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Meanwhile in New York city contemporary Russian art is gaining popularity,
as shows grand opening of exhibition of Moscow artist Yana Lande,
who has already been called “New Matisse of figural painting”.
Commented event by Elena Mesheryakova.
Young girl with a crown behind is crowned by New York city tonight.
First American show of Moscow artist was attended not only by moneybags
with indistinct taste, but also by known art experts.
A year ago her canvases were noted and acquired by experts from Guggenheim Museum
as a bright example of Russian art of the beginning of Third Millennium.
Since then Yana also feels passion for the world capital of contemporary art.
Yana Lande: “I’m in love with this city, it’s a great love of mine”.
It’s not hard to fall in love with paintings by 30year-old artist, graduate of Saint-Petersburg School of Arts
her paintings are attractive, ultimate and deceptively simple.
In her childhood, schoolgirl from Odessa was drawing on wallpaper,
nowadays marketable artist feels no lack of canvases.
Lande’s brush fills ordinary items with oil and special sense.
At different times different objects became the subjects of portraying: bottles and chairs, teacups and chandeliers.
Chair stands for support, teacup is the sign of coziness, chandelier embodies light,
but they all remain in the past. The search for positive images had led to the crown.
Yana Lande: “I was looking for a positive sign: and to me crown symbolizes entity,
the maximum unity of all positive qualities, it is the symbol of contact with God
as well as caring for people around, for the ones you love and cannot neglect.”.
Series of made-up tsar headdresses was inspired by The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic
Dictionary illustrations and by Shakespeare’s sonnets as well.
“Such immediacy of perception and fussiness of evocation” – melt critics,
and Yana only smiles in reply;
her power over New York city admirers is evident even without a crown – symbol of this power.
Elena Mesheryakova, Alexander Babaev, RTVI