Olga Hirsch Art
  • Who Am I?
  • My Anti-World
  • The White Room
  • Pilgrims, 2020
  • Nostalgia, 2014 - 2021
  • The Family Album
  • All About My Mother, 2019-2020
  • The Window
  • Mnemosyne, 2019
  • Beyond Time and Space
  • Fights Of Fancy
  • All In White
  • Quarantine Obsession 20
  • After Japan, 2018
  • Recent Illustrations
  • Time To Create Christmas
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The White Room

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                                                                                                                   To my Russian Roots
 
I left my native city of Moscow in 2011, carrying with me the historical and cultural memories  that inevitably shape the Russian psyche, forming the basis of a certain emptiness and hopelessness common to us all; my subject matter concerns what I have left behind.
 
As I child I was drawn to the empty space within a pictures. Years later, I realised that the ‘empty space’ is not empty but ‘open’. It is a void through which I pour my thoughts, memories, imagination, and my personality. Following the tradition of Russian Art, my project is an argument with Moscow Conceptualism;  in my work I open the ‘black square’ and use the unpredictability of the colour white as a‘window’, reachingtowards a sense of Russian Cosmism.
 
The White Room is an imaginative place which I come back to in my thoughts. I know that new people will live here and whitewash the walls. The paintings represent open windows;  through soft and light layers viewers may immerse themselves in fragments of my memories. The ‘musique concrète’ sound collage that accompanies the works lets the listener/viewer experience my forgotten city. The antique Viennese Chair represents a passing epoch and missing people.


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All and Around, 2018
Dedicated to Alexander Wustin, Russian composer (1943 - 2020)

Music composition, 22 min  / Musique concrete
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Coming Back, 2018
​Mixed media on canvas (acrylic paint, screen printing, collage) on canvas 137,5x215x3,5 cm
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  • Who Am I?
  • My Anti-World
  • The White Room
  • Pilgrims, 2020
  • Nostalgia, 2014 - 2021
  • The Family Album
  • All About My Mother, 2019-2020
  • The Window
  • Mnemosyne, 2019
  • Beyond Time and Space
  • Fights Of Fancy
  • All In White
  • Quarantine Obsession 20
  • After Japan, 2018
  • Recent Illustrations
  • Time To Create Christmas
  • About
  • Contact
  • Blog