Irina Birouly
“Nowadays we lack a thing that can be called a creative love to the tired city and a skill to see its dignity in any weather and under any circumstances. And the theatre of the city created by Irina Biroulia compensates the shortage of this love. “
Ph. D. Professor
Member of International Association of critics (AICA)
- 1968 – Graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Music, Theatre and Cinematography.
Designed stage sets for more than 100 performances in Russia and abroad. - 1971 – Member of the Artists’ Union of Russia.
- 1992 – Member of the International Federation of Artists (IFA).
1944 – Born in Leningrad
Exhibitions
35 international personal exhibitions
- 997 – The “Grand prix” exhibition and the competition “The Window to the Netherlands”, Russia-Netherlands.
- Personal exhibitions
- 1990 – USSR, Leningrad, The Summer Garden
- 1990 – Finland, Solo, “Sininen Talo”
- 1990 – Finland, Turku, “Varission Kirjasto”
- 1991 – Indonesia, Jakarta. The first Soviet–Indonesian Art Exhibition
- 1991 – Italy, “Padova Fiere”1992 – Indonesia, Toman Mini
- 1993 – Russia, St. Petersburg, “Forum” Gallery
- 1995 – Denmark. Gallery “Ertebaelgen”
- 1996 – Cyprus, Paphos “Days of St. Petersburg Culture”
- 1997 – Russia, Moscow, The Fine Arts Institute
- 1998 – Cyprus, Nicosia, “Cultural Days of St. Petersburg”
- 1998 – Russia, Petrozavodsk, Art Center
- 1999 – Russia, St. Petersburg, “Palitra” Gallery
- 1999 – Cyprus, “Days of Russian Culture in Agia Napa”1999 – Germany. Gallery “ELITE”, Dresden
- 2000 – Russia, St. Petersburg
- 2000 – USA, Bostonlima Birolia’s works
Other Exhibitions in Russia
- Russia, St. Petersburg. State Russian Museum
- Russia, St. Petersburg. Museum of Theatre
- Russia, St. Petersburg Anna Akhmatova Memorial Museum FONTANNY DOM
- Russia, St. Petersburg. Museum of Bread
- Russia,St. Petersburg. Arts Diaghilev Centre
- Russia, Moscow. Museum of Theatre
- Russia, Moscow. Parliament–Centre
Other International Exhibitions
- Indonesia, Jakarte. National Gallery
- Belgium, European Parliament
- Netherlands, Prince of Orange Collection
- Netherlands, Heisden. Gallery of L. Zakirova
- South Korea, Seoul. “Jean art gallery”
- Armenia, Yerevan. Charity fund of Spuritual revival “Gougark”
- USA, Pennsylvania. Buckell University
- USA, Pennsylvania. The Reading Public Museum
- USA, New–York. Museum of Contemporary Russian Art
- Denmark, Ertebaelgen, Gallery “Ertebaelgen”
- Cyprus, Municipal Center (Paphos, Limasol)
Many other works are kept in private collections in the USA, Germany, Sweden, etc.
About the Artist
Painting in the best works by Irina Biriulia is a sacred craft. The colour scheme shows maximally restrained relations, however, when being scrutinized, the paintings fill with a strong but dimmed colour, and the objects acguire their own internal light.
The city on the canvas is born all over again wish a filigree severity. But it is neither its main entrance nor its prosaic backward. Most freguently it is a set of beloved small articles, romantic trifles of the city prose melted in the eternal and illusory beauty of the city. Nowadays we lack a thing that can be called a creative love to the tired city and a skill to see its dignity in any weather and under any circumstances. And the theatre of the city created by Irina Biroulia compensates the shortage of this love.
Ph. D. Professor. Member of International Association of critics (AICA)
About the Artist
Irina Bimulia is a theatre artist. Obviously, Irina Biroulia has a good taste with a special liking for large planes and walls. It is not quite accidentally that in her professional youth she used to dream about huge frescoes, white in the theatre has been enjoying painting vast theatre backdrops.
So there is logic in the fact that she has found a fascinating technical method such as making the priming of sand or ground which, thus, giving a rough grainy and vivid texture to the pictorial surface, which is similar to that of frescoes.