Irina Kupyrova
Irina Kupyrova
Classically trained painter graduated from the prestigious Painting Faculty of the Kyiv State Academy of Fine Arts
Irina Kupyrova’s leisurely narratives take place on the borderline between the indoors and the outdoors, in the frame of the suggested window. The paint is lively and textured, but what shows through are the unexpectedly calm arrangements of figures and landscape, confident in their final appearance but hinting of a lengthy decision-making and many rejected options.
Women are always central to the work: never engaged, always contemplative, wearing their garments with casual neglect. They are confident but distant in their Modigliani-like stylization – the essence of feminine elegance synthesized into the painterly explorations of line and colour. There is an air of untroubled waiting about them that creates this particular state of stillness, allowing the artist to arrange the model’s long slim limbs according her aesthetic needs. Irina’s experience of the colour is sensual, almost physical – her artificial, but observant settings pick on the differences in tone between artificial and natural light, indoors and outdoors, conveying with a couple of side-to-side colour juxtapositions a rich experience of the impressionistic space. Irina Kupyrova graduated from the Painting Faculty of the Kiev State Academy of Fine Arts to continue her creative practice in Prague, Czech Republic. She exhibits in the Czech Republic and internationally, including her exhibitions in Germany, Spain, France, Belgium and Switzerland and art fairs in Barcelona, Dublin and Paris. Her work can be seen in Prague galleries and is held in private collections internationally.
My interest lies in a contemporary interpretation of a classical genre of figurative and still-life painting. I am interested in painting as a way to translate subtle differences between light and shade, indoors and outdoors; to create atmospheric arrangements reminiscent of leisurely summer afternoons and moody contemplative evenings.
The paintings, inspired by the aesthetics of Modigliani and Egyptian frescoes, are made on a strong canvas that I stretch and prime in my own technique as well as highest-quality oil paints. I am a classically trained painter, graduated from the prestigious Painting Faculty of the Kiev State Academy of Fine Arts to continue my creative practice in Czech Republic. While keeping up a regular exhibition activity in Czech Republic and internationally, including shows in Germany, Spain, France, Belgium and Switzerland, I find my creative base in my airy studio in Prague.
International Art Fairs in which Parcus Gallery exhibited Irina Kupyrova´s paintings:
- Affordable Art Fair Milan                    – Italy       25 – 27 January 2019
- International Contemporary Art Fair Ghent    – Belgium   26 – 29 September 2019
- Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt                 – Germany   29 October – 1 November 2020
- Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt                 – Germany   04 – 07 November 2021
- Affordable Art Fair Brussels                 – Belgium    23 – 27 March 2022
- Discovery Art Fair Cologne                  – Germany   28 April – 01 May 2022
- Parcus Gallery Exhibition Grieskirchen        – Austria    07 July – 06 August 2022
- FIA BCN Art Fair Barcelona                  – Spain      04 – 05 November 2022
- Affordable Art Fair Hamburg                 – Germany   09 – 13 November 2022
- Parcus Gallery Exhibition Torino              – Italy       03 – 18 February 2023
- Le Carrousel du Louvre Paris                – France     31 March – 02 Apr 2023
- Parcus Gallery Exhibition Roma              – Italy       23 May – 01 June 2023
- Parcus Gallery Basel – SOLO Exhibition      – Switzerland 27Jul – 30Sep 2023
Visit Project
Date
- May 10, 2018
