ELEN
GERA
(Ellen
Gera)
ELEN
GERA
(Ellen
Gera)
"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's lost )
Elen Gera was born,
grew up and reached artistry in Moscow. Born
in the heart of Moscow 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!!!.
Her artworks are around the world in private, corporative and museum collections.
Exhibitions
The projects and exhibition:
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 , 2000, 2002 within the art galleries in Italy, France and England;
1997-8 within Triumph art gallery, Moscow;
2000 - 2003 art projects in Nina Stephens house, Moscow;
2000 -2001 - within established GeraGallery;
2001-2 exhibitions within Art'L gallery;
2004 - exhibitions within Moscow Artists Union gallery;
2005 exhibition of Russian art in Paris under the Ministry Foreign Affairs in Paris,
the exhibition in Moscow: Flowers within DOMART gallery;
2006 "Naked Russia-2006" (Nicas,"Zero", "U Yara", "ArtsLonga"); art project "Bloshinka na Tishinke"...
Permanent exhibition within DOMART and Ararat Park Hyatt art galleries
art-projects
2001 Bell'Art, Women perception women in arts,
2003 Art's,Choice, Harem, "More than Painting
2004 Eritis sicut Deus (The Red Invasion, Pasha Style, Perception, Love, festival Other reality);
2004 making concept, project and elaboration of 10th anniversary of Le Meridien Moscow Country Club;
2005
scenario writer and a producer of a body art shows for Sales magazine party and for Merlin Casino,
scenario writer and a producer of performances and promo campaign within VEGA, as introduction party for AGWA, as "High Rank Party", "Latina Nights" and the other parties By IGGI,
Lecturing in marketing in arts and the colour psychology (SEASONS).
Setting up GERART Studio www.gerartstudio.narod.ru (portrait studio, photo studio, design studio), and its Internet projects:
www.gerart.land.ru
www.gerartcatalogue.narod.ru
www.vitasana.narod.ru
www.bodyartstudio.narod.ru
www.yourportraitstudio.narod.ru
www.gerasay.narod.ru
www.geraproject.narod.ru
www.wellbeing.narod.ru
www.moscowartclub.narod.ru
2006 the art projects: Nude, New Life, The Mystery of Sin, Point of View, Rome-Paris-London-Moscow
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 beginning of the "Substance of Freedom" by Gera
Known as a creator of unusual 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 philosophy. Her paintings and photo pictures are in private and corporate collections in the different part of the world. In the beginning 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 subconscious" 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 tranquility. 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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