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Inside the Artist Studio: Russian artist Alexei Vermishev

Artist: Alexei Vermishev
Born:1954
Located: St. Petersburg, Russia
Background: Alexei Vermishev was born in Saratov and worked as an artist in the Saratov Theater and studied at the Saratov Art College. He worked for an extended time at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. He is a traditional trained oil-painter that approaches his subject of objects and the female model with a modern style. Alexei lived and worked in various places including Finland, Barcelona and other parts of Europe, where he came in contact with the work of European modern painters.

Alexei’s studio was an array of humor, wit and a tinge of innocent madness just like that of its inhabitant. Apparently he enjoys working in his studio in the presence of a cat, the rumor goes that at one point this painter had 20 street cats that will regularly come and visit him in his studio! The below slideshow is an exploration of the surroundings of his studio.

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By Anja Marais|2017-05-02T12:57:05-04:00June 17th, 2013|

The white night’s ink

the white night’s shadows

run like spilled ink down

the hills and drip its puddles

from pedestrians feet

the trees cypher light in broad strokes

of brushed sumi liquid over the earth

jumping puddle, river and streets

black mercury pools of shapes

and lines of gestalt fingerprints

a display on the absolute of gravity

and when the rain comes

the pools reflect the pedestrians shadows

back up like grounded butterflies

by Anja Marais

By Anja Marais|2017-05-02T12:57:06-04:00June 15th, 2013|

Inside the Artist Studio: Russian Icon artist Yury Stupitsa

Artist: Yury Stupitsa (Юрий ступица)
Born:1954
Located: Kronstadt, St. Petersburg, Russia
Background: Yury Stupitsa is an Icon painter registered with the UNESCO international artist federation. He started his studies in theater at the Odess School for Theatre & Art and later at the St. Petersburg Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Today he does commissions and restoration work mostly for the Russian Orthodox Church. His work is displayed internationally in collections in Germany, France, Brazil, Israel and Finland.

Yury’s studio was bright with a view over the city that included Cathedrals where his work is installed in. He loves to collect items that brings history into his studio for companionship. You can view photographs in the below slideshow which was taken in this ‘sacred’ space.

{EDIT: I originally had his name as Tupitsa but is name has been changed to Stupitsa}

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By Anja Marais|2017-05-02T12:57:06-04:00June 14th, 2013|

The end. The beginning.

She looks tired, her face sullen
her built is somewhat smaller than
the younger generation

She is clad in coarse wool and black
her shoulders broadened by years
of hard labor and her hands
contain mountains and rivers

She never sits down she is
somehow always going forward
forward, toward, toward

Her steps are now short but still plenty
her back that of a tortoise-shell
covering its soft contents

When she passes soldiers, they salute her
The priest gives her a silent nod
The youth offers her their train seats

For she melted the steel that became
the bridges, the car
For she crushed the rocks that became
the road, the city hall
For she planted and harvested so that
you can grow

Even in her weakened state and waning last days
her footsteps keep pounding past our front doors
forward, forward, toward, toward

by Anja Marais

By Anja Marais|2017-05-02T12:57:06-04:00June 13th, 2013|

Unfiltered

From Notebook: Kronstadt, Russia, May 2013

The sensory world is a cluster of
visuals, shapes, forms and gradients
it is an ocean I am drowning in

Sounds tumble from doors, windows
and the waves crescendo with laughter, music
a tsunami that rushed me off my feet

Ideas pile up like Tetris in multilevel
abstracts, hypothesizes, revelations
a Jenga that soon will collapse and crush me

by Anja Marais

By Anja Marais|2017-05-02T12:58:06-04:00June 12th, 2013|