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            www.irinayanikova.com

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Belgian artist, born in Moscow (Russian Federation), has lived and worked in Liège (Belgium) for many years.

Studies at the Pedagogical University of Moscow, Faculty of Geography & Foreign Languages.

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Self-taught for photography and digital art but has benefited from the advice of great Russian and American photographers.

Three areas of creation: photography, digital images and scannography.

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Systematically uses contemporary media such as dibond, metal, etc. for artistic or design applications.

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Personal exhibitions

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2010-2012 - JIRRAS Collection, Liege

2014 June - Liège, Bd. Piercot – private collection

2014 September - Brussels, Avenue de la Chevalerie – private collection

May 2015-March 2016 – Battice, Restaurant Au Vieux Logis

2015 August - Liège, Cointe – private collection

2016 May - Brussels, Avenue de Tervueren – private collection

2017 – Office Vincent Burton, Liège

April 2018 - Paddocks F 1 Circuit Spa Francorchamps

2019 April - ART3F Luxembourg International Art Fair

December 2019:  PAX Bookstore, Liège

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Collective exhibitions

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2010-2012 - virtual exhibitions, various specialized "photo" sites

2012 May - Belgium Liège The Free Society of Emulation

2013 July - Italy - Torano (Carrara) in duet with the sculptress V.Roland

2014 August -Montmartre to Dinant

2015 March - Festival of Cultures, Luxembourg

2015 September - Artisalie - Digital Arts, Liège

2016 December – Vibrant Metal, Liège

2018 April - La Ciotat (France)

2018  December- Lux Art Fair, Art Magna Federation, Luxembourg

2019 July - August - Gallery 34 rue Blaes (Sablon), Brussels

August 2020 - International Contemporary Art Fair, Fontvieille, Monaco

October 2021 - Espace Baffroi, Paris XI, France

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Artistic approach

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"Everything is simple in my case. No need for exotic travels to inspire me. The idea comes to me and I start to realize it. It happens the same way with all my creations: if I knit, if I tinker , whether I create my digital images or write articles for my friends. So it all starts in my head. It's my reality - the idea is always primary. I always start like that.

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Only one condition is important for me: it is my personal peace of mind. Without this tranquility I can be a beautiful housewife but not an artist.

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So when my idea and my state of mind go well together - I do great things. Yes yes. It is important to specify it: my goal - it is to make really beautiful things, even if they are objects of recovery and recycling. Even my photos or pictures as usual - these are decorative items. If I summarize in two words:  I seek and find beauty everywhere and try to create it myself.

Maybe it's not very fashionable, but I think now there are already so many horrors in the world that once in a while our eyes, our brains and our bodies just have to have their little pleasures , and not always observe wars, corpses, blood and political games.

I regularly attend exhibitions and contemporary art fairs and I  see that alongside what exists, there is a place for me...

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I don't give up and I don't stop. I am full of ideas and look with great optimism to my future. And I explain why below.

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Because in addition to the ideas that come to me very often, new printing technologies are appearing and I am always looking for labs that innovate, even beyond borders . Digital art and modern photography do not exist without software and technology.

Already now I mainly print on modern supports (dibond, aluminium, plexi, etc). I tried to print my designs on silk for scarves and I will continue with the collaboration of Italian workshops. Walls, furniture, clocks, coasters, trinkets, etc. - I want and will decorate everything. Maybe in a few months I'll try upholstery and rugs. I made several table tops with my images. I found the signs that can be printed for use in showers, kitchens, even directly in swimming pools - it greatly expands my possibilities to advance in the use of my images for design.

Finally, I present to you in the appendix examples of the three main axes of my creation: scannography,  digital illusion and photography."
 

You can also discover many examples of creation on my Facebook page:

https:/www.facebook.com/irinayanikova.art.design

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