LandEscape meets
Julia Vergazova An interview by Josh Ryder and Katherine Williams landescape@europe.com
Julia Vergazova's paintings reflect the tradition as a permanent interplay between inscrutability and beauty: her careful approach conveys memories in a multilayered, colorful experience that invites the viewers to a joyful experience. Conveying Realism and Abstract Expressionism in a lively and consistent combination, her works keep independence from the context they explore, so the colorful paintings that we'll discuss in the following pages can be viewed as an aesthetic testing ground for the autonomy of painting and its historicity. I'm particularly pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating artistic production. Hello Julia, and welcome to LandEscape: to start this interview, would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training and you recently graduated with academic excellence from Penza Art College and moreover you travel a lot in Europe, and you draw inspiration a lot from its sunny weather: how does the combination of these experience influence your evolution as an artist?
Academic education allowed me to firmly master drawing, color and form perception and laws of composition. But education is not everything. It's important what exactly an artist wants to tell a viewer and what is goal she is trying to achieve,
Juerg Luedi