ALLEXANDRA
an artist who wants to bring to the world more beauty in various media






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ALLEXANDRA
| Alexandra Osipova |
Artist, designer, researcher

Member of Moscow Artists' Union since 2011
Student of Natalya Nesterova and Evgeny Wakhtangov

9 solo and more than 35 group exhibitions of Fine Art, Digital Art and Scenography in Russia and abroad | France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Italy |

Finalist of an international art competition
ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 21.22
in Venice in CATEGORY Digital Art more...
Education
2020
Advertising, PR and Design: Integration of Communication Practices, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
2015-2016
Free Workshops, School of Modern Art, MMOMA
2012
Internship in the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2003-2008
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts – GITIS, set design

Professor of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics,
the Department of Advertising, PR & Design

Works featured in private collections in Belgium, France, Latvia, Ukraine and Russia

Lives and works in Moscow

ARTIST STATEMENT
I AM AN ARTIST, A DESIGNER AND A RESEARCHER

ARTIST

I started with oil painting, and have now expanded my artistic expression to include mixed media. I love to experiment: the joy and energy of working with them are critical to everything I do.

My visual art strives to evoke a multitude of emotions and interpretations, encompassing the figurative, metaphorical, symbolic, and philosophical.

I believe that text can enrich an artwork without solely explaining it.

For the last several years, I have tried various combinations of painting, video, statistical data, ready-made objects, live substances, recycling art, Paintings_Dresses, VR and performative sand art at the seashore.

My thematic exploration expands and branches out in diverse directions. I search for connections to the past, the present and the future; mythology, human feelings, discoveries and new journeys, new worlds and planets, and the beauty of nature revealing in detail.

DESIGNER

I am interested ina broad meaning of design – not only the visual part but how it works.

The most ergonomical ways to convey meanings to the audiences, copywrite and informational architecture.

How aesthetics and structure can influence on perception and assimilation of information. How to control reading speed and quality of understanding in the era of mosaic thinking and clip consciousness.

RESEARCHER

My research often intersects with my artistic practice, seamlessly integrating into my art projects.

The themes of my academic research are related to art as a form of communication, creativity and novel approaches in design, advertising and PR, art collaborations of different kinds and a wide spectrum of communicative languages.
WORKS
media
Oil on Canvas. Series
Unique wearable art pieces
5D-LIVE. Mixed media
Google Tilt Brush | Photo | Gif | Video | 3DVR Space
THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW MOON
| Google Tilt Brush | Photo | Gif | Video | 3DVR Space |
THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW MOON
The Journey to the New Moon is The Space Mission of exploring of The New Moon, a planet which newly emerged in the distance of 70 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus.

THE SNEW MISSION (South)North)East)West) was launched in 2018 with its major goal of collecting data about the surface of the New Moon and making analysis if this planet could be habitable for human beings.

The first spaceship with its 4 explorobots made a lodgment in the location which provides easy access to each of 4 destinations for an analogous distance.

The full dossier will be regenerated in VR and sent to the Earth.

As much as the next research, it has optional extra correlated with space observation.
THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW MOON
The name of the planet refers to the naming customs with its intention to remind people their motherland as well as to declare the similarities of both areas.

In the present case the main correspondence with the Moon represented by the several physical parameteres of THE NEW PLANET, which are identical to the lunar ones.
snew explorobotics
THE MOON
&
THE NEW MOON
Identical Physical Characteristics

Mean radius 1737.1 km
Equatorial radius 1738.1 km
Surface area 3.793x107 km2
Mass 7.342x1022 kg
Volume 2.1958x1010 km3


THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW MOON
The Journey to the New Moon is also a reflection upon the nature of exploration.

From the beginning of its history the humanity aimed to expand their territories by conquering the new lands and peoples, domesticating plants and animals.

What are our intentions in the roaming in the outer space?

Are they the same as the Conquistadors' who colonized more than the half of the world in the Age of Discovery?

Or as the Christians who propagated their religion by fair means or foul?
THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW MOON
Are we welcoming guests in the other Galaxy?

What are our expectations? Will we be greeted as friends or enemies?

Would it be a guest visit or an invasion?

Who and how will meet us-aliens and would they be happy about our desire making a settlement in their home place?
| Sand Art | Performance | 2019 | Cyprus | Sea shore |
SEA. SAND. LOVE.
Sea. Sand. Love. My first personal peformative practice was launched in the beginning of 2019 on Cyprus on the sea shore of Mediterranean sea, on the island of Love, the motherland of the Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty Aphrodite.

This performance could be the renewal of the ancient custom of bringing the gifts to the Gods.
SEA. SAND. LOVE.
One of the most fascinating things was the unpredictability, like in the real life. You never know how much time do you have, will you finish the drawing or the next wave will blot it out.

Maybe it will linger on for the week or maybe the surf will make you to precise the drawing so far as it will be plenty good enough for the gift for the Sea Gods.
Since my childhood I was in love with Greek myths and legends, I was excited about all these stories about the Gods, heroes and magical creatures, in which people of ancient Greece tried to explain natural phenomena and the origin of existing things.
SEA. SAND. LOVE.
The story of Eros and Psyche has caught my attention when
I've seen the amazing painting by Francois Gerard in the Instagram of Le Louvre. I realized that I remember the heroes but couldn't memorize the whole story.
SEA. SAND. LOVE.
The god of love and desire Eros married the human princess Psyche (the soul), therefore she became immortal and joined the Olympic Gods. The happy couple have the only child Hedone (the Goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight).
SEA. SAND. LOVE.
The legend of Eros and Psyche maybe one of few happy love stories in Greek mythology. Of course, it wasn't that easy and they went through the envy and jealousy of their relatives, who threw obstacles in their way.
The symbols of the images are very meaningful.
Could it be the ancient formula of immortality and delight, when love and soul create the alliance?
Harmony | Disharmony
ARMONIA - HARMONY in Greek
And what's happend when you leave it unattended for just one day...


    ALLEXANDRA PAINTINGS_DRESSES
    SINCE 2015

    The new generation of painting 2.0
    wearable pieces of art
    Art action everywhere where you are...

    Art recycle, mixed media
    Paintings-Dresses are wearable pieces of art made by the method of recycling of paintings in a special way.

    I use Paintings-Dresses for special events such as art actions, performances and exhibitions' openings

    And I also wear them in usual life as a casual art action.

    Once I dressed into Pollock and came to Kapoor….
    Alexandra Spring/Summer 2016

    The first PAINTING _DRESS "Hello, Jackson!"
    the hommage to Jackson Pollock
    Ready-To-Wear)

    MAZE LOST AND FOUND
    5D-LIVE INSTALLATION
    2018
    The 5-D LIVE Installation MAZE LOST&FOUND interacts with the audience in different levels: visual, audio, kinesthetic, olfactic, cultural, symbolic and emotional.
    The ready-made "lost" objects and small-size paintings are integrated in the live-grass and blossoming flowers environment. The live-grass-maze referred to a verdant hedge labyrinth with its long history in a garden design and at the same time to a children's play. The core message of the installation involves evolving and changing, which reflect the everlasting circle of life.



    SERIES OF PAINTINGS
    SINCE 2011
      2020 - RECENT
      2015 - RECENT
      2013 - RECENT
      2014 - RECENT
      2012 - RECENT
      2011 - RECENT

      ISLANDS SERIES
      SINCE 2020

      The Island series has been started during the lockdown. Occasionally I've realised that the time which I spent in a studio painting the seashore was perceived as a walk on the beach. So it has become the only possible way of travelling at that time and has been felt like a sea therapy.

      That's so great that in your reality you can transfer yourself to the place where you feel happy with a beautiful and peaceful view.

      Also they harmoniously blended with The Exotic Series of self-portraits.
      ALLEXANDRA. A Walk at the Sea
      ALLEXANDRA. Orient Express
      ALLEXANDRA. WAVES.
      ALLEXANDRA. Mountain
      ALLEXANDRA. A Walk
      ALLEXANDRA.
      ALLEXANDRA. Morning at the Sea
      ALLEXANDRA. Wind
      ALLEXANDRA. Morning

      GEOMETRY OF SKY SERIES
      SINCE 2013

      The Geometry of Sky series was born as a consequence of my Paris Art Residence trip. They were inspired by the beautiful and precise geometry of Le Versailles garden trees and La Defense skyscrapers.
      ALLEXANDRA. La Defense 1
      ALLEXANDRA. Le Versailles 3
      ALLEXANDRA. La Defense 2
      ALLEXANDRA. Le Versailles 2
      ALLEXANDRA. Le Versailles 1
      ALLEXANDRA. Geometry of Sky

      SUMMER
      SINCE 2014

      The Summer series started in 2014 inspired by Russian and European nature and vacation time
      ALLEXANDRA. Letovo 2
      ALLEXANDRA. Lost Earring
      ALLEXANDRA. Letovo
      ALLEXANDRA. Euridyce
      ALLEXANDRA. In Summer
      ALLEXANDRA. Summer
      ALLEXANDRA. Midsummer dream
      ALLEXANDRA. Feet in the Clouds

      TRAVELLING SERIES
      SINCE 2011

      Travelling always inspires me. New impressions and experiences, unfamiliar places and strangers who become friends
      ALLEXANDRA. North sea. Day
      ALLEXANDRA. North sea. Night
      ALLEXANDRA. Exit to the Nord sea
      ALLEXANDRA. Holland. Day
      ALLEXANDRA. Before Christmas. Antwerpen
      ALLEXANDRA. My May
      ALLEXANDRA. Baobabs. Day
      ALLEXANDRA. Baobabs. Night
      ALLEXANDRA. Jurmala
      ALLEXANDRA. Evening. Antwerpen
      ALLEXANDRA. Paradise Tree
      ALLEXANDRA. North Sea

      PARIS SERIES
      SINCE 2012

      The Paris series we launched during my internship in the residence for the artists in the Cite Internationale des Arts in 2012. New friends from different countries and various creative fields, French lessons, parties and exhibitions, amazing architecture and gardens, lots of museums, wonderful food and wine, love and magic in the air.
      ALLEXANDRA.Dimanche petit dejeuner avec un nouvel ami
      ALLEXANDRA. The door to Tuileries
      ALLEXANDRA.
      ALLEXANDRA. Before the Party
      ALLEXANDRA. Invitation
      ALLEXANDRA. Pont Neuf
      ALLEXANDRA. Sun-Moon
      ALLEXANDRA. Breakfast
      ALLEXANDRA. Le Louvre
      ALLEXANDRA.Dimanche petit dejeuner avec un nouvel ami
      ALLEXANDRA. Kevin and Jennifer
      ALLEXANDRA. Midnight in Paris
      ALLEXANDRA. Nature Morte Bleu
      ALLEXANDRA. Viens
      ALLEXANDRA. Automne Parisien
      ALLEXANDRA. Night in Paris
      ALLEXANDRA. Le Soir
      ALLEXANDRA. Autumn. Paris
      ALLEXANDRA. Breakfast on the Grass
      ALLEXANDRA.Dimanche petit dejeuner avec un nouvel ami
      ALLEXANDRA.
      ALLEXANDRA.
      ALLEXANDRA. Before the Party
      ALLEXANDRA. Invitation
      ALLEXANDRA. Pont Neuf
      ALLEXANDRA. Sun-Moon
      ALLEXANDRA. Breakfast
      ALLEXANDRA. Le Louvre
      ALLEXANDRA. Kevin and Jennifer
      ALLEXANDRA. Midnight in Paris
      ALLEXANDRA. Le Soir
      ALLEXANDRA. Nature Morte Bleu
      ALLEXANDRA. Viens
      ALLEXANDRA. Automne Parisien
      ALLEXANDRA. Night in Paris
      ALLEXANDRA. Autumn. Paris
      ALLEXANDRA. Breakfast on the Grass

      THEY SERIES
      SINCE 2011

      The THEY series were my pass card to the Moscow Artists's Union.
      Also 5 of these paintings became a part of the interior of the conference halls of the hotel Intercontinental Moscow Tverskaya
      ALLEXANDRA. On suitcases
      ALLEXANDRA. Invasion
      ALLEXANDRA . Vacation on Madagascar
      ALLEXANDRA. Mind the Gap
      ALLEXANDRA. ON
      ALLEXANDRA. They
      ALLEXANDRA. Breakfast on the Grass

      ARBOR MUNDI POLYPTICH
      Installation comprises:
      The mosaic polyptych (30 pieces), oil on canvas, 250x300cm (50x50cm each) on the wall.

      The video installation (located 4 metres from the polyptych) – the same size as polyptych (250x300cm) projected from the same wall to a rear projection screen of plexiglass +a photo camera connected with a photo button that could be pressed by the audience while they are standing in front of a polyptych in the same position as Adam and Eve have at the artworks (represented in the video)

      The new video about Arbor Mindi in XXI century has been created with those photos.
      Time: The 3 min slideshow of the first people - Adam and Eve of different authors, times and media in front of the polyptych


      ARBOR MUNDI
      Concept

      From the beginning of human history, people have felt that they are not alone in the universe. There is something above us: higher reason, nature, God or something else. Something that could hardly be explained. Maybe higher forces observe us and show us their presence.
      In every culture, people try to explain phenomena of nature through images which could be intelligible to them.

      By researching the mythology of different nations, we note the uniqueness and the unity of their understanding of the world in ancient times. It's like the same story, told by different people, which acquires special details because of each person's personality, location, and experience but still reflects the same core.

      The story about Adam and Eve and The Paradise Tree (The World Tree, Arbor Mundi, The Tree of Life) is one of the most ancient stories in the world. The Tree of Life could be an apple tree or a palm, an oak or a sequoia, an antiar or a sycamore. The first people made of clay or dust have various names and skin colours.

      MOSAIC BABY PAINTINGS
      SINCE 2018

      Mosaic Baby Paintings are numerous of tiny independent paintings which could assembled together as a puzzle in numerous ways each and every of them would be correct:
      Puzzle falling into place. Anyways

      THEATRE BACKGROUND
      2004 – 2019

      My student time in GITIS – Russian Academy of Theatre Arts was a real happiness.

      I am very lucky to have such great teachers as famous painters Natalya Nesterova and Evgeny Vakhtangov, who influenced a lot on my desire to take up painting.

      Since 2004 our course of set designers directed by the artist Dmitry Krymov has got involved into theatre experiments, which developed into the Experimental Artists Theatre Laboratory and created 3 performances. All 3 have participated in numerous theatre festivals in Russia and abroad.
      One of them Demon. The view from above was on the stage till 2019.

      Also we have been engaged in different kind of activities: art actions, workshops, performances, happenings and expositions.

      | NOT-YET-FAIRY-TALES | 2004 |

      | As a member of Dmitry Krymov Laboratory |
      | 2004 – 2006 |

      Directed by Dmitry Krymov
      http://www.krymov.org/performances/nedoskazki/

      The performance participated in:

      International art fair of modern art Art Manezh 2004

      The 6th Raduga International Festival | St.Petersburg, 2005 |

      The 7th International KUKART Festival | St.Petersburg, 2005 |

      Russian Act 2006 – FeEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Arts | London, 2006 |

      Golden Mask Festival: "Not-Yet-Fairy-Tales" nominated for the
      "Innovation/Experiment" award | 2006 |

      | My roles | 2004 | Babka | Dedka | Babka1/2 | Devochka |

      | Sir Vantes. Donkey Hot | 2005 |

      | As a member of Dmitry Krymov Laboratory |
      | 2005 – 2017 |

      Directed by Dmitry Krymov
      http://www.krymov.org/performances/ser_vantes_donk...

      The performance participated in:

      The 7th Raduga International Festival | St.Petersburg, 2006 |
      Gran-Prix and Critics Prize

      Laureate of Stanislavsky award

      Russian Act 2006 – FeEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Arts | London, 2006 |

      Midwinter Night's Dream | Tallinn 2006, 2010 |

      Golden Mask Festival: nominated for the "Innovation/Experiment" award | 2007 |

      Performances and workshops in Colgate University & Columbia University, Barnard Theatre
      | Broadway, New York, USA 2007 |

      Festival of Helsinki 2008 "Stage"

      Golden Mask in Latvia 2015 | Riga, Latvia |


      | Demon. The view from above | 2006 |

      | As a member of Dmitry Krymov Laboratory |
      | 2006 – 2019 |

      Directed by Dmitry Krymov
      http://www.krymov.org/performances/demon_vid_sverk...

      The performance participated in:

      The Theatrical Spiderweb festival

      The "Territory" contemporary art festival

      The laureate of national awards - Crystal Turandot for the best stage direction

      The Golden Mask Performing Arts Festival | 2008 |
      The Experiment nomination laureate

      GIFT - Georgian International Festival of Arts in Tbilisi
      Georgia 2016
      THE MUSEUM DAY IN TRETYAKOV GALLERY
      2007
      A perfomance of Dmitry Krymov Set Design students.
      Creating a "tryptych" inspired by the painting by Alexandra Exter "Venice"
      2 pieces called "Moscow" & "Saint Petersburg"
      PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL 07
      11th International Competitive Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture - Prague Quadrennial 07
      The Grand-Prix Golden Triga for the Best Presentation of a Theme:
      Russia - Creating of the Russian exhibition hall.
      Member of the group of authors
      MIDWINTER DREAM FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
      2010 – 2011
      A New Year Performance of Dmytry Krymov Lab in Tallinn City Theatre
      Filmed by Fedor Kudryashov
      ALLEXANDRA | EXHIBITIONS
      SINCE 2013

        ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE
        2023
        Venice
        240 works from all over the world are the finalists of the 16th and 17th editions of the contest,
        giving a glimpse into the current state of international contemporary art.
        The exhibition takes place in the prestigious spaces of the Arsenale of Venice.
          ALLEXANDRA was represented in the ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE finalists exhibition in a CATEGORY Digital Art with the work THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW MOON which was made in Virtual Reality using Google Tilt Brush. It was chosen for the 16 edition of Arte Laguna
          https://artelaguna.world/virtualart/the-journey-to-the-new-moon-gif/

          The surface of a new planet The New Moon was created in 3D VR space and then documented with a camera tool.

          The reason why a new planet was named The New Moon is in its similarity with the real Moon by their physical parameters such as mass, volume and radiuses.

          The project raise the questions about the nature of exploration of human beings and also who and how will greet us as aliens from the other galaxy in the outer space and will they be happy about intentions of humanity to settle down in their planet.

          A WALK AT THE SEA
          2022
          The Ship class "LUXE" "Alexander Grin", MOSTURFLOT cruise, Russia
            "ART IN MOVEMENT"


            Mosturflot X ANO Cultural Bridge "Traveling Exhibitions X ZHGIVALEVA MARINA and ALLEXANDRA

            From June 6 to June 12, the LUXURY class ship "Alexander Grin" will make a thematic "Artistic Cruise" along the route: Moscow - Uglich - Yaroslavl - Kostroma - Plyos - Rybinsk - Myshkin - Kalyazin - Dubna - Moscow.
            The trip will take place as part of a joint project of the Moscow River Shipping Company and ANO Cultural Bridge "Traveling Exhibitions" with the support of the Russian Academy of Arts, called Art in Motion. Exhibitions of paintings will once again open on board the ship.
            This time the guests of the cruise will be
            ZHGIVALEVA MARINA from Yaroslavl and ALLEXANDRA (Alexandra Osipova) from Moscow.
            The artists will present their works, as well as engage in plein-air painting at the ship's moorings, where they will share their creative secrets.

            ZHGIVALEVA MARINA is a participant of more than 100 Russian, foreign and international exhibitions. Her paintings sparkle with warm tones, as if painted by the rays of the sun. The master's works are presented in galleries around the world: Finland, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, China, Japan, Belgium, Spain and the USA.

            ALLEXANDRA (Alexandra Osipova) - finalist of the 16th international art competition "ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 21.22" in Venice. The artist's canvases are literally woven from bright colors and clear shapes. The paintings of this master are in private collections in Russia, France, Belgium, Ukraine and Latvia.

            After all, art is not only the movement of a brush on a canvas, but also the movement of our ship along a meandering riverbed.
            We invite you to join us on an "Art Cruise" aboard our ship.

            SUMMER FOREVER
            Summer Forever opens on the 1st of March – at the end of the Russian winter, when everyone is tired from the cold and began to dream about the summer. Nevertheless, snow and -25 degree weather reign outside the
            window.

            The 5-D LIVE installation MAZE LOST&FOUND becomes the landmark of the exposition space, interacting with the audience on different levels: visual, audio, kinesthetic, olfactory, cultural, symbolic and emotional.
            The readymade "lost" objects and small-size paintings are integrated in the live-grass and blossoming flowers environment. The live-grass-maze recalls a verdant hedge labyrinth with its long history in garden design
            and, at the same time, a children's play. The core message of the installation involves evolving and changing, which reflect the everlasting circle of life.

            Some of the objects (a lost earring, a shuttlecock) have their twins in the summer paintings that surround the installation. The sense of eternal summer is strengthened by the video of the first people interpreted by different artists from different times and techniques (painting, graphics, fresco, sculpture) in a Paradise garden.

            ARBOR MUNDI
            2017
            Open Club Gallery | Moscow
              ARBOR MUNDI presents new works by Alexandra Osipova. Blossoming flowers are painted in ample detail and the composition is done in the style of macro photography. The point of view on the object is "from the bottom up," which in its turn fills the bigger part of the space and has its explicit shape on a neutral background, which is intended to highlight the minute details of the plant.

              The conception of the exposition in Open Club Gallery is focused on its main piece — a polyptych called ARBOR MUNDI. In this project, the artist reconsiders a mythological archetype, which incarnates the universal concept of the world.

              Alexander Salenkov

              NOVEL IN PAINTINGS. FEET IN THE CLOUDS
              2017
              RETROSPECTIVE
              Theatre of Dramatic Art, Moscow, Russia
                Alexandra Osipova's exhibit, "Novel in Paintings. Feet in the Clouds," unites 10 series of paintings created by the artist over the last 7 years.
                The story is set in various places: Paris, Antwerp, the deserted beaches of Jurmala, a small town on the Spanish seashore, the North Sea dunes in Knokke and the summer in Moscow's suburbs. As in a literary novel,
                it has leading and supporting characters, landscape descriptions, lyrical digressions and philosophical musings.

                Alexandra's painting is akin to graphic art, with clear and bright colors. The details are interesting and carefully selected, and its autobiographical nature echoes Pablo Picasso's idea that painting is just another way of
                keeping a diary.
                "Alexandra Osipova discovered her individual figurative painting style, where the scenographer's understanding of action and tempo-rhythm meets the painter's comprehension of the plane. The logic of forceful splashes of color and the collation of contrasts and consonances, volumes and planes impart an intention to the image and keep the viewer's attention. The artist's methods are the keys to recognizing her visual language, which works on the creation of an artistic image and an emotion."

                Honoured Cultural Worker of Russia, Lubov Lapteva

                Art Shopping
                2013
                Art Fair
                Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

                  ALLEXANDRA IN THE INTERIOR
                  SINCE 2012

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