Snowy silence. Winter landscape in photographs by Anna Kudryavtseva
Date:
13.12.2024 19:00
Place:
Art and design gallery «A&A Interior»
Address:
RPCR Aqua Residence, Porto Montenegro
Free entry, RSVP office@aainterior.me
19:00 - Opening of the exhibition. Evening ceremony with cocktail and music.
Art & Design gallery A&A Interior invites you to the opening of the exhibition:
“Snowy silence. Winter landscape in photographs by Anna Kudryavtseva”.
The exhibition Snowy Silence was conceived as a reminder of the colors and moods of the world covered with snow. On the black-and-white photos, which were taken in the Pechora region, Russia, the artist Anna Kudryavtseva, already known to us through her East Asian-style paintings (“Dance of Brush and Ink. Oriental painting by Anna Kudryavtseva” 26.09 – 29.10.2024 A&A Interior gallery), captured nature in its special moment — when snow and silence turn an everyday landscape into “incredibly beautiful worlds. And one, grabbing the camera on the move, gets inside this unexpectedly opened looking-glass, turning into an enchanted wanderer, running after this disappearing in this beautiful picture ...
...Photography is an attempt at testimony, an attempt to capture from this stream of life the bits of reality we have seen and experienced. To preserve on a sheet of printed paper this infinitely elusive, time-carried away moment, to hold it, trying to give the property of immutability to something as ephemeral as a moment of time...”.
(Anna Kudryavtseva)
Black-and-white photography is a special genre of light painting (from Greek “light”, “writing”), capable of emphasizing light and shadow contrasts, dramatizing the composition, placing it on the level of theatrical action. But what makes these landscapes expressive, is the specific view of the artist, her exceptional manner of conveying not only the state of nature, but also the state of the artist’s soul.
This exhibition is a call to dive into the white world of light and shadow, a nostalgic “postcard” from a place or even a moment in time, “imbued with some fragility and poetry, some special silence, when the world, filled with whiteness, changes beyond recognition.”
We appreciate the participation in the project and also express our gratitude for the highest level of performance of ORATIO Giclée Fine Art Print Studio.
Join us on this exciting exploration in A&A Interior from the 13th of December.
Anna Kudryavtseva was born in St Petersburg in 1971. From childhood she was fond of drawing and was seriously engaged in classical music. At the age of seventeen she entered the icon painting class at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (SPbDA). She studied under the guidance of Sergei Ivanovich Golubev, who worked for many years in the State Russian Museum as a restorer of the highest category, and is rightly recognised as one of the founders of the modern school of icon painting. The meeting with this amazing man had a great influence on the life and work of the artist and confirmed her choice of profession. In 1991 Anna moved to Pechory, where she continued to perfect her icon painting skills in the atmosphere of a quiet rural town with a monastery. In addition to icon painting, Anna is engaged in art photography and oriental painting, she is still fond of music and studied organ playing. In 2023 she moved to Montenegro.
Anna sees art as a way of contemplation, an attempt to search for the beautiful in the ordinary, as well as an opportunity to disconnect from everyday life and go deeper into herself. In her works she tries to reflect the presence in the surrounding world of a higher, spiritual beginning that fills every particle of our universe with life and beauty, and at the same time to remind about the fragility of the universe, its vulnerability and pain from the collision with the forces of destruction.
Anna is a frequent participant of exhibitions, competitions and festivals both in Russia and abroad. Among them are two solo exhibitions of icon-painting works in Sweden and a solo exhibition of photographs at the Tallinn Museum of Photography. She is also a multiple winner of the international photo competition ‘The Colour of the White Wall’, and at the anniversary festival of this project in 2023 her work was presented among the best of all the years of the festival. Together with other Pskov photographers Anna represented Russian photography in France at the festival ‘Déclics Niçois’ (Nice, 2020) and at the Russian-French photographic meetings in Fréjus (2021).
Awarded a letter of thanks from the Committee for Culture of the Pskov region for the contribution to interethnic communication as the author of an artistic series of photographs reflecting the life of the small Seto people (2019).
Anna's works were included in the publication ‘Image of God’ devoted to modern icon painting, the book was published in 2009 in the publishing house ‘Kolomenskaya Versta’.
She is known as a teacher and organiser of icon painting master classes on icon painting (Sweden, Estonia).
Her icons are in churches and private collections in Russia, Finland, Sweden, England, Czech Republic, Estonia and New Zealand.
Since 2001 she has been a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.
Exhibitions, festivals and competitions:
2024 - A&A Interior galley, Tivat, Montenegro ‘Dance of Brush and Ink. Oriental painting by Anna Kudryavtseva’
2023 - winner of the festival of multimedia installations ‘White Wall Colour’, Pskov, Russia.
2022 - gallery ‘Tsekh’, exhibition of printed graphics ‘Accessible Estamp’, Pskov, Russia.
2021 - exposition within the framework of Russian-French photographic meetings in Frejus, France. 2020 - ‘Park Phoenix’, photo exhibition within the framework of the photo festival ‘Déclics Niçois’, Nice, France.
2020 - Museum ‘Postnikov's Chambers’, exhibition of modern Pskov icon ‘Cathedral of Church Arts’, Pskov, Russia.
2020 - Pskov House of Folk Art, exhibition of modern Pskov icon ‘Purification’, Pskov, Russia.
2019 - Tallinn Museum of Photography, personal photo exhibition ‘Space of Silence’, Tallinn, Estonia.
2019 - Exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Russia, Christmas exhibition, Pskov, Russia.
2019 - Pskov House of Officers, author's exhibition ‘At the outskirts of Pskov land’, Pskov, Russia.
2019 - Museum ‘The World of Forgotten Things’, photo exhibition ‘Dreams Colourful Sorcery’, Vologda, Russia.
2019 - winner of the festival of multimedia installations ‘White Wall Colour’, Pskov, Russia.
2019 - parish of the Transfiguration Church of Stockholm, solo exhibition of icons, Uppsala, Sweden.
2018 - Kastra Centre, international exhibition ‘The world through the eyes of women’, Haifa, Israel.
2018 - winner of the festival of multimedia installations ‘White Wall Colour’, Pskov, Russia
2018 - finalist of the third annual international photo award ‘35AWARDS’ (1 work was shortlisted), Russia.
2017 - Finalist of the First All-Russian Festival of Russian Art Photography and participant of the final exhibition (under the auspices of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia), Serpukhov, Russia.
2017 - Space LOFT Project ETAGI, exhibition of contemporary icons, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2017 - National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, international exhibition project ‘Saints of the Undivided Church’, Minsk, Belarus.
2016 - Kastra Centre, international photo exhibition ‘The World through the Eyes of Women’, Haifa, Israel.
2016 - Gallery ‘Centre for Books and Graphics’, international photo exhibition of urban landscape ‘City - Habitat’, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2016 - Museum ‘The World of Forgotten Things’, photo exhibition ‘City. Today's Day’, Vologda, Russia.
2016 - Museum ‘The World of Forgotten Things’, photo exhibition ‘To prolong the summer...’, Vologda, Russia.
2016 - winner of the festival of multimedia installations ‘White Wall Colour’, Pskov, Russia.
2015 - Gallery ‘Centre for Books and Graphics’, international photo exhibition of urban landscape ‘City - Habitat’, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2015 - finalist of the first annual international photo award ‘35AWARDS’ (3 works were shortlisted), Russia.
2011 - Smolny Exhibition Hall, exhibition within the framework of the international conference ‘Contemporary Icon in the World’, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2003 - St Sava Cathedral of the British-Scandinavian Diocese of the Serbian Patriarchate, personal exhibition of iconographic works, Stockholm, Sweden.
