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Zoia Skoropadenko “Intellectual Landscapes And Milk”
Art For Thought
The “Intellectual Landscapes” series, created on Zoia Skoropadenko’s travels between Monaco, Paris, Japan, California and Britain, blazes a new trail. “Intellectual Landscapes” depict rural views from her summer studios and seascapes around her hometown of Monaco sketched from high-speed French (TGV, Eurostar) and Japanese (Shinkansen) trains.
Skoropadenko loves trains. On her journeys, she captures landscapes that pass at 320km/h – a blur, a snapshot flashing past her window. Every blink of an eye is a new landscape. Every second a new sketch to be made. Following the footsteps of Corot, whose paintings Skoropadenko studied and recreated in Musee d’Orsay in Paris as a copyist, her style has evolved towards a kind of minimalism. The current exhibition will show Skoropadenko’s landscapes from Akiya, Kamakura, Sakurajima, and Mediterranean vistas of France and Monaco.
The show will also include work from the “Milk” series of sculpted oil paintings, created by Skoropadenko as a reaction to the Art fairs Frieze and FIAC and the male-dominated art scene and markets that revel in dark, violent, and pessimistic views – a male macho battleground. Skoropadenko felt there needed to be a counterbalance to this testosterone-fuelled reality, opposing the darkness and anger with something tender, nice, optimistic, and feminine. That reaction is “Milk,” a subject Old Masters loved to paint and a symbol of promise and comfort.
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Zoia Skoropadenko
The “Intellectual Landscapes” series, created on Zoia Skoropadenko’s travels between Monaco, Paris, Japan, California and Britain, blazes a new trail. “Intellectual Landscapes” depict rural views from her summer studios and seascapes around her hometown of Monaco sketched from high-speed French (TGV, Eurostar) and Japanese (Shinkansen) trains.
Skoropadenko loves trains. On her journeys, she captures landscapes that pass at 320km/h – a blur, a snapshot flashing past her window. Every blink of an eye is a new landscape. Every second a new sketch to be made. Following the footsteps of Corot, whose paintings Skoropadenko studied and recreated in Musee d’Orsay in Paris as a copyist, her style has evolved towards a kind of minimalism. The current exhibition will show Skoropadenko’s landscapes from Akiya, Kamakura, Sakurajima, and Mediterranean vistas of France and Monaco.
The show will also include work from the “Milk” series of sculpted oil paintings, created by Skoropadenko as a reaction to the Art fairs Frieze and FIAC and the male-dominated art scene and markets that revel in dark, violent, and pessimistic views – a male macho battleground. Skoropadenko felt there needed to be a counterbalance to this testosterone-fuelled reality, opposing the darkness and anger with something tender, nice, optimistic, and feminine. That reaction is “Milk,” a subject Old Masters loved to paint and a symbol of promise and comfort.
Schedule | Oct 2 (Mon) 2017-Oct 14 (Sat) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Venue | Art For Thought | ||||||
| Location | 1F Wako Ginza Hatchome Bldg., 8-10-4 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 | ||||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit A4 at Ginza Station on the Ginza, Marunouchi and Hibiya lines. 7 minute walk from the Ginza exit of JR Shimbashi Station. 7 minute walk from exit A1 at Higashi-ginza Station on the Toei Asakusa line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-6228-5922 | ||||||
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