Tanika Yezhova

The exhibition was held as part of the Norwegian-Russian festival “Borders Free” in the community center “Second School”, Nikel, Russia. Curator: Sasha Krementes.

The project presents two series of works – Norwegian and Russian – two different north. Mossy and in a way rusty, reconciling severe rocks to habitable buildings, turning sudden lonely feeling into blissful solitude, sharply beautiful and limitless the North.

The Russian part is called The Rusted North. Seven landscapes of Nickel like seven days of the week where we are moving from the totally industrial and pretty gloomy Monday to Sunday powered by mighty northern nature.

The second part of the project “Boundless/Grenseløse” is Norwegian. Abstract (or semi-abstract) paintings are about the vastness and power of rocky nature, the feeling it evokes – how small and lonely you really are.

The project includes painting, horizontal paintings with stone and lichen textures, and sound.

Paintings’ details:

1. Void I, 2019, oil on canvas, 40×50 cm [15.75 × 19.69 inches]

2. Nord III, 2019, oil on canvas, 40×60 cm [15.75 × 23.62 inches]

3. Nord II, 2019, oil on canvas, 60×80 cm [23.62 × 31.5 inches]

4. Milestone, 2019, oil on canvas, 100×120 cm [39.37 × 47.24 inches], Private Collection

5. Void II, 2019, oil on canvas, 38×55 cm [14.96 × 21.65 inches]

6. Nord I, 2019, oil on canvas, 50×60 cm [19.69 × 23.62 inches]

7. Cold, 2019, oil on canvas, 60×90 cm [23.62 × 35.43 inches]