Exhibition. Aidan Salakhova. From the cycle "New Saints"

Aidan Salakhova is a famous Russian painter and sculptor, teacher, in the recent past, an active gallery owner and public figure. Her career in recent years has been marked by sharp turns and a decisive change in artistic landmarks, which did not prevent Aidan Salakhova from invariably remaining in the center of attention of the Moscow and the entire world creative audience.

The cycle "New Saints" presented at the exhibition was created by Aidan Salakhova quite recently. His idea was born in the Moscow hospital "Tsaritsyno", where the artist in 2020, upon returning from Italy, was in quarantine in the "red" zone. What he saw in the hospital was embodied in a series of paintings. Observing the work of doctors and admiring their dedication, Aidan Salakhova took numerous photographs and sketches, which were later used in the process of working on the New Saints series. Salakhova's heroines, who appear to the viewer as part of a kind of imaginary iconostasis, are impersonal and impersonal. However, their poses and gestures are expressive, which speak of the author's ability to choose the desired “freeze frame” in an endless stream of moments.

Seven works - five united in the cycle "New Saints" and two independent, but close to this cycle in design and time of creation - are part of the gift to the Russian Museum of the collector Vladimir Nekrasov, a longtime admirer of the talent Aidan Salakhova.