Diana Machulina is one of the most recognizable Moscow artists of young generation. Born in the Ukraine in 1981, she has managed to get several art educations in Russia and Germany so she has become the really international artist. In 2008th Diana has been awarded with Kandinsky prize as the best young artist. I love her paintings, they seem to be far away from the classic hyperrealism.
Marx. Grave of Marx on Highgate Cemetery , London. Sketch from Nature on Nov. 14, 2003, 41x51 cm oil on canvas
Diana Machulina could become an art icon of the new South Russian wave. But she has graduated from three Moscow art colleges and art academy in Stuttgart, there she has perceived an international system of visual language and left no trace of aesthetic heritage of childhood in Lugansk.
Alexander Evangeli, art historian
From the "Beauty and strength" series. 2010
From the "Beauty and strength" series. 2010
From the "Beauty and strength" series. 2010
Optics by Diana Machulina embeds unexpected irrational underside in the everyday world and the viewer begins to suspect it looking at the works by the artist. Machulina’s art gives the viewer the gift of aesthetic sensibility and casts doubt on the evidence. The gift of dismissal of obvious and familiar forms is the basis of the poetics of the artist. Her work returns us to reality as something disturbing and joyful invented a lot of times and in different ways and inexhaustibly dark in its intimacy.
Alexander Evangeli, art historian
NY, 2007, Oil on canvas, From the project Green Light
Paris, 2007, Oil on canvas, From the project Green Light
Record, 2007, Oil on canvas, 200x300 cm From the project The Old New
Girl, 2007, Oil on canvas, 200x300 cm From the project The Old New
The official bio of Diana Machulina
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