"A vision in the sunlight
a moment unseen in years past
The emotion seeps past
An unspoken moment
There is clarity
The bright yellow of the sun
Reflected in creative effort
Look at me
For in the reflection of the sun
There is a uniqueness
Unseen
Brighten the day
By sharing the emotions of your life
In your feelings
And your paintings
Reflect the sunlight in your work
And you will brighten the lives
For generations to come
As you have brightened mine." a
letter received via internet
ELEN GERA
(sometimes named as Ellen due to a possible translation)
Elen
Gera was born, grew up and reached artistry in Moscow. Born
in the heart of Moscow, in the house next to the Church on Brusov, behind of the
Moscow Government building and opposite the famous Composer's House, from
the early age she expressed the artistic talent that brought the award of the
Surikov Art School and enrolment in under exceptional case when she was 8
years old. Painting studies at the Surikov School and at the Grem
Kalinovskys art studio gave her sure basis and freedom for creative work.
Russian School of Art had a great influence on her work as far the Italian
culture she studied closely along her first art exhibitions since 1993. In
Moscow, 1998, the first exhibition, sponsored by DialogBank, took place.
1999-2000 - at the Triumph Gallery, Moscow. Since 1999 - permanent at
GeraGallery, and temporary exhibitions at the others galleries and places
in Moscow and abroad. She participated in the art projects at Nina Stevens
house.
There
are two series in her creative work, mutually complementary, 2 sides of reality,
action and contemplation, senses and emotions, conscious and subconscious:
spiritual, Bible, nature in lyrical, peaceful realistic works Contemplation
and sophisticated expressive vulnerable and mystical abstract works, devoted to
the research of human nature "Playing with subconscious".
Natalya
Miszhenko, the Doctor of Medicine, an expert of Tibetan medical practice (Research
Institute of alternative medicine, Russian Academy of Sciences),
publicly proclaimed with profound reverence and veneration
at the art-project opening, 2004
her paintings beam the warmth as the holy icons!!!.
Critics
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Dr.
Jurate Macnoriute
THE SECRETS OF PERFECTION
art magazine: "..
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Guzevskaya
Victoria.
"Elen
Gera: Personality and creative works.":
"I
admire the precise perfect creation obviously built by talent and hard work. And
I highly respect the high proficiency level. Any work includes some mechanical
arts but the real art work appears after being animated by Divine Energy of
afflatus,
said
Gera in interview. She is obviously a richly endowed nature, a brilliant artist
with charismatic and extraordinary personality.
Her creations really radiate fascinating beautiful completeness, the
paintings are kind of metaphysical, lively, radiant, these
paintings beam the warmth as the holy icons,
Natalya
Miszhenko, the Doctor of Medicine, an expert of Tibetan medical practice (Research
Institute of alternative medicine, Academy of Sciences), publicly said with
profound reverence and veneration.
These splendid complete works of art draw your attention, may be more or less stimulating or exciting, or comprehensible but obviously they took up the certain bright position in the contemporary art. The work is a hymn to the Life, which is so multi-stratum, changing and fascinating. And as the reflection of this composite Life with its fast changing and of different interpretations of its reality there is a variety of artistic instruments of the performance of energy of emotions or senses inspired by the idea(Gera), so as to approximate to the complete picture of life.
The one range of paintings named Contemplation has the logical order of forms, colours and expressed ideas, as dominant, distinguishing characteristic. And the themes of this type of paintings are comprehended easily. Involving a viewer into the contemplation the painting brings the energy for him to get the strength and peace of mind. There is a saying Lookers-on see the most of the game. In the other series the realm of colours is spirit-stirring and meaningful. The conceptual framework of all these abstract art works, expressed in vibrating varieties of lines and colours for producing diverse abstract forms, is to be a tool kit to stimulate creative and abstract thinking, to develop the interactions between conscious and subconscious, said the artist and added, my paintings shall stimulate positive emotions and senses, thinking, shall help a person to know more about the world and himself for the sake of his own well-being and the world around.
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J.Broome. CLS. Geneve. 2004. About the abstract art in Gera's work: This is a new wave of abstract expressionism based on accumulated knowledge of human nature and the world, and theories of ancient and contemporary philosophy and psychology. It is impossible to copy any of these artworks, as each of them has a complex composition with multiple layers of shades and colours, creating subtle vibrations that appear more or less vividly depending on the intensity of the ambient light. They are labyrinths with ever more discoveries to be made the deeper you explore through your own subconscious."
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Kuznetsov, art critic, Moscow, 2000:"The imagery leads you into the depths of the picture, into mysterious temptation, into unknown. It is a glimpse through a door opening on to another reality. The painting lives its own life and changes form depending on the intensity of light and the space around the painting. There are no clearly drawn forms, but everyone draws a meaning from the images. "
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Eugenia Doronkina, critic, "Report from Bell'Art":The series of works named Contemplation, in my opinion, is the artists sensation of the harmony of the universe, and simultaneous perception of human greatness and insignificance. These pictures touch on conciliation and serenity, and issues of God and beliefs.. The series Playing with subconscious is the dream, fantasy, something impalpable this is paradox! There are no clear forms but you read them. There is no consistency but completion. I would like to stop on ADAM APPLE. It is hard to express the feeling it gives by words because it lights on the subject which is deep inside of subconscious and has no name. It has something maternal, warm, milky, sacred, it is the beginning, it is what was before the whole, very simple and incredible sophisticated, empty and easy but filled and tight , the center and the null in the same time, but the time doesnt exist there, this is the fruit as result, the idea, the feeling, the foreseeing. Such kind of paintings cant be estimated, because they are part of eternity and were brought to us by it through one chosen, the genius.
Extract
from Doronkina's report "About E.Gera exhibition on ARTs
2003":
"Times
flow through death and stops in life. In this point
where eternity and time meets on the cross-piece of Soul window-sash..."
Milards Pavich "Inside the wind",
the saying used as the begining of the "Substance of Freedom" by Gera
Known as a creator of unusal interesting concept and presentation of the art-projects, Elen Gera participates in ARTs-2003. Today she is the most brilliant young talents in art with own style and phylosochy. Her paintings and photopictures are in private and corporate collections in the different part of the world. In the begining of 90' she was a curator of the "Russian Art" exhibitions in Italy, followed by solo-exhibition of her drawings and paintings, mostly landscapes, although even in the works of these years we see the trace of the demand for new forms of expression in visual art. First serious abstract works had appeared in 1999. Since than we can speak of the two series of her work: "Contemplation" and "Playing with subconsious" and some of the new works of these series along with the well-known widely are presented on ARTs . "
Doronkina. "Art-project
Bell'Art: More than visual art"
Perception
is our first idea - Plato
"While
living we shall learn the art of living Seneca
"Bell'Art:
more than visual" new project of GeraGallery,
that took place on Moscow Contemporary Art Fair ARTs-2003 supported by Ministry
of Culture, by Art Experts Association, The Visual Arts and crafts Fund,
Charitable foundation VEGA, 28.09.2003 in the Sokolniki Exhibition Center.
The
labyrinth of exposition, according the author conception, reminds the brain
structure. There is emotional sphere, expressed in colours and lines, and the
world of logic in images of the reflected reality. The both parts create the
common space that has in the center the black tunnel fulfilled by images of
hidden meaning.
The
two series of artwork demonstrate different perceptions of reality and
possibilities of its interpretations. Every issue bears the imprint of keen
artistic perception and deep insight of the outer world or inner life and
requires the undivided attention to explore that it has to show.
The
contemplation shows majestic, picturesque sceneries and forms drawing our
imagination towards beauty and peace in mind within positive emotions it makes,
the abstract works talks individually and it differs from that what the other
may see because the paintings draws the personal hidden emotions, thoughts and
ideas out of subconscious in the stream of apparitions and vivid imagery. The
hustle shall be slowed down to let you light upon the secrets to let your vision
to extend beyond the border of the frame or bigotry, fixed belief, preconception,
of time and space and being free of to broaden your horizons. The sensation of
freedom is important issue of Geras work.
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Stein: "The bright colours of nature bring inspiration. The subject is simple but the intense play of colours is bewitching. Her landscapes are filled with light, space and tranquality. You want to walk into them."
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Carla Gugi, "Il Saggitore" art gallery, Rome:"Lyrical melodies in a harmony of meditative serenity enchant you and carry you far away from the reality of the big city."
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Anastasia Sazonova:"Visiting you virtual gallery on your web page couldn't have left me indifferent. I was fascinated by your work. I haven't encountered such beauty and harmony in modern art for a long time"
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Angelina, an spectator of "Eritis Sicut..." writes in e-mail:"I remember about my state, condition, when I was watching your painting - it had brought me to life. Could you tell me when will be your exhibition, I want to animate my soul. Thanks a lot for you."
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About all the art projects created by Elen Gera
2001 art project "Bell'Art:Women perception"
2004 art project "Eritis sicut"
I use unusual technique according to my studies of interaction between colours and mind
images in the paintings change due to the light intensity and bring up the plot,
read by subconscious via visual sensation.
We can say that any of my paintings is a tool kit to stimulate creative and abstract thinking,
to develop the interactions between conscious and subconscious.
Elen Gera
