New Mythology: Olga Tobreluts Solo Exhibition

About

Many believes that mythologies are often related to being old-fashioned and ancient stories, "New Mythology" introduces the audience a new definition. Myths are not only limited to Zeus, Romulus or the Chinese dragon but also Japanese manga, sci-fi stories and urban legends. Starting from 21st Century, people adapt and at the same time evolve all new kinds of interpretation in languages, sounds and viduals. The fast-growing technologies and overflowing information make people craving for more and more, are never satisfied. Interesting is, regardless how the evolution is progressing, the familiar ancient or traditional smell is never going to evaporate. Analysing the past, new progression is always a recomposition of the traditions.

Born in 1970, Russian artist Olga Tobreluts, who is well-known internationally as a pioneering media artist and a creator of massive video installations. Olga picked up modern computer technologies as a medium in the 1990s and she quit painting to focus on computer graphics combined with photography and 3D models. Since 1994, she has been a member of the New Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, a community of Neo-Academism artists. Olga makes good use of new media as a tool to transform the classics to a work of modern time. In early 1990s, Olga created the "Model" series featuring some antique popular figures with modern fashion designers clothes. Later on in 1999, she created the "Sacred" series featuring ancient portraits with new faces. These series brought Olga numerous international awards and these images were featured in different publications like ART, ATTITUDE, Flash Art, ArtReview, Vanity Fair and many other more.

Olga's works have been widely exhibited in well-known institutions and museums such as Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, Tate Modern in London and The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Her latest museum exhibition was organised at the Ludwig Museum in Hungary. Olga also had many museum exhibitions around the world including the UK, the US, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Sweden and Norway. Her works have been aquired by important collections namely The STate Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, MoMA in New York, Ludwig Museum, Centre of Contemporary Art in Germany and Wolfgang Joop Foundation. Olga returned to painting as her artistic medium in 2003 and she focuses on recovering ancient painting techniques as well as discovering the chemical composition of pigments in her artworks.

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