10 Contemporary Artists. Curator: Maarten Bertheux.

From the exhibition poster:

Tatyana Yassievich paints obscure and seemingly forgotten places in and around St Petersburg: the lobby of a building, a station concourse, or an unexceptional square. In the process, she gives them an attention that is normally denied them in the rush of everyday life, partly because of a general lack of interest in remnants of the Soviet era. Nowadays Yassievich also paints scenes in other cities, because St Petersburg's urban appearance and industrial archaeology (for example, its trains and stations) have come to resemble those in other big cities. Along with their historical and architectural value, these sites also hold a history of minor and maior human tragedies. Yassievich's realistic style of painting stands in a rich Russian tradition. But unlike the social realists, she does not present an idealized world. Her free and colourful approach is more closely related to the tradition of Marc Chagall and Natalia Goncharova.

Hermitage, Amsterdam

November 23, 2013–January 5, 2014