Julia BIEN (Bezshtanko).
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
Graphics, sculpture, objects
March 24 - April 23, 2005

Name of the exhibition was not invented and reproduces literally a concept existing in physics. One day Julia Bien took physical reference book and has found out the fact that abstruse terms, formulas and their interpretation unusually exactly reflect what she does and with what she works. If separate layers of matter move in "physical" phenomena on certain conditions, Julia carries palpable feelings, thoughts and experience of individual in visible structures.

The artist shows various emotions and states of people through rhythmic drawing of watercolor, tempera painting and collages from scorched paper, which are connected (as in the the literal sense so in metaphorical one) with changing of day and night, seasons and other event-significant phenomena of life. Vibrations of lines and color spots, scorched fragments of paper compose expressively strained graphic texts.

Transport phenomena of another form occur in three-dimensional works of the artist. In the first case Julia inserts reminiscences of images of classic art in her sculptures and objects. Their transformations denote sharply changes happening to today's individual. In another case basis of objects is composed from wire skeleton displaying hollow internal space ('directional mass transfer' on language of transport phenomena in physics). Use of offbeat kinds of material (syntepon, silicone, lino, paraffin, such components as shoe, sandal or lamps) allows to the artist to strengthen impressions and core aspect of art work.

Svetlana SHLYAPNIKOVA