love. life. light.
IRINA METZ
visual artist
oil, acrylic & pastel
visual artist
oil, acrylic & pastel
biography
Irina's art reflects decades of intercultural studies that she carried out during her multiple journeys all around the world and while working on her PhD in Philology thesis. The pursue and perception of Happiness have always been the main themes of Irina's research in literature, history, culture, sociology, psychology making it only natural to find their reflection in her art.
Irina studied oil painting from distinguished contemporary impressionists in Russia and Italy including Svetlana and Federico Perotti, Igor Raevich and Bato Dugarzhapov to name just a few. Their techniques of transmitting elusive moments of beauty and joy to the canvas have been adapted by Irina to depict vivid impressions, treasured memories and colorful dreams in her paintings
The artist has received a number of honored commissions including paintings for private collections and 5* design hotels in Russia, Italy, UK, France, USA (California, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky) and Maldives.
Irina regularly takes part in international art exhibitions and creative projects, her paintings have been acknowledged by several awards and featured in a number of print and digital magazines globally.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Art Expo Trieste, Trieste, Italy
2024 “What About Eve?” curated international art exhibition, Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
2024 “Unlocked Identities” curated international exhibition, Perseus Gallery, Soho, New York, NY, USA
2024 “Gaia and the Spirits of Nature” curated trio exhibition, Rettori Tribbio Gallery, Trieste, Italy
2024 “Finest Art Showcase”, Art Scene West Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
2024 “Flora and Fauna”, Molbert Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2023 Synergy Art Fair Miami, Art Basel Week, Miami, FL, USA
2023 Art Expo Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023 Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
2023 Art Contact Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Selected Publications
- Artventurous Art & Design Magazine, Issue 39, Spain, Fall 2024
- Artventurous Art & Design Magazine, Issue 38, Spain, Summer 2024
- Novum Artis - The New Artistic, Volume 003, July 2024
- "Gli spiriti della natura nell'esposizione "Gaia", Il Piccolo - Daily Newspaper, Trieste, Italy, 22 June 2024
- 101 Contemporary Artists and more..., Volume 5, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024
- Beyond Words - International Magazine of Word & Image, Issue 42, Berlin, Germany, December 2023
Awards
2023 Talent Prize Award of Teravarna Juried Art Competition
2016 1st Prize of Art Festival in Verona, Italy
Irina studied oil painting from distinguished contemporary impressionists in Russia and Italy including Svetlana and Federico Perotti, Igor Raevich and Bato Dugarzhapov to name just a few. Their techniques of transmitting elusive moments of beauty and joy to the canvas have been adapted by Irina to depict vivid impressions, treasured memories and colorful dreams in her paintings
The artist has received a number of honored commissions including paintings for private collections and 5* design hotels in Russia, Italy, UK, France, USA (California, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky) and Maldives.
Irina regularly takes part in international art exhibitions and creative projects, her paintings have been acknowledged by several awards and featured in a number of print and digital magazines globally.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Art Expo Trieste, Trieste, Italy
2024 “What About Eve?” curated international art exhibition, Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
2024 “Unlocked Identities” curated international exhibition, Perseus Gallery, Soho, New York, NY, USA
2024 “Gaia and the Spirits of Nature” curated trio exhibition, Rettori Tribbio Gallery, Trieste, Italy
2024 “Finest Art Showcase”, Art Scene West Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
2024 “Flora and Fauna”, Molbert Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2023 Synergy Art Fair Miami, Art Basel Week, Miami, FL, USA
2023 Art Expo Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023 Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
2023 Art Contact Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Selected Publications
- Artventurous Art & Design Magazine, Issue 39, Spain, Fall 2024
- Artventurous Art & Design Magazine, Issue 38, Spain, Summer 2024
- Novum Artis - The New Artistic, Volume 003, July 2024
- "Gli spiriti della natura nell'esposizione "Gaia", Il Piccolo - Daily Newspaper, Trieste, Italy, 22 June 2024
- 101 Contemporary Artists and more..., Volume 5, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024
- Beyond Words - International Magazine of Word & Image, Issue 42, Berlin, Germany, December 2023
Awards
2023 Talent Prize Award of Teravarna Juried Art Competition
2016 1st Prize of Art Festival in Verona, Italy
artist's statement
Turbulent times make us strive for eternal values. My paintings are my research of world's transformation from self-destruction to re-creation that humanity is passing now, the way towards conscious pursue of Happiness.
Re-thinking impressionists' fundamentals I use two similar but conceptually different mediums separately or together. Vivid full-bodied images are created with oil colours linking my art to historical traditions of depicting eternal beauty of human and nature. Acrylic as a modern material implements synthetic canvas of our current living within artificial news and sublimated identities. Abstracts both in oil and acrylic make an important compliment to general concept reflecting deeper feelings and emotions evoked in us by the world.
Through combination of eternal and modern elements pursue of Happiness in my art becomes a key to inner and outer Balance. I wish my paintings help people to live through turbulent times and teaches all of us to treasure moments of Joy, celebration of Beauty and Life as they are.
Re-thinking impressionists' fundamentals I use two similar but conceptually different mediums separately or together. Vivid full-bodied images are created with oil colours linking my art to historical traditions of depicting eternal beauty of human and nature. Acrylic as a modern material implements synthetic canvas of our current living within artificial news and sublimated identities. Abstracts both in oil and acrylic make an important compliment to general concept reflecting deeper feelings and emotions evoked in us by the world.
Through combination of eternal and modern elements pursue of Happiness in my art becomes a key to inner and outer Balance. I wish my paintings help people to live through turbulent times and teaches all of us to treasure moments of Joy, celebration of Beauty and Life as they are.
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private collections
elusive identity
«The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
elusive identity
«The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
under the bluebird sky
«Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.»
— Maurice Maeterlinck
— Maurice Maeterlinck
under the bluebird sky
«Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.»
— Maurice Maeterlinck
— Maurice Maeterlinck
rêves français
«These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.»
― Anton Chekhov, A Day in the Country
― Anton Chekhov, A Day in the Country
rêves français
«These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.»
― Anton Chekhov, A Day in the Country
― Anton Chekhov, A Day in the Country
sogni italiani
«Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.»
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
sogni italiani
«Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.»
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
nature-all resources
"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."
— Leonardo da Vinci
— Leonardo da Vinci
nature-all resources
"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."
— Leonardo da Vinci
— Leonardo da Vinci
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