Inna Rogatchi’s work Through the Time. Tuscany from her The Shapes of Italy series, and MY ITALY interdisciplinary project, has been selected to participate at The SHAPE OF THINGS international juried exhibition at very prestigious PRAXIS Gallery & Photographic Art Centre in Minneapolis, the USA, in September-October 2021.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Through the Time: Tuscany. 2021.
The glass portrayed in Inna’s artwork is an authentic glass of an original window of the XVI century Palazzo in Firenze. Very few of these windows are still intact, so it is a precious historical subject as well.
The exhibition’s curators have built its concept based on the essentially important credo by Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation… an organic coordination of visual elements”.
At The Shape of Things exhibition, Praxis Gallery presents works of art that explore composition as a fundamental aspect of the photographic aesthetic. There are 72 works by international artists selected for the exhibition.
The exhibition will take place from September 18th until October 2nd, 2021. PRAXIS is one of the most prestigious high-end galleries and art photography centres in the United States and internationally. They have established both the level of their exhibitions and activities and their audience at the high professional and aesthetic level, and are very highly reputed world-wide.
Inna Rogatchi’s two works will be presented at the top professional PH21 art gallery at The Art of Photography exhibition in Barcelona at the end of August 2021.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Cio-Cio-san I. Dilemmas series. 2021.
The exhibition will take place at the prestigious Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, August 22-29, 2021.
The exhibition is curated by prof. Zsolt Batori, an international top authority in the world of art photography today. Prof. Batori is known as the rare master who teaches photography as philosophy.
At the exhibition will be presented the works by 70 artists from 22 countries. Inna Rogatchi is the sole representative of Finland there.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Love Story. Zen Lines. Geometry of Love series. 2020.
Inna will show two of her works at The Art of Photography exhibition, Love Story ( 2020) and Cio-Cio-san I ( 2021).
The other version of Inna’s original artwork based on her Love Story composition was successfully shown at the 5th London Art Biennale ( June-July 2021). The work is part of Inna’s Zen Lines. Geometry of Love series.
Cio-Cio-san I ( 2021) is part of Inna’s Dilemmas series. The artist calls this work ‘a portrait of life’. Online preview of The Art of Photography exhibition of the PH21 Gallery in Barcelona ( August 22-29, 2021) can be seen here.
Inna Rogatchi’s works to be presented at the Abstract Mind 2022 exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea, in February – March 2022.
Inna Rogatchi will participate in the Abstract Mind 2022 international art exhibition at the CICA Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, in South Korea.
CICA Museum is a well-known art institution which was established in the mid-1990s and started to operate from 2006 onward. The Museum started as the studio and gallery of the leading Korean contemporary sculptor Czong ho Kim who was studying, working and exhibiting also in New York, Los-Angeles and Geneva. From that starting point, the international dimension of the museum was started and developed. The Museum is well-known due to its numerous international projects with American, in particular, New York based museums and art institutions.
Interior of the CICA Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea. (C) Courtesy: CICA Museum.
Abstract Mind 2022 is a customary CICA Museum international multidisciplinary exhibition in which the works in various genres of contemporary art render the main theme.
In Inna Rogatchi’s art, the abstract genre has an important place. The artist has created and still is creating many works in her several collections of abstract art. Five of them, the works from Inna’s series Movements, MAHLER, and Mystic Pictures, will be present at the exhibition at the CICA Museum in South Korea.
Exterior of the CICA Museum complex, the Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea. (C) Courtesy: CICA Museum.
Inna’s husband, artist Michael Rogatchi, also will be participating in the Abstract Mind 2022 exhibition with his works. It will be another ‘joint show’ of the Rogatchi family, after their successful At the Same Time dual exhibition in Rome, Italy.
The exhibition will take place from February 23nd till March 13th, 2022.
Inna Rogatchi’s WAITING FOR TURNER I artworks ( 2021) has been pre-selected by the Selection Committee of the Royal Society of Marine Artists ( RSMA) for participation in the Society’s Annual Exhibition 2021 at the Mall Galleries in London later in the Autumn 2021.
Inna Rogatchi (C). WAITING FOR TURNER. Original drawing in watercolour, wax pastel, oil pastel, batonette aquarreable, crayons Luminance on authored original archival pigment print on Etching cotton paper. 42 x 60 cm. Size with passepartout and frame 64 x 82 cm.
Royal Society of Marine Artists is widely recognised as the focal point for much of Britain’s finest contemporary marine art. It conducts its famous Annual Exhibitions at the Mall Galleries in London, highly prestigious point for Britain’s and international contemporary figurative art, and the home for the British Federation of British Artists.
Federation of British Artists ( FBA) is known widely as a major visual arts charity established in 1961 and the unique national resource of visual arts. FSA is an umbrella organisation for nine leading British art societies, with some of them with very long tradition, such as Royal Society of British Artists which was established in 1823, or Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, which was established in 1831.
2021 is a special year for both Federation of British Artists and Mall Galleries, both celebrating jubileums. Federation of British Artists celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2021, while Mall Galleries, its home and unique art establishment, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
To celebrate such double anniversaries, the Annual Exhibitions of all nine leading professional associations of British artists will be especially fascinating and memorable.
Inna Rogatchi’s highlights for her work pre-selected for the RSMA Annual Exhibition 2021 describes the artist’s thoughts and ideas behind it: “ WAITING FOR TURNER I atmospheric marine landscape is decisively resolved in an accord of two main domains: of blue and of white, to be found in both elements, water/sea and air/sky. Importantly, those both domains encompass many shades of the domineering colours and their status. There are as many as seven shades of blue, from deep Prussian blue to very light blue, and as many as four shades of white, from bright white to light greyish white.
Also decisively, the coexistence of all those shades within the two domains and also in between the space of blue and space of white is harmonious. In its unique dynamic, it is as if evolving each shade from another, creating a distinct impression and special atmosphere of a living watercolour in that magic landscape where seashore and sea horizon are almost identical in their profiles with the stretch of the mountains behind them. The harmony of all those three layers naturally meet the sky and dissolve into it happily, with an opening a window of light coming out with all its mercy and promise.
The whole scene is as if waiting for Turner to be reflected in the way only this unique, great British painter could make it.” ( Inna Rogatchi on her WAITING FOR TURNER I artwork).
Inna Rogatchi’s LOVE STORY I artwork successfully represented Finland at the 5th London Art Biennale, the second most important international event in contemporary art after Venice.
According to the organisers, the opening of the London Art Biennale on June 20th, 2021 was spectacular. The 1,5-2 hours queue to the event had been unprecedented.
The opening of the Biennale at the historical building of the Chelsea Old Town Hall was attended by approximately 50 ambassadors as well as a very impressive range of guests including the Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea, Cllr Gerard Hargreaves.
The days of the Biennale, July 1st- July 4th, continued this great success. The exhibition was attended by an incredibly high number of visitors. The event has been dubbed in the British press as ‘the hottest art event in the town’.
A giant exhibition of multiple trends in the global contemporary art displayed 455 artworks by the artists from 60 countries.
The work was attested by the senior art collector as ‘very original, striking, and beautifully done’ and as ‘reflecting a mighty talent’ by the top art consultant, among many others highly positive feedbacks. According to the chairman of the prominent UK Art Heritage Trust, ‘a charming double-portrait from Belgium and Inna Rogatchi’s work are the two most impressive works, to me, at this year’s Biennale show’.
Inna continues to create in the direction seen in her highly successful Love Story I work, developing the field of her metaphorical poetic art in Zen Lines: Geometry of Love and the other new series. Currently, she is working on a new art collection Heart Maps, and is preparing Dilemmas & Sketches new exhibition.
