"Hermitage" Series

Olga Komarova-Tobreluts is a pioneer of animation and computer graphics in St. Petersburg art: for five years now she has been actively performing in the field of electronic art, and new means of expression are used quite reflectively by her to assert her own poetics. This poetics is based on the dialectic of High and Low academicism: constant balancing between high classical examples and low, kitschy, gaudy examples. In this regard, Tobreluts belongs to the St. Petersburg neo-academic line, at the same time, she is so independent that she allows herself to go beyond the boundaries of the line drawn by Timur Novikov.

The main subject of her art is the very idea of ​​representation as such, embodied in the visualization of the very idea of ​​trying on. <…> The quality of beauty is absolutely unimportant, the only necessary thing is the desire to personify, to humanize beauty. This aspiration requires a certain magic crystal - and Tobreluts creates exactly this kind of magic glass: her computer backgrounds acquire a specific electronic spatiality - they are overgrown with a light-air environment or promising riddles-tricks.

Text: Alexander Borovsky