#Natalie Rukavishnikova. Interview with an artist

Today I would like to present a young artist Natalie Rukavishnikova to you. I was happy to ask her several questions about her life.

Natalie Rukavishnikova

Please, tell us your story: when did you start to draw?

As many other children I enjoyed drawing when I was a little girl. I studied in an ordinary school. Drawing took all my time when I started to prepare to enter the academy.

As far as I know you graduated from The Russian University of Theatre Arts. Why did you choose this university? Didn’t you know that your future would be connected with painting?

While studying at school I had a dream to dedicate my life to skateboarding. When I was 14, such brands as Nike, Fresh and Fiction cooperated with me. However, after numerous injures I realized that I would not be able to work like this for a long time. So, when I was about to finish school, I started to think about the future, to search something that I would love not less than skateboarding. Something that would give me the same feeling of liberty. The first idea that came up to me was to follow in my mother’s footsteps and become an architect. I started preparing to enter Moscow Institute of Architecture. At the same time, I helped my friend in the children’s musical drama theater named “A-Ya” with the stage properties (artist and dramatist Egor Fedorichev introduced me to this theatre). I went to the theatre frequently. Suddenly half a year before the exams I remained committed to the painting, to the work with color and to the examination of theater. After school I went to The Russian University of Theatre Arts to study to be an artist and stage designer. It was rather a spontaneous and intuitive decision.

worshop

I came to know your works of art when my friend showed me some postcards depicting your pictures from VENN series. There is a girl with a bear on each of them. What did you want to tell us creating these works of art?

For me it is just a story about the imaginary friend. While working I was inspired by Norwegian fairy-tales and my little sisters.

Venn

Going deeper into your works of art I noticed that your pictures depict people, animals and nature. Why did you choose them?

Something wild surrounds us and at the same time can be found inside us. Animals and nature symbolize our emotions.

For instance, let us look at the painting “A Walk in the Dark”. When love, fear, hatred or other emotions make a person blind, he moves blindfolded. And if he doesn’t open his “eyes”, sooner or later emotions will swallow him up.

A Walk in the Dark

What is your favorite piece of art? Why?

As a matter of fact, today movies impress me deeper than other works of art. Very often they are similar to paintings for me. I enjoy watching “Crimson Peak”. I think this piece of art is awesome and beautiful. Everything is overwhelming: actors, costumes, scenery, ghosts, the mansion. This story wants to be seen again and again.

painting

I know that you are about to finish drawing a series of works inspired by Ray Bradbury. Could you tell us about these paintings?

Yes, to a large extent Ray Bradbury and the Major Arcana in the Taro deck inspired me. In this series I’m interested in a person: how he, so imperfect, aims to become a whole one. For example, his fears, illusions and emotions, fight against them and their admission.

in process

Where people can see and buy you works of art?

You can find some paintings, sketches, interviews and publications, information about the past exhibition on my website natalieruka.com. There is a list of products available for sale in Store section. Paintings from the series can be bought after exhibition, some can be reserved while I paint them. If you want to buy anything, you can address me directly through my website, mail or messages.

Moreover, there are copies of extra and limited edition in storystore.ru shop.

Natalie

Thank you for the interview. Looking forward to visiting your next exhibition.

Thank you.

AUTHOR || Elizabeth TIKHOMIROVA IG @eli_daizy

ARTIST || Natalie Rukavishnikova IG @natalieruka

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#Modern art in GUM10/4/19

Exhibition of the modern art will take place in GUM, from April 13 to May 28. The best Russian artists of our time will take part in it.

2019 will enjoy an incredible number of art show that speak on behalf of modern art. One of the highlights for Moscow will be the GUM-Red-Line Festival. Opposite the red walls of the Kremlin will be the work of the best Russian artists of our time.

The We Are One Family Art Show and Festival, which originated from the art project of BoscoMagazine, was chosen as the story line of the exhibition. For four years, famous Russian artists have revealed in their work the theme of the family. So each BoscoMagazine cover became an exhibition of one picture.

Sergei Bartkov

The project participants:

Vladimir Dubossarsky Oleg Kulik AES+F Andrey Bartenev Pavel Pepperstein Georgy Ostretsov Georgy Totibadze Konstantin Zvezdochetov Alexander Vinogradov Sergey Bratkov Semyon Faibisovich Grisha Bruskin Aidan Salakhova Bella Levikova Irina Korina Tanya Pioniker

From April 13 on the 1st line of the store will open the exhibition, built in the format of 16 art pavilions and designed by the architectural bureau WowHaus. It besides various genre works such as paintings and drawings, video and objects will be information about the artists.

Georgiy Totibadze. Autumn 2016. “Nachalo”

This will give visitors a possibly evaluate the life and career of the position of each participant of the project.

The Festival will provide a platform for an educational program that will include tours suitable for any audience. Do not miss a discussion panel featuring the artists, a performance by the Praktika Theater, film screenings, and an interactive master class on creating new contemporary art objects.

Photo provided by the organizers

Author | | Alina Izmailova

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#The tastes of Russia10/2/20

When foreigners come to Russia, their first and last gastronomic impressions of the country are usually pancakes, caviar and vodka. In order to destroy, but rather to supplement and diversify these taste “cliches”, in order to correctly present the national cuisine at the international level and in order to make gastronomic tourism an integral part of a visit to Russia, President Hotel has developed The Tastes of Russia series of dinners. It was about them that we talked with Liana Antonova, the marketing director of President Hotel of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation.

Evgenia: Please tell us about the idea of The tastes of Russia?

Liana Antonova, the marketing director of President Hotel

Liana: The tastes of Russia project is designed to show both the whole variety of cuisine of this country and the capabilities of our hotel itself. The purpose of these dinners is to introduce our guests to the traditional Russian courses in a modern interpretation. For a Russian guest, these dinners are an original gastronomic experience when you try a taste familiar from childhood in a new, completely unexpected combination. For a foreigner, the dinners are a unique opportunity to get acquainted with Russian food and spices, because it is hardly possible to be able to do that anywhere else.

We have analyzed a large study of Booking.com, where the top 40 largest cities of the world were ranked by their attractiveness to tourists: New York City, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai were assessed in terms of culture, nightlife, friendliness, gastronomy and so on. It was pleasant to perceive that in many respects, Moscow is one of the leaders of the rating, but the food aspect was always inferior. And then we decided to set ourselves a very ambitious task – improving the position of Moscow and Russia as a whole in the foreign market of gastronomic tourism.

The concept of modern Russian cuisine has not yet been clearly formed. A traditional and already obsolete concept exists: “Russia is borsch, cheese pancakes, and pickled products.” But this is a standard, rather narrow, stereotypical set. After all, in addition to pancakes, we have plenty of other options: just take buckwheat porridge with boletus mushrooms, and you will be surprised at the interest with which it is perceived by tourists.

With these dinners we want to show how, on the basis of traditional, local food products, it is possible to create modern, complex, really interesting and conceptual courses, to form new culinary bases, and how to promote them internationally.

Evgenia: Each particular dinner is a new gastronomic story, an experimental story in many respects. What is its basis?

Liana: For each dinner our chief, Semyon Zharkikh, creates a separate menu. The composition is built around products traditional for one of the Russian regions. For example, the menu of our northern dinner included both king crab, and sea hedgehogs from Murmansk. Cooks develop different versions of courses, and ways of serving them, in order to present something interesting, unique, and offbeat. And, of course, national wines are added to the gastronomic heritage of the region.

Evgenia: And how does the spoilt Moscow public perceive our wines?

Liana: Enormous attention is currently paid to the development of the national wine-making, and most of our guests already know and appreciate wines of the Krasnodar region and Crimea.

Separately, it is worth noting how exquisitely wines are combined with courses. The person responsible for the selection of wines to our dinners is Alexei Mitrofanovsky, our director of restaurant services, the to-class sommelier: he prepares unique wine selections.

Evgenia: And how do you choose the theme for dinner?

Liana: We try to develop dinner menus together with chefs of well-known restaurants and we devote a theme to an area in gastronomy. For example, we had an evening of gastrobotany. And quite recently we had a “Dinner à la President”: we presented a selection of courses on the basis of the preferences of top officials of foreign states who stayed in President Hotel. In addition to the gastronomic component, we have an art part as well. within the framework of The tastes of Russia, we had a National Geographic exhibition and an exhibition of modern painting.

Evgenia: What awaits those courses that were created specifically for The tastes of Russia?

Liana: The positions that have gathered a lot of positive feedback during an evening are included into a special offer from the chef. They will be served in our bar and restaurant in a test mode. And then the courses that won the special love of the guests will be transferred to the main menu. Because we infinitely cherish the experiences of our guests. Many of them still remember the amazing carpaccio of porcini mushrooms. And this is fantastically pleasant and truly valuable and suggests that we are moving in the right direction. It is important for us to make our guests fall in love with our hotel, our city and our country.