Igor Novikov
“All that is comfortable is an obstacle to art “, «Все удобное мешает искусству»Vasily Sukshin The artist Igor Novikov distances himself from the idea of dispassionate fine art oriented around aesthetics. “I want to portray contemporary time,” -says the artist, and real-life experience permeates through his vibrant, eclectic, wall spanning compositions. 30 of such paintings […]
Erik Bulatov in Swiss Collections
«Art&Signatures» offers Pierre-Henri Jaccaud‘s (Director of “Skopia” Gallery, Geneva) article about Erik Bulatov. Bulatov’s six meter paintings «Forward» were recently shown at Unlimited 2025 at Art Basel artfair : BULATOV AND THE SWISS Zurich-Bern-Moscow 1988. A context. An influential man. Switzerland, for historical, geographical and economic reasons, has been a country of refuge and a hub […]
Interview with Alexander Pogorzhelsky
Artist Alexander Pogorzhelsky about his projects «Folk Embroidery Motifs» and «Forgotten Ancestors»: Irina Vernichenko, » Art&signatures»: How do images emerge? Alexander Pogorzhelsky: It’s actually a very step-by-step process. Yes, for me the image is above all. Often, the search for this image takes quite a long time, but once it’s formed, I try to complete the […]
Review of Art Geneve 2025
“ Painting has got ahead of other arts…modern art has left the walls, tapestries, and decorative urns to enclose itself within a frame, nourished, filled with facts, free from figuration that distracts , it lands itself to meditation.“ Le Corbusier, «Vers une architecture» «Art Geneve 2025» art fair has brought together 81 Swiss and […]
Nicolas de Staël at Fondation de l’Hermitage
«A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves,” Marcel Proust If Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) was a novelist he would be Marcel Proust. Proust’s «atmospheric», long, modernistic descriptions of Combray and Giverny resemble Nicolas de Staël’s idyllic landscapes from the recent exhibition at Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne. Repetition and perfection in de Staël’s […]
AI is a Wonderful Conversationalist and a Master
Meet Natalia Klimchuk, creative director, creator of the graphic design agency “Bang! Bang!”, the design-studio and journal “Lunatum”, film director. Nataliya discusses contemporary graphic design and AI with Art&signatures’s Irina Vernichenko. Irina Vernichenko: How do you view Russian design from Milan, the capital of design? Nataliya Klimchuk: I have been thinking a lot about the identity of […]
Bill Viola, Artist of Video Art
Irina Vernichenko, “Art &signature’s” interviewed Aleksandra Danilova, curator and Director of the Sector of the Western art at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum to find out more behind Bill Viola’s videoart. Irina Vernichenko: The exhibitions of Bill Viola were recently showed at Palazzo Reale, in Milan (11 — 06. 2023) and in the Pushkin Museum […]
Forward-Looking Contemporary Art, Art Basel 2023
Irina Vernichenko from «Art &signatures» offers a review of Art Basel ( June 2023), the most intresting art event of the summer. Though contemporary art has taken many forms, it always follows one categorical imperative, that is to move forward. Paintings, decorative panels, installations, sculptures and other “consumer durables” that were shown by galleries at […]
“On the Road to Samarcand” Exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris
«Art&signatures» offers a review of «On the Road to Samarcand»exhibition, written by art historain Anna Bronovitskaya «An exhibition of a little known, but enchanting culture is on view at the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris: “Sur les Routes de Samarcande, Merveilles de Soie et d’Or”( 23.11 2022 – 4.06 2023). Over 300 pieces of embroidery, carpets, […]
Australian Aboriginal Art at Foundation Burkhardt- Felder
This article is contributed to ArtDecision by Theresa Burkhardt-Felder. Theresa Burkhardt- Felder and her husband are the founders of the Foundation Burkhardt-Felder Arts and Culture and run an Australian Aboriginal Art Museum in Môtiers, Switzerland: Why and since when do we have this passion for Australian Aboriginal art? Once we had established ourselves in Australia in the […]
