Viviene Astakhova

Hi, I'm Viviene!

My study of art started at the art school, then I entered the Artistic and Aesthetic Lyceum, where I gained knowledge of drawing, painting, composition, architectural design, and art history. As I already have had certain technical skills in academic painting and drawing, at present the creative activity occupies a large part of my life: it is both a job and a hobby, painting has already become a way of life for me. In my works, I reveal the problems that modern people are not used to comprehending: the original independence of nature from man and the power of the human mind in creating any things with architecture. By experimenting with a volume of objects, I show how weak man is in front of nature forces. For example, we can't touch the sky, so I intentionally deprive it of volume and it is often shown flat in my works. It is the same with light, we cannot touch the sun's rays, we only see the shadow that the light leaves when it touches the shape of the object. The play of light and shadow, rare symbolism, exceptional creations of nature and man himself - all these things can be seen in my works.

Exhibitions:
2015 Moscow, Central House of Artist
2015 Paris, Louvre, Carrousel du Louvre
2019 Sochi, NewArtFest
2020 Saint-Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Union of Artist
2020 Novosibirsk, Gallery “Private Collection"
2020 Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russian Academy of Sciences
2021 Saint-Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Union of Artist
2023 First personal exhibition in Moscow. "Посвящается любви"