Viva la vida
In this project, the author explores the connections between generations through art. The artist’s grandmother, when she was alive, gave her knitted napkins instead of kind words and probably expressed her love in this way. Lena told her grandmother that she did not need it and would never need it, but her grandmother insisted that she accept the gift. Her grandmother has been dead for a long time, and Lena decided to explore “knitted connections” through a kind of collaboration, integrating her grandmother’s napkins into her own paintings
Lena Gryzunova (b. 1980)
In 2004, graduated from Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Exhibitions:
2007 “Before Birth”, M. Gorky Museum, Kazan
2012 “Birth”, A la prima gallery, Kazan
2013 "Insight". Center for Contemporary Culture “Smena”, Kazan
2014 “Winter”. Center for Contemporary Culture “Smena”, Kazan. Curator Ilgizar Khasanov
2016 “Art in an imagined future.” Curator Rostan Tavasiev.
2017 “Anthropomorphs.” Black&white gallery, Kazan. Curator G. Faizrakhmanova
2021 Winter Fair, Belova Art Gallery, Kazan
2023 “Oxygen”, Republican Museum of Fine Arts, Yoshkar-Ola
2023 “Dreams from the other shore”, museum-reserve “Island-city of Sviyazhsk”
2024 “Idel ART”, Khazine Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan
In her work, the artist pays special attention to the mysteries of the birth of all living things. To one degree or another, this topic is relevant for every viewer. That is why Lena’s works touch, evoke emotional experiences and raise certain questions. After this, a dialogue begins with the work and with oneself.
In the project “Anthropomorphs”, the author explores human and animal essences. The artist’s search for man in the beast and the beast in man led her to create a series of animalistic-anthropological characters symbolizing the idea of non-action of evil and detachment from the untrue.
In the projects of recent years “Topiary World”, “Growing”, “Second Nature” the artist explores the evolution of human interaction with the plant world, a reflection of the role of the “plant” in human history.
Works by L. Gryzunova are in private collections in Russia and Europe
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