My name is Margarita Simonova. I am an academic artist-sculptor. My creative direction is balanced between academic realism and impressionism. To be devoted to nature and at the same time capture a fleeting mood.
2015-2019 MGAKHU Academic College in memory of 1905 with honors and praise at the Faculty of Sculpture, where they laid all the foundations of painting. Since 2019 at the Academic University of MGAKHI Surikov, Faculty of Sculpture.
Due to my education, I am an academic sculptor, but I am equally proficient in sculpture and drawing, as well as academic painting, which is not typical for a professional sculptor. Being at the junction of two academic artistic directions and owning each of them, I see the world around me differently.
Thanks to my academic education, I work from nature: whether it's running clouds in the North of Russia, cute pets, urban landscapes, rains or sunsets. I go with paints and sketchbook to the North, to the virgin corners of Russia, I catch the character of a friendly and very playful dog, I go to another country, and everywhere I write or sculpt my impression of what I saw. I always rely in my work on a living, genuine perception when there is no "glass" between me and the world, when I can feel the depicted moment of life not only with my eyes and hands, but also with my whole body, with my whole mind and soul. I paint large paintings and sculptures from my "live" sketches.
2021 British exhibition from the World Association of Portrait Sculptors Society of Portrait Sculptors "FACE 2021". Sculpture bust "Genghis” awarded the TIRANTI PRIZE COMMENDED https://www.portrait-sculpture.org/copy-of-gallery-4-face2020
2021 Season 3 "Time, Go Ahead!" Finalist in the “DPI" nomination with the work "Conquering the Peaks", participant of the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow
2021 "Autumn exhibition" sculpture of the OMS from the MSCH “Natasha", Moscow, Kuznetsky Bridge, house 20
2021 Exhibition "ARTIST WANTED Episode IV". Sculptures “Natasha” and "Rottweiler Eva". The museum-apartment of A.A. Blok in St. Petersburg
2021 The exhibition of the OMS from the MSCH "The beginning of the way. Traditions and innovations in the art of the young". Sculpture "Dasha". Moscow
2021 MOSH exhibition "YOUTH XLI", Moscow
2021 The exhibition ART-ROSTOV, Rostov-on-Don
2021 3rd place in the American competition "Cameiback Gallery" "FACE 2021"
2020 All-Russian Competition-Festival 2020 of Young Sculptors, 1st place in the nomination "Portrait" - Bust "Senya", Ufa
2018 IX Stroganov Olympiad 2018 Moscow State Art and Industrial Academy named after S. G. Stroganov: 1st place in the Sculpture nomination among sculptors, 3rd place in the nomination "Head drawing/ capital", Moscow
2017 Сultural cooperation between Russia and Italy - "OPVS PRACTICVM" and participation in the competition in this project, Italy, G. Pietrasanta
The Garrison Chapel 8, Garrison Square Chelsea Barracks London SW1W 8BG
The portrait of "SEVA" https://www.artmajeur.com/margarita-simonova/ru/artworks/17048476/seva has passed full-time selection and will take part in the Open Exhibition of the Society of Portrait Sculptors (SPS) FACE in the UK from August 14 to September 10, 2023 in the Garrison Chapel, Garrison Square, 8, Chelsea Barracks, Londonis available for purchase at the exhibition.
59th EXHIBITION 14 August – 10 September 2023
https://www.portrait-sculpture.org/open-exibition-face2023
By kind permission of The Prince’s Foundation
at The Garrison Chapel 8, Garrison Square Chelsea Barracks London SW1W 8BG
Opening Hours 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. daily including weekends / 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Evening opening on Thu 24 Aug, / Thu 31 Aug and Thu 7 Sep. The exhibition will close at 4pm on Sunday 10 Sep.
01/25/2022 - 02/25/2022
I am taking part with three works from my new series of paintings "Shells" in the permanent exhibition of the project "Creative Space of Art and Fashion", which is filled with a lively and pulsating atmosphere of contemporary art and is located in the very center of Moscow, on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street, in the unique business cluster "BT35". You will see the works of more than 30 masters. The exposition is updated every month.Inaddition to the colorful opening day, guests can expect busy weekdays. Master classes, presentations by artists and creative evenings will be held every week.
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The "Creative Space of Art and Fashion" is a new point of attraction for all lovers of contemporary art.
Now in my work I am interested in the disclosure of the concept of "Soul.Bodies.Reason”" Where is the beginning of one phenomenon and the end of another? How to depict these movements? I am looking for ways to convey to people my thoughts of these three phenomena by comparing them with things we understand - a pearl shell. Is the soul a pearl? and the mind is the softness of the shell? or is the mind a pearl? “Who's Who?" the viewer decides for himself. I set myself the task of speaking in the language of art not about emotions - rude and vivid experiences, but about feelings that are not so loud, but they are one of the highest manifestations of the human spirit and mind. The feeling differs from the emotional impulses of the soul in complexity, and I convey this subtle multicoloration of the states of the inner world of a person with the mother-of-pearl shell. I consider the phenomenon of shells and pearls to be unique. The way something foreign gets inside a closed world, over time, becomes part of it, and how at the same time the softness of the shell plays with this guest-grain of sand, enveloping it with itself and making it a part of itself - this process is akin to human relationships. And akin to the concepts of "Soul.Body.The mind.”
