Favorite mug, favorite cat, Nouvelle Version, 2024

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"In 'Favorite Mug, Favorite Cat' from my 'Madeleine' series, I capture the essence of comfort and familiarity found in our daily rituals and cherished companions. This artwork delves into the warmth and tranquility that arise from the simple pleasures of life, such as enjoying a favorite beverage or the quiet company of a beloved pet. It explores how these moments of personal contentment are deeply interwoven with our sense of home and security, offering a retreat from the complexities of the outside world. Through this painting, I invite viewers to appreciate the serene joy found in the small, often overlooked aspects of everyday life."

MADELEINE Series

The series of works “Madeleine" are the artist's reflections on the nature of time and memory, the ability of art to recreate the past and give it meaning.

The series is a deeply autobiographical study, where the artist asks questions about the nature of false memories, the ability of memory to correctly store stories, the ability of things and people to influence the perception of memory.

As in Proust's novel “In Search of Lost Time," where the taste of Madeleine becomes the key to the invisible rooms of the past, each painting by the artist is a gateway to personal memories that mix with fictitious images, evoking a feeling of either déjà vu or reality, a subtle but always vivid anticipation .

In the Madeleine series, the artist reveals an abundance of emotions and experiences, and, like Proust, uses art as a means to recreate the past, giving it new meaning and new value. Each work is a dialogue between the present and the past, between the external world and the internal space of memory.