Anna Nova Gallery presents Alexandra Garth's pop-up project 'Pasture' in the AIKI Terrasa space. The artist goes beyond the limits of her usual graphic medium and for the first time presents paintings filled with 'dark' poetics — nervous, a little frightening, but fascinating. The exhibition also presents new experimental works created with felt-tip pens on fabrics, printed graphics of previous years and hand-painted plaster sculptures.
'Looking into the silence of the desert landscapes, one can notice how the features of the industrial landscape gradually appear in the ragged netting and clouds of black smoke — signs of a new urban world, where the boundaries between natural and man-made are erased. Inspired by the novel 'The Colour Out of Space' by the American science fiction writer Howard Lovecraft, the artist reflects on the mysterious future that exists on the verge of extraterrestrial phenomena, about the inescapable horror of the unknown and the infinity of the Universe, in which man may no longer have a place,' says the curator of the gallery Polina Slepenkova.
In her artistic practice, Alexandra Garth reflects on the epoch of the Anthropocene, creating parallel worlds of post-apocalyptic reality. The Gart method is based on the asceticism of artistic means, the maximum strength of the visual image with a minimum of visible effort. Alexandra is the co-founder of the STYD - an independent art space. A series of Gart’s total installation (Styd, Fail, Resistance is Futile) has been shown there. As a member of the space’s curatorial team, she became the winner of the category ‘Art’(2021) in the ‘TOP 50 Saint Petersburg’s . Most Famous People awards’. She was the nominee for the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize (2021) in the category ‘The Best Visual Art’ with her project ‘Fail’ (2021). In 2013 through 2016, she participated in the international public art festival ‘Art Prospect’. In 2017 through 2019 she successfully showcased her works at the SamFair. She designed Nikolay Oleynikov's book ‘Service to Science’ (2016).
The project will last until September 3. Free entry.
Venue: AIKI Terrasa. Saint Petersburg, Aptekarskaya nab., 18, 8th floor
