Abstract art in the understanding of the author should stimulate the conscious process of contemplation. It connects the artist’s process of making with a viewer’s experience of looking, both bases on deep concentration. Abstract art is to highlight the complex nature of seeing.

The work is to observe nature in the multiplicity of its dimensions, and transform personal observation of the world through the sequence of elements on the canvas.

The works of the artist are complex and laborous. Abstract geometric shapes are bright in colour with clear contours, which make them contrast against each other. Size and colour of each element of the ornament are carefully measured in order to achieve balance and contrast between them. The image in selected works under some observation process begins to vibrate, shimmer, move.

In some series the principle of geometric patterning such as infinite repetition and cyclical movement are used.

In the artistic practice of Marina Astakhova, geometric compositions with acrylic on canvas resonate with interior sculptures and panels made of wood. The artist’s work is characterized by a constant desire to experiment with artistic techniques and materials.

Lives and works in Moscow.

Galleries representation: AG Gallery (VinZavod Center of Contemporary art), InArt Gallery by Kseniya Podoynitsyna (Vinzavod Center of Contemporary art), RIVA Gallery, Moscow.

Marina Astakhova’s works are in the interiors of houses and offices in Russia, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, USA, Hong Kong, UAE, and were featured in AD Russia, Elle Decoration interior design magazines.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
2021 DETALI art school – abstract art workshop of Natalia Sitnikova.

2020 Moscow School of Contemporary Art, British High School of Art and Design – Practice and Theory of Contemporary Art

2010 – 2015 Workshop of painting and sculpture of Irina Krasnoshlykova