Ekaterina Spasolomskaya’s personal exhibition «Theatre of the Present»: painting and graphic art

The personal exhibition of painting and graphic art by Ekaterina Spasolomskaya «Theatre of the Present» is open from 2 September at the Theatre Salon in the Yermolova House Museum.

Ekaterina Spasolomskaya is a famous Moscow artist and stage designer, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists and the International Federation of Artists. She participated in 35 exhibitions, including 15 personal. Such recognized masters as Vladimir Andrushkevich, Vladimir Pastukhov, Nikolay Merkushev, Sergey Barkhin, Natalya Nesterova, Stanislav Morozov, Vladimir Serebrovsky were her teachers. The Spasolomskaya’s works are presented at the GITIS Museum and in private collections of U. Dzhabrailov, M. Alshibaya, Prince Michael of Kent.

Both painting and graphic art works of Ekaterina Spasolomskaya are presented at the exhibition «Theatre of the Present». The display is located in three halls and is divided into three separate parts.

So, the designs for theatre performances, various stage designs and illustrations for the author’s course on make-up «Rainbow Portrait» can be seen in the first room.

The panel paintings created during two decades and reflecting the bright and original artistic worldview of the author are shown in the second hall. The world in the Spasolomskaya’s perception is a divine theatre, and the author’s paintings reveal to us a wonderful iridescent reality transformed into a theatrical fairy scenery. The main message of the author appears in a fantastic colour interpretation. Masterfully painting the reality, the artist reveals to us the possibility of staying in the world much more interesting and colourful than it seems to us at first glance. This is a protest against trivial everyday life and a solution how to abandon it, an indication of the ability of every person to create and perceive reality as a decoration for the miracle that is about to happen.

The third and final hall of the exhibition takes the form of the Tea Theatre, where visitors can participate in oriental tea ceremonies and listen to the sound of guzheng, an ancient Chinese stringed instrument. The artist’s works situated at the Tea Theatre represent a synthesis of painting and hieroglyphics.

At the exhibition «Theatre of the Present» you can see about a hundred painting and graphic art works made by Ekaterina Spasolomskaya for all the time of her bright creative path.