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Filonenko Vlad, Nyrkova Marta
“During the period of the genre of Venitas, windows were absent in still lifes. As in many works of art of other periods, it was something additional, insignificant. But it was the light that gave the still lifes their emotional impact and colour. In our premises of the Institute, the window is an important element that unites all the workshops and brings a new colour to the bulky Soviet building. When you look into the artist’s room, you immediately see the window and the light pouring into the studio. And then you see the figure of the artist emerging from the backdrop. Each studio is a separate dimension with its own colour.”
The art object is a restoration table.
Usually, in Venetian still lifes, medical instruments reminded of the mortality of the human body. The table presents tools that are used to give new life to art objects. These are the same tools, but in the hands of a restorer they acquire a new meaning and significance
Vlad Filonenko was born in 1992 in Kherson. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Vlad works as an artist-restorer, performing restoration of art objects of varying complexity.
2006-2013 – studied at the Taras Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv.
2013-2017 – studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts. Speciality: technique and restoration of easel and monumental art, Kyiv.
In 2022, he took part in the first collective exhibition “UKRAINE is” of the “Chornozem ART” project at the Art Market Budapest with an art object made of a shell casing.
Marta Nyrkova was born in 1994 in Kyiv, where she lives; watercolour artist.
2005-2013 – studied at the Taras Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv. Participated in many school competitions and exhibitions.
2013-2017 – studying at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Speciality: technique and restoration of easel and monumental art, Kyiv. Graduated with honours.
She works as a research artist, studying changes in the city, terrain, and landscape types. She also works with the concept of nostalgia, capturing moments of “here and now” that immediately become the past due to the rapid passage of time. He works in different directions, experimenting with materials and subjects.
Exhibition projects
2014- personal photo exhibition “Black Water” at the Freud house cafe.
2018- participation in the Mini Watercolour Festival in Kyiv
2018- participation in the exhibition “Aqua Album 2018” in Kyiv
2018- participation in the exhibition at Stefania Palota in Budapest
2018- participation in the exhibition “Sea of Watercolours 2018” in Odesa, Ukraine
2018 – participation in the exhibition “Kyiv through the eyes of Ukrainian artists and architects” in the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv.
2019 – participation in the exhibition “AQUAREL. Intellectual art.”
2019 – participation in the charity exhibition in support of prisoners of war “Come Back Home”
2019 – participation in the exhibition of watercolours “Andrew’s Descent”.
2019 – personal exhibition at the Fairmont Hotel in Kyiv.
2019 – participation in the exhibition “Our Kyiv” at the Pavlo Tychyna Museum.
2020 – participation in the exhibition “Cobalt Blue. Watercolour”.
2020 – participation in the watercolour festival FabrianoInAcquarello, Fabriano, Italy.
2020 – participation in the online 3rd International Festival of Watercolour Miniatures.
2021 – participation in the online exhibition “LIMITLESS” Florence contemporary gallery.
2022 – participation in the watercolour exhibition “Global Art Connection Watercolour Exposition France Poland 2022”, France, Poland.
6-9 October 2022 – participation in the collective exhibition “UKRAINE is” by the Chornozem ART project at the Art Market Budapest with an art object made of a shell.