Le Regard - 2 (2004) Painting by Macha Volodina

She signs her works Macha. She is Russian, the daughter of an artist, the granddaughter of a painter, a musician, she was an actress and above all a singer, before devoting herself exclusively to painting.
She wrote her songs, poems in the tradition of Vissotsky, herself to music that had a vitality to shake your soul for a long time and sang them most often during clandestine concerts. She already knew the magic of words and commitments that bring people, nations and cultures together. She published her poems in the magazine "Junost" and the magazine "Znamia", the most important literary magazines at the time of the Perstroika. On tour, she frequented the traveling people. She already shared a bit of their way of life and their unique world view.

Having arrived in France in the early 90s, she worked, initially as an actress at the Théâtre du Soleil, then in the set-making workshop and thus learned the most varied techniques that she uses today in her work as a painter. She also met Matéo Maximoff and linked her life to that of the Roma by marrying a gypsy musician, as if she could not break with that part of herself at the time when she decided to devote herself to painting.

From the beginning of the new millennium, she devoted herself solely to painting, a language that allowed her to express herself without getting bogged down by escaping the labyrinthine traps of language, or more precisely by giving them a very particular visual form.
The most important thing for Macha is freedom, the freedom she takes with materials, with techniques, the freedom she gives herself with the themes that haunt her works. Because painting, for her, is not a gesture dedicated to the ephemeral, but on the contrary, it is a gesture made to last. The complex world of visions and emotions, once inscribed on the canvas or the wooden support, must be able to access the eternity promised by a regulated mastery of art. This mastery is one of the characteristics of Macha's work, the most invisible however, but which obsesses her because she paints so that her works cross time. by jean-Louis Poitevin, art critic, courator.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1964
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists