RESUME
Natalia Tolpekina was born in Chardjou, Turcmenia. She graduated Muhina's
Institute of High and Industrial Arts in Sankt-Petersburg ( which still
is one of the best in Russia) on a facultee of monumental and decorative
painting in 1973, and since that time she lives in Novosibirsk. She was
awarded Honorary Diploma Certificate for her institute diploma project
at the contest of Art Higher School diploma projects (Moscow). Her picture
"Young Scientists" painted for the All Union Youth exhibition (Moscow Riding-School,
1976) was distinguished with the prize of the Central Committee of the
Young Communist League, Natalia was the only artist who was granted a special
scholarship by the USSR Artists' Union. Since then she was admitted to
the rank of the most prominent young artists of the country. Each year
the painter was invited to bimonth seminars aimed at arranging All Union
Art exhibitions. Natalia participated in international exhibitions in the
USSR, as well as was the member of expert councils and juries of different
levels.
Novosibirsk,
the capital of Sibiria, is one of the typical cities of "frontier
civilization" and it is a pity that so far the support for the culture
has actually ceased to be. Nevertheless, remotedness of Sibiria and unconcern
for the art did not stop Natalia's attempts to take part in proposed programs
as she did the US Art Links program in 1997. At the present she intends
to participate in some personal exhibitions in Europe (Austria, Sweden,
Germany) and also in United States.
One can
find Natalia's pictures in both state and private collections in Russia
and abroad. She believes in "Art Self-Creation" theory. Nowadays she is
carried away with the ideas of post modernism, i.e., the game with the
past, ironic reconsideration of the one for the sake of it's preservation
at present .
