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| Ekaterina Ezhkova |
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1977.11.04
Saint-Petersburg
Russia
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| 关于此艺术家 |
from Robin Cracknell, London 2007
Amongst the tens of thousands of artists displaying their work on the Saatchi online website, Ekaterina Ezhkova’s gallery is one of the very few that made me pause and linger and revisit again and again. As a theme, memory and nostalgia can be overplayed and there is certainly no shortage of artists out there mining this territory but Ezhkova has a way of ‘restaging’ certain family scenarios that are both comforting
yet oddly unsettling as well; young children lined up in winter coats, the austere, formidable matriarch behind dark glasses, a young girl staring up at the camera, the photograph lifting her out of time and now revisited again as a painting. A mark of Ezhkova’s talent and her ability to connect with her audience is that, despite the fact that I am neither the age nor the nationality of her subject matter, I saw and felt my own childhood in her pictures. The poses of her figures are those of my own parents and grandparents in my family album and it is remarkable to me that she has captured the authenticity of age so well with her palette of subdued colour and economy of line. I love the way she leaves parts of the canvas bare and some figures completely painted while others merely sketches as though, like all memories, there is always something indistinct, something half-forgotten, a feeling that inevitably remains unresolved.
There is so much feeling in Ezhkova’s paintings yet they are completely rinsed of any sort of obvious sentimentality. The faces are not conventionally beautiful and few are smiling but they are all imbued with the same sort of truth as the archtypal family snapshot and the figures not merely models but real people, loved, mourned, and remembered. Ezhkova’s narrative seems one of genuine affection but there is more than a hint of sadness here--a sadness of longing perhaps, for people and places she can never revisit except by painting them.
Ezhkova’s technique--particularly in her newer work in which she paints over a coloured pattern, sometimes allowing that layer to show through--is quite accomplished for an artist who is still relatively young. Her subject matter is universal but her command of that subject is rare and I have seen precious few few artists that explore childhood and family relationships with such gravitas and truth yet still with such affection. Her work is confessional and obviously very personal but it is extraordinary in the way it seems to include us, the viewer, in her story. In every painting, there seems to be a story attached, as though we are only seeing a glimpse of a wider narrative and it is that glimpse, that curiosity for more detail, that makes these paintings so compelling. Like childhood itself, Ezhkova’s work is profound, inscrutable and quite unforgettable.
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Women in red
2007 Installation in old factory ca. 150 x 50 cm |
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At this time I am working at several projects. In one of my last serials I tried to return to the sixties. Sometime ago I found a huge number of photographs which my grandfather took in his life time. In his days he was a high ranking soviet fleet commander and in his free time he was also a passionate photographer. In most cases his family or the fleet served as the subjects for his photography. The range of his works went from “Chruschov on the boat” to his little son and his young wife. I really wanted to give some of these people a new life by returning to these days. I have already explored St. Petersburg and Brache/ Schleswig-Holstein. |
Tired Tanja
2007 tempera on canvas 150 x 100 |
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At this time I am working at several projects. In one of my last serials I tried to return to the sixties. Sometime ago I found a huge number of photographs which my grandfather took in his life time. In his days he was a high ranking soviet fleet commander and in his free time he was also a passionate photographer. In most cases his family or the fleet served as the subjects for his photography. The range of his works went from “Chruschov on the boat” to his little son and his young wife. I really wanted to give some of these people a new life by returning to these days. I have already explored St. Petersburg and Brache/ |
Valja
2007 tempera on canvas 150 x 100 |
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At this time I am working at several projects. In one of my last serials I tried to return to the sixties. Sometime ago I found a huge number of photographs which my grandfather took in his life time. In his days he was a high ranking soviet fleet commander and in his free time he was also a passionate photographer. In most cases his family or the fleet served as the subjects for his photography. The range of his works went from “Chruschov on the boat” to his little son and his young wife. I really wanted to give some of these people a new life by returning to these days. I have already explored St. Petersburg and Brache/ |
Beutiful people
2006 tempera on canvas 150 x 100 |
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At this time I am working at several projects. In one of my last serials I tried to return to the sixties. Sometime ago I found a huge number of photographs which my grandfather took in his life time. In his days he was a high ranking soviet fleet commander and in his free time he was also a passionate photographer. In most cases his family or the fleet served as the subjects for his photography. The range of his works went from “Chruschov on the boat” to his little son and his young wife. I really wanted to give some of these people a new life by returning to these days. I have already explored St. Petersburg and Brache/ |
50 er
2007 tempera on canvas 150 x 100 |
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Girl
2008 tempera on canvas 180x60 |
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At this time I am working at several projects. In one of my last serials I tried to return to the sixties. Sometime ago I found a huge number of photographs which my grandfather took in his life time. In his days he was a high ranking soviet fleet commander and in his free time he was also a passionate photographer. In most cases his family or the fleet served as the subjects for his photography. The range of his works went from “Chruschov on the boat” to his little son and his young wife. I really wanted to give some of these people a new life by returning to these days. I have already explored St. Petersburg and Brache/ |
Tanja
2008 tempera on canvas 180x60 |
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At this time I am working at several projects. In one of my last serials I tried to return to the sixties. Sometime ago I found a huge number of photographs which my grandfather took in his life time. In his days he was a high ranking soviet fleet commander and in his free time he was also a passionate photographer. In most cases his family or the fleet served as the subjects for his photography. The range of his works went from “Chruschov on the boat” to his little son and his young wife. I really wanted to give some of these people a new life by returning to these days. I have already explored St. Petersburg and Brache/ |
Looking up.
2008 30x30cm mixed media |
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Looking up.
2008 30x25cm mixed media |
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Looking up.
2008 30x25cm mixed media |
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Looking up.
2008 30x20cm mixed media |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Ekaterina Ezhkova (Vays)
www.ezhkova.de
ezhkova@web.de
1977 born in St. Peterburg
1992-95 school with extended art lessons, No. 190
1995-01 studies at the “Muchinskaya” Academy (SPbGHPA),
St. Petersburg
2001 diplom
2001 Modulor 2001 ( exhibition competition), first price
“work of the year” and two golden diploms.
2001 scholarship at the Bornholm Highschool
2002 member of Russian Designer Union, St Petersburg
2004 Max- Oscar- Arnold Price of the city Neustadt (Coburg), Germany
2005 member of the federal artist union Germany
Since 2004 living and working in St. Petersburg, Russia and Greifswald, Germany
Personal Exhibitions
2005 Pillow book, Gallery Depping, Münster
2005 Art & Music, Brache, Schleswig – Holstein
2006 Forum for young art, Hypo Vereinsbank, Rostock, Germany
2006 Seegalerie, Bordeshaolm, Germany
Some Exhibition participation
2001 Russian youth, Manege, Moskau.
2001 Modulor 2001, Manege, St. Petersburg,
2002 diplome, Hojskole, Bornholm, Danmark
2003 Modulor 2003, Ethnic State Museum, St. Petersburg
2004 « Sie Они » , St. Spiritus Greifswald, Germany
2005 « Sie Они », Pushkinskaya 10
2005 New members, Schleswig – Holstein Haus, federal artist union Germany, Schwerin
2005 2RN Gallery, Bornholm, Danmark
2005 DGB, Hamburg
2006 polpolja, German – russian Exchange, St. Petersburg
2006 Nord ART, Rendsburg, Germany
2006 I chose, «Sie Они», НоМИ, St. Petersburg
2006 young art, State Museum for Sculpture, St. Petersburg
2006 „Sie-Oни“, НоМИ, art magazine hall
2006 NordArt, Germany
2006 „Rostock Kunstprise 2006“, city museum
Future exhebithions:
2007 NordArt, Germany
2007 "Anonyme Zeichner No_4"
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| 未来的展览 |
Saint Petersburg, gallery Globus, januar 2008, Russia
Kunst Kreis Pretz, januar 2008, Germany
2008 "Russland" im "Miramar" (Tönning)
2008 ART sessiya, St.Petersburg
2008 Künstlermuseum Heikendorf-Kielförde
2008 Kiel, Kunstraum B
2008 St.Petersburg, Comik Art Gallery |
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