My Rooms. Solo show.

«My Rooms» is a new project of Katya Tzareva prepared especially for FUTURO Gallery and dedicated to the ethics and aesthetics of the space. A series of paintings, objects and a large-scale installation in the main gallery hall represent the modern processing of the architecture and design of late modernism transformed from a dominant doctrine into the language of art everyday life.

Space is a leitmotif of Katya Tzareva's art: she depicts enclosed rooms with a perspective going deep into the painting, uses exhibition halls and interiors transformed by architectural volumes and light inside video works. The artist turns to the aesthetics of modernism space and exacerbate the internal conflict between pure forms’ articulation and their mechanistic essence using picturesque techniques. Strict geometric volumes covered with deliberately random paint drips, surfaces overgrown by sloppy textures — all of these accentuate the feeling of discomfort and plastic imperfection.

The ideal space is addressed to the universal man. In the spaces of Katya Tzareva's works, where impeccable purity has been lost or has not been found, the human body is also subjected to dramatic deformations. It takes an unnatural position, loses a clear contour, blurs into color stains. Despite the obvious references to the 20th century architecture, the artist speaks about today: the future, once designed by modernism, now has become a modernity, where characters continue to resist standards. Thus, going beyond the rules and stereotypes is obviously read in the figures of female characters.

The main medium for Katya Tzareva is painting, whereas other art techniques and genres — objects, installations, videos — are either echoes of existing paintings, or models for the future. Volume-spatial things are not for pictorial methods duplicating but contain additional information about the colors and materials.

The artist considers modern relationship between man and nature as a symbiosis of the natural and artificial world, forming a whole in modern reality. This position is reflected through materials chosen for works.