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Elmira Shemsedinova
Artist from Ukraine
Elmira was born in February 14, 1989 in Kyiv. She graduated from Kyiv State Art Lyceum T.G. Shevchenko in 2007, and Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2013 (magister). She completed an assistantship-internship in 2017 and has been exhibiting since 2009. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2013.
Elmira creates a lot of series painting and graphic works. Being in constant search of new forms and opportunities of representing and rethinking classical painting. Continue to study painting, as a language of visual communication in contemporary world. Еlmira has developed her own original approach using the technique of imitating watercolor painting with oil paints.
Actively participant of art residencies and contemporary art symposiums. She held 6 personal exhibitions and participated in more than 40 collective projects, auctions and art fairs in Ukraine and abroad. Artworks become a part of different collections in Europe, USA and China.
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Splash
Painting by Elmira Shemsedinova
70 x 90 cm • Oil on canvas
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
"Tense horizon line" – series of watercolors and oil painting landscapes.
2022
I always drew sketches from nature. What is reflected in quick sketches is elusive, how every minute of our life is special and it will never be repeated. I often think what the constant reproductions of the same landscape mean to me. A large number of sketches are made before choosing one or another one. It's about the relentless search and subjective choice and the fact that you can never make two identical options. A new depth opens up in a narrowed view of an object or a landscape. Depth is just about the sea.
I spent every summer in Crimea by the sea. My grandfather's relatives come from there. Also, for 4 years in a row, I participated in the Biryuchy residence, which was also based on the Sea of Azov. A whole series of works in oil are painted in real life sea sketches. Constantly looking at the horizon and weather changes is a normal course of everyday life near the sea.
I can only imagine what people feel when they look towards the Black Sea now. A black alarm emanates from where enemy Russian warships sail from over the horizon, making daily rocket attacks on Ukrainian land from the sea.
This new series, unlike the previous one, arose only from memory. The image deeply imprinted on the subcortex of the brain is reproduced every time anew. An ephemeral memory is constantly changing. But this is only a memory, so it does not have natural colors.
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
About the artist
Elmira Shemsedinova
Artist from Ukraine
Elmira was born in February 14, 1989 in Kyiv. She graduated from Kyiv State Art Lyceum T.G. Shevchenko in 2007, and Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2013 (magister). She completed an assistantship-internship in 2017 and has been exhibiting since 2009. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2013.
Elmira creates a lot of series painting and graphic works. Being in constant search of new forms and opportunities of representing and rethinking classical painting. Continue to study painting, as a language of visual communication in contemporary world. Еlmira has developed her own original approach using the technique of imitating watercolor painting with oil paints.
Actively participant of art residencies and contemporary art symposiums. She held 6 personal exhibitions and participated in more than 40 collective projects, auctions and art fairs in Ukraine and abroad. Artworks become a part of different collections in Europe, USA and China.
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