Anastasia Kurakina
snowman
2023

About the Item

Several Anastasia Kurakina's artworks have been included into the Vatican Museums collection since 2017 She has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London at bp portrait award exhibition. artist: Anastasia Kurakina original painting on paper one of a kind hand signed Anastasia Kurakina lives and works in London. Her art for her is an adventure, a magic process in which she takes part as a mirror that ventures to reflect and eternize the essence of the deepest and the most hidden moves of human's characters. "I dedicate my time to explore and analyse human emotions through art. Whether it is a live portrait or a surreal scene, a depiction of a naked body, each artwork begins with the eyes and some rough, black outlines. They determine the image, which then gradually emerges by itself. It's like walking in the fog, and the image gradually becomes clearer. The fact that I don't know exactly what will happen makes it fascinating. I only see myself as a participant in a creative process. The colors also arise intuitively and are dictated by the state of mind of the person I depict. I pay attention to the smallest details and emotional reactions, and try to translate them into an individual portrait. That is why I prefer painting from live. Thanks to that psychological analysis, my paintings show emotions that people never experience in the mirror or through a photo. What they try to hide, I dig up and make visible. I try to get to the essence of their being. While that might scare some people, there's no need for that. Because as Picasso said:" in the end, every artist first and foremost portrays himself.”I experiment with the vibrant power of colours and try to leave academic knowledge behind. I play with the framing, which makes my characters seem to want to escape from their frame. Every new work arises instinctively, and is always a new discovery for me too. If other people experience the same emotions afterwards, then that is pure magic." Kurakina“s works are a personal interiorization that matches the search for a deeper meaning, beyond visible reality. Her”s is a desire to go beyond the pure representation of reality, a need to tell something that goes beyond the external aspect, that something that speaks of the inner part of those who are portrayed. Collective exhibitions: 2023 London biennale, Chelsea, Old Town Hall; 2023 YICCA International art contest, Venice, finalists exhibition; 2023-Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London,UK; 2023 - London, UK, Sunny Art Award International exhibition finalist; 2023 -Royal British Painters Society, Mall Galleries exhibition, London, UK; 2019 – London, UK Royal Watercolor Society’s Contemporary Watercolor Competition, Bankside gallery; 2018 – Edinburgh, UK, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award; 2017 – Vatican, Vatican Museums, “Antico Presente” exhibition; 2017 – London, UK, Sunny Art Award exhibition, finalist Sunny Art Center; 2017 – Exeter, UK, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, BP Portrait Award; 2017 – London, UK, National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award; 2017 – London, Works on paper Art Fair, Royal Geographic Society; 2016 – Rome, live painting at Brasilian Embassy at Simone Ghera’s “Dance inside Brasil” exhibition; 2016 – Oxford, UK, Oxford International Art Fair; 2015 – Mexico, MUMEDI Mexican Museum of Design; 2015 – Cambridge, UK, Cambridge International Art Fair; 2015 – Rome, Museum of Contemporary art MACRO; 2013 – Los Angeles, La luz de Jesus Gallery; 2013 – Shanghai, International Art Fair of Contemporary Art; 2013 – Rome, Embassy of Iraq, Embassy of Egypt; 2013 – Venice, Arte Laguna Prize’s exhibition at Venice’s Arsenal; 2012 – Rome, «Green blood»at Dorothy Circus Gallery; 2011 – Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome; 2010 – Naples, “Biennial of the artist’s book”; 2009 – La Paz, Bolivia, 4°Bienal Internacional Siart; 2008 – Bari, 28th International Fair of modern and contemporary Art; 2008 – Moscow, “Art Manezh 2008”, Central Exhibitions Hall Manege. Collections: Private collections in Italy, UK, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Singapore, USA, Vatican Museums, Nina lobanova-Rostovskaya (London), National Museum of Art Humor of Tolentino, National Museum of Sacred Art of Nonantola (Italy), Marchese Sacchetti(Rome), National Centre for Manzoni’s Studies (Milan). Personal exhibitions: 2022 - Modern & contemporary art Gallery, double show in Rome; 2019- la Scala d’oro gallery in Rome, 2019 – Rome, Marino Gallery; 2018 –Milan, Zanuso Gallery; 2017 – London, Russian Cultual Centre; 2017 –Luzern, Switzerland, International Comic Festival; 2017 – Rome, Russian Center of Culture and Science; 2016 – St.Petersburg, the Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center, Art League Gallery; 2016 – Porto Cervo, Sardinia,MDM Museum of Contemporary Art; 2016 – Rome, American Embassy; 2013 – Tolentino (MC), International Art Museum of Tolentino; 2006 – Moscow, Central House of Artist. Awards: 2017 – Rome, I prize of the national award “Arte&sport” of the AONI (National Italian Olympic Academy); 2015 – Rome, Adrenalina prize I prize; 2013 – Rome, Adrenalina prize under 35 and prize of the public, Museum of Contemporary Art MACRO; 2013 – Chieti, Milan, Golden Medal of«Illustrate Manzoni»award, Chieti-Milano Manzoni’s Museum, Italy; 2012 – Milan, Winner of the scholarship for the artistic research of Socetà Umanitaria of Milan; 2011 – Tolentino, I prize “City of Tolentino” of the 26 th edition of the International Bienniale of Art Humor of Tolentino; 2008 – Modena, I prize “Under 25” of the national Competition of Contemporary Sacred Art “Familia Sancta“.

Creator:
Anastasia Kurakina (1987, Russian)
Creation Year:
2023
Dimensions:
Height: 13.78 in (35 cm)Width: 14.97 in (38 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Tempera,Watercolor
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2144214202902