Elena Nenastina - artist, teacher, author of the book "The structure of the visual form of space and methods of its organization". Awarded the honorary Russian Federation government distinction of ‘Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation’; winner of the silver medal of Russian Academy of Arts, the silver medal of Russian Artists Association, the diploma of Russian Academy of Arts and other awards.
Elena graduated from the Moscow School of Decorative and Applied Arts and Moscow State University of Printing Arts. She works in her own artistic technique, using different media: acrylic, oil pastel and oil. Elena’s works include elements of abstraction, space deformation, metaphysical riddles, and her creativity is revealed mainly in the genre of landscape — lyrical and urban. Complex compositional moves of her paintings create a multidimensional image, and original textures add to the quality and animation of her artwork.
Now Elena works at the National Design Institute, where she teaches painting and composition, combining theory and practice - when studying the laws of composition, Elena gives her students tasks, which help them get acquainted with different types of space. As a result, they realize that a painting is not just a surface or an incoherent shape, but a certain form of configuration, deep or low, built according to rhythmic laws.
This work is reflected in Elena's book "The structure of the visual form of space and methods of its organization". The book is based on the study of the paintings of great masters of different times, as well as on experiments in her students’ pictures. All this information served to set up an online school for artists, art university professors, students and those, who are interested in the art. This school of thought, which is based on the study of the structure of space in paintings with the help of the theoretical works of such great masters as Vladimir Andreyevich Favorsky and Andrey Dmitrievich Goncharov, has become a discovery and a new language in art for many students.
Elena has taken part in more than 100 solo and collective exhibitions in Russia and abroad. One of her solo exhibitions has recently taken place in Dmitrov (Moscow region).
Currently, a large project of Russian Academy of Arts "In the Land of Emerald Buddha" is in progress. The project features 18 exhibitions, which are held in many cities of Urals, Siberia and Russian Far East. The final exhibition is expected to open in 2022 at the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow. In total, more than a hundred works of art dedicated to the culture and nature of Thailand are on display.
On 24 June, 2021, as part of this project, there was opened an exhibition, featuring Elena’s 15 artworks in the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts. All of the paintings were made while travelling in Thailand. The trip was organized by Russian Academy of Arts. "Our daily routine was the following - after breakfast we were taken to plein-air, and we worked all day long with a break for lunch. It was very interesting to see and feel the new, unusual and fairy-tale world of Thailand. The exhibition is called "In the land of Emerald Buddha" for a reason. Buddhas were here, there and everywhere, in large numbers, in different poses corresponding to the days of the week and of various sizes - from very small to huge ones, overlaid with gold and made of stone. Thailand is a world of wildlife, where stone islands float like ships in the Andaman Sea, where the water of life radiates light and happiness, where monkeys run and varans scurry, where there are so many fireflies that the air glows at night..."
Perhaps many people will be lucky enough to see these paintings in their own city. The cities where the exhibition is held are: Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Yakutsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok.
