Contour Graphics Art Fair
Sheraton Kremlin Hotel — 1 Teatralnaya Sq, Nizhny Novgorod
May 17—19, 2024
Booth No. 8
Artists:
Anna Bystrova, Yulia Virko, Mila Gushchina, Artyom Lyapin, Nikolay Onishchenko
May 17—19, 2024
Booth No. 8
Artists:
Anna Bystrova, Yulia Virko, Mila Gushchina, Artyom Lyapin, Nikolay Onishchenko
About the fair
The second edition of Contour Graphics Art Fair in 2024 brings together 40 participants from Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other cities, including galleries, educational institutions, and contemporary art initiatives. Contour is an important cultural event for the host city and the country at large, promoting popular interest in contemporary art and collecting.
Grabar Gallery booth at Contour Graphics Art Fair is an extension of Tomorrow Morning, At Dawn, Home Will Return, They Say, an exhibition at Terminal A, offering a different vantage point and a slightly different set of participants
The artworks are selected and the booth designed based on a shared singular color called “green moss”. It epitomizes unstable footing, porous surfaces that tend to bog you down. A large-scale project on the sense of home is complemented with the artists’ contemplations on the search for inner support and a solid foundation.
Graphics by Nikolay Onischenko from the Order series rely on a strictly “don’t-look-back” view and a visual metaphor for habitual landscapes. The main object here is the horizon line, which manifests self-sufficiently. Anna Bystrova’s series The Flora of My Forest reflects on the energy of nature and its scenery as a core driver of creativity. The artist encourages the viewer to explore the details and peer into each blade of grass under their feet.
New graphics by Artyom Lyapin are alternated with his edition prints from the series Used to Live Here, featured at the exhibition at Terminal A. His works depict fantastical towers, made up from tiny hatches and snowflakes, that aspire upwards.
Yulia Virko continues her series The Promised Mirage. Her experiments with different techniques and film express her away-from-home experiences, including mirages of houses or lone travelers. Watercolors for Mila Gushchina become a mode of in-depth self-exploration and the starting point for her embroideries and paintings. Although her graphical works are colorful and diverse, they constantly feature certain recurring elements: paws of mystical creatures, stars, the image of a person in search for shelter.
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