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First Name | Olga |
Last Name | Gouskova |
Born | 1974-07-28 |
Country | Belgium |
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Often walking hand-in-hand with controversy is the sensual female form, and 32-year-old Russian born, Belgium-based artist Olga Gouskova certainly knows how to capture an audience with her paintings of beautiful and stylish women. Gouskova's women are sexy, melancholic and mysterious, with a powerful physical intensity and a subtleness of form which almost makes you want to caress them.
Her female figures do in fact caress themselves, almost as if to emphasize the preciousness of the female body - the eternal source of life and love. The sinuous lines in Gouskova's paintings convey vibrations, memories, ambivalent feelings and deep emotion by means of the positions and expressions of the figures. Her contemporary approach to pose, dynamic composition and colour produces paintings that are modern, proud, vibrant and uniquely individual. When painting, Gouskova uses two different techniques. First she draws the body with sepia pencil to make it look almost real - warm and soft, giving it a feeling of physical intensity and a subtleness of form, outline and volume. For the rest of each painting she uses acrylic and all kinds of pens to draw lines and small decorative details. She doesn't paint the volume, using instead flat washes of colour. The lines and patterns make the composition dynamic and complete.
Olga Gouskova was born 28 July 1974 in Moscow, Russia. She grew up in Belarus.
1985-1992 Byelorussian Art lyceum, Minsk, Belarus
1992-1996 Byelorussian Academy of Arts, Design department, Minsk, Belarus
Since 1996 she lives and works in Belgium
www.olga-gouskova.be
solo exhibits:
01/03/08 - 14/04/08 Galerie Lynda Beck, Antwerp, Belgium
16/07/07 -31/07/07 Hal Dienst voor Cultuur, Bruges, Belgium
02/03/07 -31/12/07 Galerie Arte Falco, Antwerp, Belgium
04/11/06-29/11/06 Lord Eastleigh Contemporary Art Center, Antwerp, Belgium
19/03/05-27/03/05 "De Sleutelbrug" Bruges, Belgium
24/04/00-28/05/00 IPO-UFSIA, Antwerp, Belgium
group exhibits:
16/11/07-18/11/07 expo Art-event 2007, Antwerp Expo, Belgium
30/10/07 - 12/11/08 The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
02/06/07-16/09/07 't Hof te Puttens, Lede, Belgium
03/04/07-26/05/07 Down to Art, Ghent, Belgium
30/04/07-01/04/07 KUNST-in-Ahoy 2007, Rotterdam, Netherlands
01/12/06-31/12/06 Classic Art House, Brussels, Belgium
07/07/06-29/07/06 Flemish Nudes Portrettering van vrouwen, ING-bank, Ghent, Belgium
23/04/06 - 14/05/06 Sensualiteit, Atelier-Gallery Biz Art, Munte, Belgium
25/11/05-27/11/05 expo Art-event 2005, Antwerp Expo, Belgium
10/09/05-6/11/05 Gallery NUDES "Nudes in the dunes", Ghent, Belgium
18/03/05-12/06/05 Gallery NUDES "Women&Flowers", Ghent, Belgium
10/02/04-15/02/04 "The Art of Love" Adrean Gallery, London, UK
11/07/02-30/07/02 Gallery NUDES, Ghent, Belgium
03/02/01-04/03/01 Gallery TRIEDRE, Ohain, Belgium
23/09/00-01/10/00 expo LIBRART, Libramont, Belgium
13/07/00-30/07/00 The Art salon of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
22/10/99-28/11/99 Gallery P-ART, Ghent, Belgium
19/11/98-03/01/99 The Art salon of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium |
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