Evgenia Lotsmanova artist. high awards

We are sometimes reproached: you have only reissues, and now no one wants to publish contemporary young artists. To be honest, this is a shame to read: our publishing house publishes quite a lot of such books (a lot, considering that we are a small private publishing house). Books - different, something a tribute to the experiment, something simpler. Over the past couple of years, we have published books with illustrations by: Victoria Kirdy, Ksenia Lavrova, Galina Zinko, Olga Fadeeva, Lina Eitmantite-Valuzienė, Elena Bazanova, Liza Bukhalova, Olga Ionaitis, Galina Lavrenko, Lyudmila Pipchenko, Ekaterina Plaksina, Polina Yakovleva. If anyone missed something - you are welcome to study on the site
Perhaps this feeling is due to the fact that I rarely talk about these books in this LiveJournal, but this is from a series of one-sided information :) - our St.

We are currently actively working with new series"Image of Speech". According to our plan, this series will include books contemporary artists, as recognized masters, and very young; both completely new projects and reworked by the artist specifically for this series. So Nevsky Prospekt with Mikhail Bychkov, Journey to the Tandadrika and About What Cannot Be with Igor Oleinikov, Yozhka Goes to School with Evgeny Antonenkov have already come out.
We are currently preparing two books: Candle Girl Yulia Gukova And "magic hill" Evgenia Lotsmanova.

For the young artist Evgenia Lotsmanova, this will be only the second book published.
the first was this one (I think many people noticed it)

So, a rare tale by G.Kh. Andersen "Magic Hill"
The illustrations are based on graduate work by the artist, but significantly revised for this edition.
Drawings in a rare technique today - lithography.

For now, these are just illustrations, not a layout.
I don’t know anything else, this is a book of our St. Petersburg editorial office, closer to the release the information will be on the website.

Well, you can read a little about the artist here
Home for words and characters
Interview with Evgenia Lotsmanova
"Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying colors and refining it in search of the best solution. And there is a beauty in the miraculous nature of the printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect..."

Kolomna, Moscow region

Since January 30, within the framework of the Youth Creative Workshop project, the Fairytale Forest exhibition dedicated to the Year of Literature in Russia has been open at the Cultural Center Dom Ozerov. The exhibition presents book illustrations for the fairy tales of H. K. Andersen, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists Evgenia Lotsmanova.

About the author: Evgenia Lotsmanova was born in 1985 in Kolomna, graduated from the Children's art school and chose the profession of an illustrator. Drawing with early childhood was a favorite pastime - after all, Evgenia's relatives on the maternal side were icon painters in the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow province. In 2007, Evgenia graduated from the Moscow State University print.

Now Evgenia Lotsmanova is not only an illustrator. She also writes children's poems and dreams of publishing a book, illustrating it with her drawings. The profession of an illustrator accompanies and, to some extent, complements the artist's hobby - making an author's toy: dolls and fairy-tale compositions from various materials(papier-mâché, paperclay, keramoplast, mohair).

The main part of the works at the exhibition are illustrations for the fairy tale The Magic Hill by H. K. Andersen. For a young artist, Evgenia Lotsmanova, Magic Hill is the second published book with her illustrations, which brought this fairy tale to life and cannot but arouse admiration. Still, how much an artist means to a book!

At the heart of the illustrations of this true fairy tale book- the thesis of the artist, but significantly revised for this edition. Drawings in a technique that is rare today, which is considered to be a heavy male technique - lithography. Rich artistic language and the vivid expressive possibilities of the lithography technique helped to create a complex, cheerful and slightly mysterious world.

Evgenia herself writes about the chosen technique as follows: “Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying colors and refining it in search of the best solution. And there is a charm in the miraculousness of the printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect ... I draw some heroes from the closest people, for example, from my mother."

Illustrations... They, like a light cloud, envelop and immerse in a fairy tale, create an unusually magical atmosphere. Evgenia Lotsmanova created small world, inhabited by creatures so cute that the fairy tale The Magic Hill will become one of your favorites! It seems that the illustrations created with such warmth and love cannot fail to resonate in the hearts of the audience. The Fairy Forest exhibition is a journey through the fairy tales of H.K. Andersen, which makes you want to read or re-read the marvelous tales of the Danish writer.

Cultural center "House of Ozerov"

Moscow region, Kolomna, st. Krasnogvardeiskaya, 2

Directions:

From Moscow: from st. m. "Vykhino" by bus number 460 to the stop. "Bank", from Kazansky railway station by train to the station "Golutvin", then by tram No. 3, buses No. 5,10 or fixed-route taxis No. 68, 20 to the stop. "Square of 2 revolutions"

Kolomna is a wonderful city. It is both ancient and new. We arrived here well in advance, and before the opening of Zhenya Lotsmanova's exhibition, we wandered around a bit and took some pictures as a keepsake.
Still, it is not clear why there is not a single bench on the boulevard in front of Ozerov's house ((There is absolutely nothing to sit on with taste. But otherwise, the ratings from impressions are solid fives.
And the exhibition itself even exceeded our expectations. It seems that they saw for the most part the well-known, already loved for a long time, but all the same, the feelings at the sight of this wealth are fresh and strong. Just like the first time.
For some reason, I have a feeling in the depths of my soul that I remember Zhenya from her very young years. This, of course, is a "false memory". I met her at the defense of my diploma at the University of Printing Arts, or a little earlier, in the workshop of Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov.
He has, I repeat, many talented students. And the diplomas at that time were also defended entirely by worthy guys. But no offense to all of them, be it said, Zhenya eclipsed everyone.
I'm probably addicted. Of course, he is biased - because he is not indifferent. To the art of illustrating children's books, for example. Because this is a very important matter. Dima Shevarov rightly said - the one who saves the children's illustration now is the one who saves Russia. Exactly so, and one should not think that this is pathos, big words, exaggeration. After all, today the children - and tomorrow the people. This is also not my idea, Sergey Mikhalkov said this a long time ago. It is a children's book, children's, family reading create that connection of times and generations, which is vital for the development national consciousness. This connection has been practically lost in the last twenty years.
But I will no longer retell other people's clever thoughts, it is better to listen to Shevarov himself.
Zhenya's pictures are very kind, interesting, a little mysterious. I want to look at them, and inquisitive childish look they will tell a lot, and leave a lot of things for fantasies and reflections.
He said "pictures" - and I want to stop myself. Not pictures, but pood printing stones, unbearable for fragile girlish hands - that's what Zhenya had to work with. Autolithography is a very time-consuming, difficult task that requires a true eye, a steady hand and, of course, inspiration. Unlike drawing or painting, the end result of your hand movements is not immediately visible, but after the appearance of the print (and even engravings are mirror reflections original, where "right-left" - vice versa).

() What else to add? The book of mermaid and magpie tales is ready for printing. Let's wait for its release!
Thanks to Zhenya Lotsmanova, good luck to her!

Director of the Kolomna art school Vasily Berg, director of the cultural center "House of Ozerov" Galina Drozdova, artists Alexandra Pavlova, Alexandra Ponomareva, Nadezhda Chekhonina, Tatyana Karp, Anastasia Shevarova, writer and journalist Dmitry Shevarov speak at the opening of the exhibition "A Little Fairy Tale Journey" in Kolomna:

22.6.20012, shooting - Alexandra Kirillina

Artist friends Alexandra Pavlova, Tatyana Karp, Anastasia Shevarova, writer and journalist Dmitry Shevarov talk about Zhenya Lotsmanova:

Yury Kurneshov is talking, shooting - Alexandra Kirillina

"An illustrator is his own director, decorator and actor. I live the life of my characters, convey the character. The art of book illustration is very akin to the theater, sometimes you want the characters to jump out of the book and start talking."

Lotsmanova Evgenia

Evgenia Lotsmanova(b. 1989) - a young Moscow artist, a graduate of the faculty graphic arts Moscow University of Printing.

Evgenia was born and studied in Kolomna, attended an art school. She began to draw from early childhood. I loved to portray fairy tale characters, small animals that are very common in Russian folk tales. In 2002 she entered the Moscow State University of Printing Arts at the faculty book graphics So the hobby became a profession. All her works are made in the best traditions of the Russian school of illustration. Now Evgenia lives in Moscow.

The artist began to work on the creation of drawings for "Magpie's Tales" long ago, back in 2004, but the result appeared only eight years later. This is due to the choice of execution technique, very complex and time-consuming - lithography. To create one picture, according to Evgenia Lotsmanova herself, it takes her from one to several months. (Lithography - writing, drawing and artistic drawing on a stone with ink and a special pencil, as well as scratching with a needle, followed by printing impressions on paper.)

Here is what Evgenia herself says about working on “ Forty tales”:

"I love Tolstoy's fairy tales since childhood. He has a very juicy Russian language. It's great to feel that time, village life with huts, walking geese in the yard, with horses, a threshing floor, a well. I wanted to show all this. And lithography is a very unusual technique - it's interesting to create one sketch, and then vary the color in different ways. It's a fun artistic process that produces different effects."

In Kolomna from June 16 to July 22 cultural center"The Ozerov House is hosting the first solo exhibition of a 27-year-old illustrator, a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Moscow University of Printing Arts, Evgenia Lotsmanova. I apologize in advance for poor-quality photographs - the drawings hang under glass. I found quite a few illustrations on the Internet.

The exhibition presents illustrations for the fairy tales of H.K. Andersen, A.N. Tolstoy, S. Pisakhov and C. Lewis. The artist herself can best tell about her work, so below I will give an interview that Evgenia gave to the correspondent of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

How did it happen that you devoted yourself to such a heavy male technique as lithography? Evgenia Lotsmanova: Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying colors and refining it in search of the best solution. And there is a charm in the miraculousness of the printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect.

You called your exhibition a journey. Where are we going? Evgenia Lotsmanova: We will go on a journey through fairy tales created by writers different countries. They carry both a bright national flavor and the spirit of the time when they were created. Russian, European or oriental tales require a different approach, different artistic reference points, be it Russian lubok and painted spinning wheels, Iranian miniature or European painting of the 16th-19th centuries.

Your heroes are fabulous - you will not meet such people in life. Where do they come to you from? From dreams, from childhood?.. Evgenia Lotsmanova: Yes, mostly from childhood impressions and some vague, but very dear associations... I draw some heroes from the closest people. For example, from my mother.

What books do you love and love to read? Evgenia Lotsmanova: As a child, I loved it very much fairy tales and stories about animals. Later I read a lot of classics and adventure literature like The Three Musketeers. One of my favorite books now is The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. I always enjoy reading memoirs, books written in exile, memoirs of people who survived the most difficult moments of our history. One of the last reads is the memoirs of the artist Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

When did you feel like an illustrator? Evgenia Lotsmanova: It all started with wonderful picture, drawn by my mother for the "City of Masters". She was so good at it that I wanted to draw just as well.

Your exhibition is Dreamland. What would you call this country? Evgenia Lotsmanova: I remember the words of Nika Georgievna Goltz, one of my favorite illustrators, said at a meeting with us, students. She said: no fictional countries are needed, because all the most interesting and magical things happen nearby, you just need to see it.

They say that your ancestors were icon painters? What do you know about them and do you feel in yourself, in your art, some kind of ancestral continuity? Evgenia Lotsmanova: Unfortunately, I don't know much. My maternal great-grandfather came from a village in the Yegoryevsk district, where icon-painting flourished. In his youth, great-grandfather continued family traditions, but after the revolution, he had to change his occupation. Probably both iconography and book illustration- types of art that do not allow too much fuss, including rather laborious work, requiring "deep immersion" and intense mental work.

Who are your favorite artists? Evgenia Lotsmanova: I love Flemish and Dutch painting, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer. I am happy to contact many masters European painting up to late XIX V. In Russian art, I really love Korovin, Kustodiev, Vrubel, all the "World of Art". I treat Benois' ABC and Bilibin's books with spiritual trepidation. And of course, my great and endless joy is the masters of Soviet book graphics, whose pictures are dearly loved since childhood: Konashevich, Yuri Vasnetsov, Mavrina, Ustinov, Eliseev, Goltz and many, many others. And especially I want to say about the illustrations of my dear teacher Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov, which for me already at the institute became a real insight.

You write poetry, you sing, you make puppets... Evgenia Lotsmanova: I manage only a small part of what I want to do. But different hobbies, I feel, feed each other. Russian singing folk songs inspires pictures for Russian fairy tales, if there is no time to draw an image that suddenly appeared, you can write a poem about it somewhere on the road, and creating dolls, working with volume, with different textures and materials makes it easier to sculpt a shape in a drawing.

It is often said that children are indifferent to books, to reading, that the book will die soon. What would you say to such skeptics? Evgenia Lotsmanova: With the help of computer technology, information can be obtained, but most likely it will be kaleidoscopic. The book is capable of carrying a holistic artistic image, which will educate the taste of the child, being an understandable, cozy and tangible house for words and characters living and acting in it, like actors in a play played for one small spectator and for his closest people.