Elena Kolobova

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Elena Kolobova
Born	May 21,1961 Podporozhye, Leningrad region, USSR
🏳️ Citizenship	Russian
💼 Occupation	artist

Elena Viktorovna Kolobova is a Soviet Nonconformist Art and Russian artist, photographer, author of literary works, collector of fine art.

Biography

She studied the fine art in the Art studio of Podporozhye. After that she also learnt at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after A. S. Pushkin. She graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport, where she met the famous art critic and collector of the Leningrad Soviet Nonconformist Art Nikolay Blagodatov. Acquaintance with his unique collection connected her life with the world of art and collecting.She personally meets and collaborates with representatives of Soviet Nonconformist Art such as Richard Vasmi, Anatoly Zverev, Sholom Schwartz, Vladimir Yakovlev, Natta Konysheva and others. Thanks to these acquaintances, Elena Kolobova became an Art collector and an artist. Elena Kolobova's creativity is truly multifaceted. A special role in her work is played by such a genre as still life. Elena has a special passion for still lifes. At first glance, when you look at her still lifes, you think that she created them immediately, without making preliminary sketches or sketches, however, as it turned out, this is absolutely not the case in real life. The theme of fruits, especially loved by the painter: pears, apples, watermelons, lemons, zucchini and so on, were painted by Elena with special care and virtuosity. Some of the artist's works executed in an abstract manner involuntarily refer us to the work of Lyubov Popova or Kazimir Malevich, but we must not forget that many artists experience or are influenced by one or another artistic style.

Since 2022 Elena Kolobova has been a member of Artists Trade Union of Russia and consists of United Art Rating. She works in different styles: Avant-garde, Fauvism, Primitivism, Suprematism. The words of Anatoly Zverev, sound symbolically today. Anatoly Zverev said "...draw your squares to infinity, to burp, and the rest will come... and exhibitions, and recognition ..."

In 2021 She released a unique monograph "The Past, the distant, the near" in which she described numerous meetings with artists of Soviet Nonconformist Art and contemporary artists.

Creativity

The creative path of Elena Kolobova was marked by the visits in the 1970s and 1980s to exhibitions of The Gazanevsky art exhibitions of Leningrad Soviet Nonconformist Art at officially authorized places of the Leningrad - the House of Culture named after Ivan Gasa and the Nevsky House of Culture. The works of the Soviet Avant-garde artist Evgeny Rukhin turned Elena into an admirer of nonconformism. She became an Avant-garde artist too. The heritage of Elena Kolobova has more than a thousand paintings and graphic works. Elena's paintings and drawings are regularly exhibited in Russia and abroad. Russian Art critic Andrey Epishin said

Elena does not seek to imitate or surpass nature, even less to achieve its exact reproduction. She interprets the surrounding reality in her own way, guided by her own imagination and taste, demonstrating to what extent her creative memory is trained. Kolobova's range of themes and images is very wide. She works professionally in various genres: she is fascinated by portrait, still life, and landscape. Possessing an innate sense of the whole, the author knows how to combine many diverse traditions, practices and styles like no one else.

Since the mid-1980s, she has been replenishing her collection Soviet Nonconformist Art which includes works by Vladimir Yakovlev, Richard Vasmi]], Anatoly Zverev, Nemeta Miklosha, [[Konysheva, Natta Konysheva, Katya Medvedeva, Alexander Glukhov and so on.

Exhibitions and collectors

1. Collection de l'art brut

2. Collection of Bohemian and A. Turchin.

3. MOMus–Museum of Modern Art–Costakis Collection.

4. Exhibitions "Autumn" (2005 - 2009, 2014, 2015) Saint Petersburg Union of Artists.

5. Exhibitions in Finland: Oulu (2001, 2016), in Jämsä (2015, 2018), in Nivala (2016, 2020).

6. "Christmas Exhibition 2009. Annual exhibition of new works by St. Petersburg artists "Petersburg" "Manege". St. Petersburg.

Publications (main)

1. Kolobova E. The past, far and near: notes from a diary about artists, poets and other figures of art. St. Petersburg, publishing house "Contrast". 2021. ISBN 978-5-98361-343-0 Search this book on .

2. Illustrator Elena Kolobova. // Glukhov A.V. Philosophical reflections in poetic form. Moscow. Ridero Publishing Solutions. 2022. ISBN 978-5-0056-2162-7 Search this book on .

3. Glukhov A.V. Painting and graphics by Elena Kolobova. Moscow. Ridero Publishing Solutions. 2022. ISBN 978-5-0056-3226-5 Search this book on .

4. Art. "Oil painting" // Glukhov A.V. Fine Art. Ed. Serebryakova L. G. Moscow. Ridero Publishing Solutions. 2022. pp. 35-37. ISBN 978-5-0056-1761-3 Search this book on .

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