Secret Garden: Painting, Graphic Art, Ceramics by Irene Lotova and Rimma Lotova in Tsereteli Art Gallery
The exhibition brings together a selection of works by representatives of the Lotov family dynasty: ceramics of Rimma Lotova together with paintings and graphic art of her daughter Irene Lotova.
Irene Lotova was born in 1958. She studied in the Moscow Art School N1, graduated from the Moscow Art College in Memory of the Year of 1905. Since 1982 – a member of the USSR Union of Artists.
Of big interest have been for Irene Lotova her trips to the Crimea where she started working at landscapes of gardens and parks and executed her first pastels. The artist also has special relations with the old town of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky in Yaroslavl region, 140 km to the northeast of Moscow. She has worked there in the House for Creative Work and has been living in her private house near Pereyaslavl for the last two decades. Irene Lotova calls her garden a “studio of plain air”, where she solves complicated problems of light and color.
In different periods Irene Lotova was influenced by the French impressionists, Spanish painting, Russian artists Michael Vrubel, Victor Borisov-Musatov and Pavel Kuznetsov. In her Moscow studio she paints landscapes, interiors and compositions where she usually depicts female figures often in long dresses with fans used both for compositional purposes and for achievement of a definite emotional condition.
Ceramic works by Rimma Lotova displayed in Tsereteli Art Gallery are sincere and full of lyric mood and delicate sense of humor. Rimma Lotova was born in 1930 in the family of painters. She graduated from V. Mukhina Higher Art and Industrial College in Leningrad. Since 1962 – a member of the USSR Union of Artists. For many years she has worked in monumental landscape and park sculpture. Twenty years ago when she started to live in the house near Pereyaslavl, she returned to the plastic art of small forms and ceramics. The world of her images is poetic and spiritual, the realities of the surrounding world are transformed by the artist’s fantasy. She finds her inspiration in the folk and native art.
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