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A bright new international talent is bringing her work to London, where she will be launching her first UK exhibition at ART4 in Cromwell Place, South Kensington, in the gallery’s Room 11. The exhibition, “Restoration of Time,” will take place between March 12th, 2024, and will be on view until the 24th.
Liza Bobkova grew up in Soviet Russia, near the border with Latvia. The artist graduated from the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design in St. Petersburg, Russia’s oldest design school. In a city sparse in established museums or galleries, her style developed instead in the milieu of its lively underground micro-spaces. Bobkova’s art favors the pursuit of expression over direct messaging, with a flexible approach to materials that best suit her vision and chosen themes.
Her work seeks to explore the new shape of communication in the 21st century. The artist enjoys the creative use of unorthodox mediums, finding ways to re-express our familiar forms of communication. Through her art, Bobkova encourages a shift in perspective, unveiling the texture of a message or conversation in the new context of bold materials like metal and glass, either through total installation or acts of performance.
From videographic portraiture in “Presence Detection Methods” (2022) to engravings on window panes in “There Were 10 Sunny Days in January” (2019) or the scintillating wire sculptures of “Period of Oscillation” (2016), her work is ambiguous and often surprising, wherein the invisible aesthetic properties of an ordinary message become its defining features.
In 2023, Bobkova moved from Russia to London, where she opened ART4, London’s newest contemporary art gallery. For Bobkova, ART4 represents a chance to participate in the rich London market, an ecosystem of art and creativity on a scale that is new to the artist. She has been inspired by the work of her husband and gallery’s co-founder, Igor Markin, who is also the founder of ART4 museum – Moscow’s largest private contemporary art space.
The curation of ART4 gallery will echo Bobkova’s love of raw materials and specialized craftsmanship (Bobkova herself spent seventeen years as an artisan blacksmith), favoring artists that use classic earth materials to produce unfamiliar, contemporary art. There are two exhibitions planned for the spring and three for the autumn, alongside the gallery’s participation in international art fairs.
Bobkova’s new exhibition, “Restoration of Time,” continues her study on material and communication. It features two brand-new series of sculptural works, one in bronze and the other in porcelain. The bronze series comprises 30 etched and polished plaques, while the porcelain series features 18 asymmetric porcelain squares alongside a porcelain house of cards.
Bobkova utilizes these materials to explore our relationship with the linear progression of time. Both metal and ceramics undergo an arduous process of craftsmanship: porcelain is hand-rolled paper-thin and carefully fired to produce delicate sheets, while bronze is painstakingly engraved with abstract images transcribed from the sound waves of digital voice notes.
They maintain an air of fragility distinct from their rugged canvas, just as the porcelain house of cards instills an anxiety reflective of the unstable nature of the present moment. The artwork in both materials is indirect, and the interpretive work of the viewer plays a central role in its messaging. Their minimalist installation encourages contemplation of these deceptively simple pieces.
“I am glad that I did not stop at the direction that the academy gave me. Artists with a classical education often stop at the edge of Method… The most important thing is that we worked with real materials in our hands from the first days. This is the reason why I boldly paint sand in rainbow colors, paint fabrics, shoot films, do performances, polish and weld metal, sew shirts with my mom, create jewelry. I am free to explore different creative paths and extremely happy about it.” – Liza Bobkova
“I am delighted to support Liza in this new endeavor. I believe that she is a charismatic artist and curator who can develop a unique curatorial vision that would involve not only more diverse types of art in terms of materials used, but a diverse set of international artists.” – Igor Markin, Co-Founder
The exhibition will be on view in Cromwell Place’s Room 11 from March 13th to March 24th, 2024, with a private viewing on March 12th between 6-9 pm. For more information, please visit: www.art4.uk
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