solo show Irina Dubrovskaya

«ELEMENTAL CARTOGRAPHY»

07.03 — 28.03

Vinzavod Contemporary Art Center, 4 Syromyatnichesky Lane, 1/8, building 9, entrance 22

The exhibition presents works created by artist Irina Dubrovskaya over the past 10 years. In the first part - "Globes" - she seeks to connect the image of the globe with a microcosm of human life. This series was started by the artist in 1993 and continues to this day. The infinite picture of the world is interpreted by Irina Dubrovskaya each time in a new way, while maintaining three qualities: the plot on an eternal theme, infinity, as well as the harmony of the image applied to the perfectly round surface of the globe.

The second part is the work on navigational charts. The maps were found in the attic of an old house and were first used simply as drawing paper, but gradually the markings of an unknown navigator began to direct the flow of the artist's thoughts. Thinking of him and his wanderings, Dubrovskaya took her pen and ink and sailed on the sea of life, in which the past and the present, the eternal and the momentary, the living and the obsolete are inextricably mixed.

Irina Dubrovskaya does not divide her work into genres. She calls her style "primitive conceptualism," where "primitive" is something basic, ancient, and natural, and "conceptualism" is the ability to let the rules of the world through.

Here is what art historian and artist Elizaveta Pavlinskaya writes about Irina's work: "She was originally a progressive artistic youth in the late Soviet Union. A great and complicated professional education, work at the megagigantic state Combine for the production of ideological fetishes and superobjects and an incredible desire to make art with a unique meaning. Art lived on its own, consisting of the petals of civilization flying through a private, unique, inimitable life. Art that has its own unique voice to reproduce the deep, beautiful and far from simple experiences of a thinking person. Having found herself in the city of musicians and artists Berlin (Western Free Berlin), Irina found herself twice a favorite of this amazing place. It is hard to say what influenced whether it was the success of the band Unterwasser, where Irina's art really found a voice in the band's lyrics and in her musical parts, or the special tender attention of the Berlin Academy der Kunst to the young artist from the USSR. As a result, the ability to draw beautifully and create monumental images of "state" quality, but with penetrating poetic content, brought Irina Dubrovsky not only the love of professionals, but also world fame, quite by accident. On the background of her graffiti on the surface of the Berlin Wall in 1990 Pink Floyd played their concert The Wall, which changed the world's consciousness. Now Irina Dubrovskaya, along with her art, is engaged in humanitarian work and writing, and back in art and music.»

Dubrovskaya Irina

Artist, muralist, graphic artist, author and participant of performances, writer, author of the collection of short stories "Pentastenok", published by Lomonosov Publishers in 2019. Author of the idea, lyrics and musical compositions of the band "Ersatzmusika" (Berlin). From 2005-2011- regular performances with the band in the cities of Germany, Belgium, Austria.

Artist, graphic artist, author and participant of performances, writer, author of a collection of short stories "Pentastenok", published by Lomonosov Publishers in 2019. Author of the idea, lyrics and musical compositions of the band "Ersatzmusika" (Berlin). From 2005-2011 she took part in regular performances with the band in cities in Germany, Belgium, Austria.

In 1983, she graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Technology and studied at the Applied Arts Department.
From 1984-1991 was a member of the Youth Association of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
Since 1989 - participant of numerous exhibition projects both in Russia and abroad.
From 1991- 2014 - lived in Berlin and then in the south of France.
Since 2020 is a member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
Since 2014, she has lived in Russia in the Tver region.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2022 - Cartography of the elements, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2021 - "The Travels of the Soul" in the atrium of the Drama School Theater, Moscow
2021 - "Cartography" showroom of the shipyard of the Association of Pomor shipbuilding, Arkhangelsk
2013 - "Contemplation of the World" Ultramarine gallery, Saint Petersburg
2010 - "Other Balls", at Spider & Mouse gallery, Moscow
2007 - in Kaai Theater, Brussels
2004 - TATAU OBSCUR, Berlin
2000 - "Subjective Geography" Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
1998 - Petersen & Partner, Berlin
1995 - "Travels in an Armchair" Cafe Grün, Bremen
1998 - TERRA INCOGNITA, Academy of Arts, Berlin
1997 - "Circulation", Galerie O.F. Paris

Works of the artist are in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, in private and corporate collections in Russia, in Western Europe and in Australia.

"She was originally a progressive artistic youth in the late Soviet Union. A superb and sophisticated professional education, a job at the megagigantic state Combine to produce ideological fetishes and superobjects, and an incredible desire to make art with a unique meaning. Art lived independently, consisting of the petals of civilization flying through a private, unique, inimitable life. Art that has its own unique voice to reproduce the deep, beautiful and far from simple experiences of a thinking person.

Finding herself in the city of musicians and artists in Berlin (Western Free Berlin) Irina turned out to be a double favorite of this amazing place. It is hard to say whether it was the success of the band Unterwasser, where Irina's art really found a voice in the band's lyrics and music, or the special tender attention of the Berlin Akademie der Kunst to the young artist from the USSR. As a result, the ability to draw beautifully and create monumental images of "state" quality, but with penetrating poetic content, brought Irina Dubrovsky not only the love of professionals, but also world fame, quite by accident. On the background of her graffiti on the surface of the Berlin Wall in 1990 Pink Floyd played their concert The Wall, which changed the world's consciousness.

Now Irina Dubrovskaya, along with her art, is engaged in humanitarian work and writing.

Irina Dubrovskaya herself no longer divides her work into genres. Irina Dubkovskaya calls her style "primitive conceptualism," but don't be fooled by the words - primitive here is basic, ancient, natural, and conceptualism is the ability to let the rules of the world through your feelings. European curators define Irina's art as "animate metaphors. And yes - it is an art of knowledge and reflection, a fantastically beautiful drawing in the spirit of the great European masters, meeting the demands of the strange pair - the soul and the brain."

Elizaveta Plavinskaya - artist, art historian, critic, member of the All-Russian Association of Art Historians, member of the International Association of Art Historians AICA, member of the Section of Book Artists of the IUCN