Exhibition of paintings by Anna Birshtein "MOVEMENT - FREEDOM"

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MGVZ "New Manezh" February 22-27, 2011

Anna Birshtein is a famous Moscow artist. Her paintings are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Russian Art in Kiev, the National Museum "Women in Art" in Washington. Her biographers always note nepotism: her parents are wonderful artists Max Birshtein and Nina Vatolina, and her daughter is the famous fashion designer Masha Tsigal. Anna Birshtein has a bright expressive pictorial language. The image "in front of the viewer" is made up of almost physically perceptible energetic movements of the artist's hand.

At the same time, from exhibition to exhibition, the author changes themes and methods of exhibiting paintings. At the exhibition in the New Manege, Anna Birshtein talks about herself and freedom. Suddenly, the center of this painting exhibition is a huge photograph - an artist in motion. Movement is both Anna Birshtein's mode of action, her life strategy, and the main property of her work.

At this exhibition, the author for the first time makes an amazing attempt to stop movement - to show the individual elements that make up it, on large canvases - a bicycle, a grandmother's vase, an airplane trace in the sky, a dress, a glass, a Roman column, a flower.

But the movement does not stop: the presence of the author is perceptible in each of the works (the landscape in the picture with the bicycle has already moved from its place, the clothes are still dancing, the glass suggests …), and together they create a self-portrait of the artist, which is present simultaneously in the interior and landscape, in memories and the future.

The movement of the brush, the movement of objects and her own movement create the inseparable fabric of Anna Birshtein's existence. The energy of movement allows the artist to feel free, and this freedom is transferred directly and without loss to the canvas.

In motion, everything heavy, complex and unpleasant is "smeared", the world is rethought and transformed. The positive charge conveyed by the author is that MOVEMENT IS FREEDOM. On one of the walls of the exhibition hall there is a multi-meter polyptych. Two genres coexist here: still lifes and portraits - flowers and people. The first ones overcome their "attachment" to a place by their multicolor, flowing forms, and the complexity of their inner life, they are always free. The second - in fun, sadness, forgetfulness, concentration - want freedom.

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