, in the darkness of the night, on the front line a closed window view of a window sill with binoculars and an apple stub on a plate. In the distance, on the line of the horizon, there are flashes of fireworks — there is a holiday, through the haze lights the city, finely depicted below. The artist uses the color sparingly, however, the tonal gradation of the greyish-bluish allows her to give a lot of nuances and meanings to the plot. Alas, the holiday is far from the outside observer of life - the owner of the window sill.
Note that Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf is busy not only with the solution of purely plastic tasks, but in front of her audience she acts partly as a mentor. So, in the project "Do not miss" (2013) she shows how building grandiose plans and airlocks, a person can miss life itself, and at the exhibition "Growth Point" (2015), she proves the need for a constant evolution of personality. It seems that now the artist speaks of a modern man who is most afraid of wallowing in everyday life, everyday works, boredom, and despair which was described so symbolically by Dmitry Prigov: "Only you will wash the dishes / Look, there is a new / What freedom is there / until old age be alive. "
Weekdays in the paintings of Kuznetsova-Ruf (Pressure-I, Head-II, Head-III, Incoming Call, Headless Rider, Rudder, Octopus, Apples) is brighter than her works with images of holidays (Salute, Old New Year, Tsar-fish, Over the edge, Spy, On the Jamon, Eye). Girls — heroines of everyday pictures are exposed, their bodies are full of energy, life and beauty. The bodies of the girls are voluminous, their mean colors in the subtlest nuances of the shades of brown — it resists the whiteness of the surrounding space. The feeling of a holiday and explosion of emotions is created by bright splashes of paint: crimson, yellow, and green, bursting from under the hands of girls under pressure (Pressure-I, II, III).
"As a child, a holiday is a happy day, someone invented and organized and fun can consist simply of trifles" (Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf). A lovely girl looks in a telescope or all disappeared behind a plate with some yummy. In the works of Kuznetsova-Ruf, children's characters are not just touching, but always contrast the inner child's freedom with the self-control of an adult. "A holiday for an adult is an incentive to live and move on. For some, this is a happy event that awaits you ahead, but for others, it can be a real joy: tasty food, love, communication with the child, etc. ", the author of the project notes. "Holidays" Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf or black and white, or in their images, she contrasts various shades of light dark or black, brownish, gray. Everyday life in A. Kuznetsova-Ruf's works are filled with movement, energy, and pleasure of living. Her holidays are intimate, interfamily. In them, the peace and tenderness of loved ones, loving people.
Irina Filatova
Out of series
Here are individual paintings, created without a unifying concept, that were exhibited in various projects.