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Turquoise #2 — Elena Lipatova (Russia)

Author ✍️ Sveta Golubeva, art critic

Elena Lipatova is a contemporary Russian artist. She convincingly and professionally works with different mediums: metal, ceramics, canvas, art objects.

Elena’s complex interdisciplinary artistic voice can be described in the following terms: saturated, bright, vital, rough, exciting, defiant, reflective, deliberately artisanal.

The artist uses unexpected cultural references: African art, fauvist and neo-expressionist techniques. Elena’s high technical level allows her to skillfully and seamlessly use borrowing in her art work.

Elena’s art works do not look rough and kitsch due to the use of text frames and elements of the fashion industry.

The artist explores the territories of kitsch but enriches it with non-kitsch content and expands the scope of interpretation of visual expressiveness. Elena Lipatova“s conceptualist approach creates a spectator environment free from the artist”s violence and is based on three humanistic principles: conceptuality, relevance, accessibility.