Between wish and reality
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Marina
Moskalenko is an artist born in Bryansk, Russia, in 1990. Since she was a
little child she felt attracted by artistic creation. She started her artistic
studies at 10 at the Art school in Bryansk and in 2005 she took already part in
the International competition of
children's creativity "Spiritual your treasures. World and War” and in
the International festival of the modern
art of N. Roslavts and N. Gabo just one year later. In 2007, she continued
her studies at the Art College of Bryansk and since 2011 she is studying at the
St. Petersburg Academy of Arts while she is developing her own style through an
artistic journey that goes between her wishes and her view of reality. She has
participated in several exhibitions in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Poland, Ukraine
and Finland and in the creation of children's performances fairy tales, always
expanding the ways to express her own creativity.
What’s the most
important thing in life for you?
Harmony with oneself and the world is the most
important thing for me. I think if it’s
present you get a satisfaction from your life.
And what is art
for you?
Art for me is first and foremost an attempt to
understand the world and to open myself. It’s a way to establish non-verbal
contact with the audience. This is a conversation without words.
Why and when did
you decide to express yourself artistically and why through the painting?
It wasn't the easiest way. As a child I had a lot of
interests and still in school I started looking for myself. I felt inside
myself a creative potential and tried to develop them in literature, music, acting,
but I hightailed the fact that I wanted to become an artist. All of those ways
I liked. Therefore maybe on a subconscious level I choose the profession of
stage designer-it combines all.
What you express
through your art comes from your view of reality or the way you wished it was?
I think it's a mix of my wishes and my views of
reality.
In your work one
can see that you go from figurative to abstract. Is it a kind of evolution or
you are still working both styles?
I'm looking for my own style constantly. I think it
always be this way. And who knows how real is what we see, perhaps the
abstraction is reality.
Your figurative
style evokes me the impressionist age. What are your artistic references?
Thank you. I love the impressionists and
postimpressionists no less. It’s difficult to distinguish one artist that
inspires me. Among all them I think constantly in Monet, Renoir, Cezanne,
Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh. Also I choose the works of Ciurlionis.
How do you see
the current artistic scene in your country and in the world?
As for me I think that now the art scene is at a
transitional moment, it has seemingly been created all what is possible, but
the artist continues to seek,and to try to create a new thing The important thing
is that there are artists who can think, who have ideas and skills for its
realisation. I think the future is for them.
Could you
explain me a memory from your childhood?
From my childhood, for example I remember the moments
when I was seeking the business for myself, what I wanted to do in my life. I was
also very amused with my family and their children's performances with songs
and dances.
Marina Moskalenko | A selection of works here
An interview by Juan Carlos Romero
Marina Moskalenko
Photo courtesy of Marina Moskalenko
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