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Inna Rogatchi’s work Sound-beat I ( 2021) has been selected by the jury to participate in the International ADAF Digital Arts Festival in Athens. 

 

ADAF is the one of the largest and most prestigious Digital Arts festivals in the world. It was established in 2005, and has a large presence of international artists and a very large audience annually. 350-450 artists from about 60 countries are selected by the ADAF jury from 45 000 submissions. The ADAF exhibitions are organised at the famed Athens Technopolis. 

The Festival is highly rated internationally. It is the only Greek festival which is a laureate of the EFFE, Europe for Festival organisation. 

The theme of the 17th Edition of ADAF 2021 is TACTUS ( a touch in its wide and complex meaning), and it has been set as the invitation for artists to re-exam the definition of human connection. 

This theme is not new for Inna Rogatchi. The artist works on it constantly, and recently has created a special series Geometry of Love, many works of which are directly examining  this kind of connection artistically. 

Sound-beat I is modern work which aims to create ‘a portrait’ of a sound, and not just a sound, but the one of a beat of jazz. That’s why the inner dynamic of the work is quite essential here. The composition of the work also visually recreates the mode of a jazz, not only with its syncopes, but mostly with the main sensation of jazz as it is understood by Inna, its suddenness.  Suddenness is a character and gift of jazz, and the artist aimed to portray it in her work. Coloristic-wise, the work is created in cold colours, echoing the coolness of jazz. Importantly,  none of the colors used by Inna  is presented in the work in a direct way. Each of them has a number of shades ( there are five different blue, four greens,  three white and two yellow colours) presenting complexity, smoothness, inter-connectivity and that special sensation of jazz, that always surprising Sound-beat of it. 

The 17th ADAF Digital Arts Festival in Athens will be on display from September 20th till October 3st, 2021. There will also be an online version of the Festival. 

 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.

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. 

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 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 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. 

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. 

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. 

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).