ANNA FRANTS’ PERSONAL EXHIBITION “STORM IN A TEA GLASS” AT RSUH

On February 19, at the Museum Center of MSHU, there will be the opening night of Anna Frants’ solo exhibition Storm in a Tea Glass that will showcase her works from various years.

Works by Anna Frants – animations, video art, installations – that could be seen at the exhibition Storm in a Tea Glass create a special atmosphere and immerse the spectator in a world of associations. A paradox is a frequent technique in Anna’s art regardless of the media that she uses. The artist juxtaposes the old and the new, the expected and the unknown, history and present and evokes an emulative thinking in us. Her work Storm in a Tea Glass, whose title gave the name to this exhibition, is an image of the creative storm that rages inside an artist.

Anna Frants creates an environment with which we can identify. For this purpose, she uses various technologies: light, sound, video projections. For instance, In the Shade of an Olive Tree is intended to move us to “Greece where specks of light on the marble of an ancient sculpture play in the same way as they do on your hand caught in a beam from the projector,” as the artist explains it. Window Sash employs the same idea to transport the spectator into his or her own world of memories and associations – but with a projector, not natural light. As spectators, we know that we are in a unique experience conditioned by a work of art and therefore do not take our feelings at their face value, but make them into metaphors even before we experience them. Works of Anna Frants it is this kind of safety, which allows us to experience momentary discomfort, but not real panic.

Anna Frants is a multimedia artist who lives in New York. She was born in St. Petersburg. In 1989, she graduated from the Mukhina Art Academy where she received a classical education, and then she expanded the range of her interests by exploring such new fields and the computer imagery and animation.
Her achievements reflect a broad spectrum of artistic interests. Anna received several awards for the best 3-D computer animation at prestigious computer-graphics competitions (for instance, the AutoDesk Planet Studio Award). She curates and participates in art exhibits in the USA and Russia, teaches media disciplines and animation and publishes articles on art. Her works are in the Museum of Art and Design in New York and in private collections.

 

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