Orvieto. Italy (2022) Painting by Kristina Korò

Kristina was born in a small town in the Caucasus and began painting at an early age. She expresses her love for mountains and nature in her poetic landscapes, trying to convey the awe of the soul that the places she saw for the first time evoke. According to the artist, each landscape motive is a certain piece of music, with its own special melody and intonation. Pastel series created in 2016-2019 have become the first steps in what she gives, she devotes to the search for her style. The vertical stroke that fills the entire space of the work creates awe and vibration that serves as a way to convey state and feelings, but at the same time creates a decorative surface similar to a tapestry. Over the years, the vertical stroke in Christina's works grows into a point, she now gives her preference to oil, and the colorful surface of her last canvases begins to resemble a mosaic. The artist uses open, vibrant colors that blend optically like smalt pieces in a mosaic. The most interesting thing is that one of the first copies that Christina made as a child was a copy of the work of J. Signac. Since then, about 20 years have passed, many years of training in realistic painting have passed, but after going through the difficult path of traditions, she again returns to the method of color decomposition, to the method she met when she was 9 years old, the method used by pointillist artists. Now she is working on a project in which the surfaces of the canvases with their heroes are transformed into monumental images of mosaic panels, combining easel and monumental painting together.

Education and achievements:

Graduated in 2011 from the Russian State Pedagogical University SFedU, faculty of painting. In 2020 she graduated from SPBGAIZHSA, monumental painting. Participated in exhibitions of the Rostov Museum of Fine Arts (2012-2014), the St. Petersburg Union of Artists (2018), the Moscow Union of Artists (2019), the Pushkinogorsk Museum of Fine Arts (2015), the Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (2016-2017). In 2019 - personal exhibition at the Repin Institute. Personal exhibition at the Italian language center Italica (2019). Since January 2019 - a member of the Spanish pastel community ASPAS. Finalist of the ASPAS Pastel 2019 virtual pastel competition. Member of young artists of the French community Pastellistes de France. Participated in online exhibitions Artproject Maiami 2019 Artproject Zurich 2020. Works in the collection of the Pushkinogorsk Museum of Fine Arts, private collections in Russia and China.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1988
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists