FineArt Gallery presents Elena Kovylina's painting series «Parallel Games» 

«Parallel games» are partial or fragmentary images of numerous game scenarios of the cultural matrix, united by paradoxical associations and plot discrepancies. In her project, Elena Kovylina tried to reproduce such a picture of the world, which combines disparate textbook and at first glance hackneyed motifs in a completely different interpretation: in orbit, an astronaut meets a chimera, a Snow Maiden poses against a UFO background, Ivan Tsarevich kidnaps a princess on a gray motorcycle, and not on a gray wolf, as in Vasnetsov's painting, an iPhone this is the mirror from the fairy tale of A.S. Pushkin's "About the dead Princess and the Seven Heroes."

The painting series was shown early in the framework of the Elena Kovylina Artifacts and Gadgets project, a large-scale study of the origins of decorative and applied art on the basis of the VDMPI, and visited, in addition to Moscow, Yoshkar-Ola, Cheboksary, Belgorod and Zelenodolsk, being exhibited in state national museums. The development of technology, the theory of the matrix and games, today are able to explain the phenomenon of magic described in folk tales and myths, which are nothing more than a reflection of archetypal images of past technological civilizations, seeping into the present.

Elena Kovylina is a Russian artist, curator and art critic, whose main artistic media are performance, actionism, digital art and painting. E. Kovylina joined the trend of modern art in the early 1990s after her studies at the Moscow State Art Museum and MGAKHI named after V.I. Surikov, and since 1999 Elena has become a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Elena Kovylina is a laureate of the Innovation Prize in the field of contemporary art (2006), a laureate of the Russian Academy of Arts "Against the Current" (2014), a Master of Art Studies at the Russian State University, a nominee of the Kandinsky Prize (2007), as well as the author is an invited speaker and participant in many biennales of contemporary art both in Russia and abroad. abroad.