Personal exhibition of Irina Eldarova “Hi, its Me”

Art Gallery
Ceremonial opening: 26 November 19:00 PM
Organizer: Irina Eldarova

I dreamt about making an exhibition like this.
I dreamt that a poster with the name of IRINA ELDAROVA would float over the city…
The opportunity came but having looked inside myself - I did not see anything but fear…
So where are your ideas?

Where are the images that you stumble over all the time – in the street, in your dream, when you are listening to the music or eating badymzhan dolmasy?
Where are you – 15, 22, 40… and so many years old?

I did not find a worthy answer to these questions to myself.
And I turned the handle of a heavy door with a PERSONAL EXHIBITION sign.
I had one condition for myself that I had to meet, one but it was mandatory: in order for the exhibition to be interesting to others, it has to be interesting for myself.
The exhibition is named symbolically – Hello! It’s me
The exhibition can be divided into several parts:
1. Plywood as it is. These are large-size works (152x152) for me (my height is 157).
What is in them? I don’t know. It is LOVE if I can put it in one word. Just see for youself.
2. Three works are made up of many small canvases (40x40).
They are: God! Keep America safe!; Poppies; Matches.
3. How can I describe the third part?
In general, this part is dedicated to men, those men who belonged to Humanity.
Winston Churchill, Nikita Khrushev, John F. Kennedy, Nicolas Sarkozy, and some other great men… Who are they? Who am I?
4. Some personal stuff. The city, the yellow skies, irons, a glass of water, lots and lots of hearts…
a lot from myself – personal…
5. Watercolours. This is a totally special part of the exhibition. And I like them.
In total, there are over 60 works – made from oil, acryl, watercolour, canvas, paper, plywood, cardboard – many of which are being exhibited for the first time.
I want to see myself – who is it – IRINA ELDAROVA?
I want to make your acquaintance, dear contemporaries.
I want you to meet me.
I have put the whole of myself as of today – nothing has been left.
Nonetheless, please, judge me strictly.

IRINA ELDAROVA
Irina Eldarova was born in Moscow in 1955. She graduated from the Moscow Secondary Arts School in 1974. She studied in the Arts Academy (Saint-Petersburg) and in the Arts Institute named after V.I.Surikov (Moscow) – in the professor Boris Dekhterev’s studio of book graphics. She worked as an State Publishing House of Children's Literature as an illustrator in Moscow starting from 1982.
She participated in many-many exhibitions in Azerbaijan, Russia, other CIS countries and abroad. She participated in the development of the artistic concept for State Books of Azerbaijan (2000), Kazakhstan (1999, 2000 and 2003) and Uzbekistan (2002), the Caspian magazine from 1995 up to now, the Loaded magazine (Russian edition) in 2003, the BOOM magazine (Russian edition) and many other international print magazines.
1988 – the Khalglar Dostlugu metro station (the project’s artist) She has been the art-director of the Caspian Publishing House Ltd. International publishing House since 1995.
She has been a member of the BAJ (British Association of Journalists) and a member of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan since 1996.
Together with Mouslim Eldarov (after his death) and Eldar Aghamalov, she received a prestigious award of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan for the best Media-Project which is the State Book of Kazakhstan edition.
She organized the Traditions and Modernity international photo contest named after Muslim Eldarov.
August 2006 – she participated in the International Visual Arts Festival in the framework of the Gyandzha artproject (supervised by Delyara Vagabova).
October 2007 – she participated in the XII International Art Symposium named “Art as Craft, Craft as Art” which took place in Sheki, Azerbaijan (supervised by Inna Kostina, Azerbaijan).
She participated in the International forum-exhibition named “To be a Woman” in May 2009 where she presented her work, the Common Life Chronicles Book (supervised by Sabina Shikhlinskaya and Delyara Vagabova).
Her first personal exhibition, Fire Worshippers, was held in the premises of the Baku Arts Center in 2007 (Baku, Azerbaijan).
Irina Eldarova’s works can be found in the collection of the Tretyakovskaya Gallery (Moscow), Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union, the Modern Art Museum (Baku, Azerbaijan), the Arts Museum named after Mustafayev, the Baku Arts Center, and are part of many private collections.