Nella città colorata (2019) Painting by Lidia Tchoumakova

Lidia Tchoumakova was born in Berlin to Russian parents. She lived and studied in Moscow, where she graduated in foreign languages.

Attracted by Italian beauty and art, she moved to Milan, where she began her artistic journey. In the atelier of the painter Adriano Fossà, she specialized in drawing and oil painting; with the painter Luigi Zucchero, she practiced the watercolor technique.

He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has held personal exhibitions in Milan, Gallarate, Somma Lombardo, Novara, Robbio.

He currently resides in Robbio Lomellina where he has his studio.

"The first impression one gets from Lidia Tchoumakova's works concerns color. Before graphic form, she entrusts the choice of colors to the evocation of the atmosphere, from time to time serene, brilliant, sophisticated, sensual.

The description of the subjects passes through different techniques of drafting the image on the support, sometimes mixed in the same painting, sometimes univocal to emphasize the character of the representation, now dreamy, now dynamic and cheerful. Sometimes cloudy, but vital. Never dull, flat or listless.

Descriptive contrasts sometimes appear in the mix of the search for detail contradictorily cloaked in a patina of indefiniteness, capable of permeating the scene with veiled nostalgia ...

Certain intensity of his vision of city or landscape glimpses, made up of chromatic intensifications, reflections or sometimes clouding, give the scenes a license of originality and depth that always solicits a reflection in the observer, absorbing their attention beyond the purely descriptive data. of the scene represented. Which is never static and draws a sense of vitality from the details that animate it and from the pictorial gesture, which is itself lively and attentive.

What about his women, full of character, fickle, permeated and framed in an explosion of colors, always brilliant. Set against abstract backgrounds intended to be evocative and symbolic. But above all Byzantine, to retrieve the refined formation of its Russian origins. Byzantine yet sensual, as only certain Mediterranean characters can be. A demonstration that the fusion of such different cultures can give rise to unexpected and surprising syntheses.

Likewise the nudes. Whatever the chosen technique, from pastel to oil, to acrylic. A universe apart from the rest of her production, in which the painter once again shows that she wants to recover the roots of her culture, both East and Central European. Probably the most original and innovative side of his work. Certainly what characterizes her originality as an author. "

Pierluigi Surace

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value,
• Groups: Certified Artists Contemporary Italian Artists