In December 2021, contemporary artist Liliia Kaluzhyna (Alika) participated in the 3rd Edition of Premio ICONART 2021, held on December 18 at the Maritime Station in Salerno, Italy. The event, organized by PRINCE GROUP, brought together contemporary artists in an exhibition dedicated to art and visual culture.
On this occasion, the painting The Smell of Spring (120 × 100 cm, oil on canvas) by Liliia Kaluzhyna was presented. The work reflects the artist’s painterly approach, focused on color, composition, and expressive interpretation, with references to both impressionistic and expressive painting.
The event included the participation of art critic and historian Vittorio Sgarbi, contributing to its cultural significance within the Italian art context.
The artwork was also published in ICONART Magazine, accompanied by a critical text by Dr. IFF.
Liliia Kaluzhyna presents her painting “The Smell of Spring” at the Third Edition of the ICONART Award 2021, held on December 18th in Salerno.
Liliia Kaluzhyna’s artwork “The Smell of Spring,” oil on canvas, 120×100 cm (2021), is highlighted in ICONART Magazine with a critical review by Dr.ssa IFF.
Critical text.
There is all the poetic fascination of an expressionistic color aesthetic in Liliia Kaluzhyna art. A color that becomes language, which speaks through a kaleidoscopic fullness of color that tinges the reality of every more imperceptible and different suggestion of the soul. A dimension hanging between the dreamlike and the fantastic adorns the iconography of his compositions, vibrant with the colors spread on the canvases that open to meditative horizons, to the experience of the emotions felt, the sensations sought. Each representation is an impetuous and engaging horde of suggestions that come from the depths and which are substantiated by the solid and full of color construction quality, used in its many shades, in its contrasts, in its assonances. in “The Smell of Spring” the compositional harmony finds its completeness precisely in the juxtaposition of colors, which are summarized in the aesthetic vision of a perfect balance between man and nature. With striking features, solid textures and impressionistic shades, the colors crowd the canvas in their various shades, describing an almost elegiac, idyllic landscape of nature where the soft thoughts of the slow woman on the boat are welcomed, immersed in the tranquility of the still waters. The sweet spring air pervades the lightness of the places in every smallest brushstroke, in every minimum tonal passage and pushes itself into the plane of feelings that slowly shipwrecks towards ports of calm and emotional serenity. A single large lyric system that frees thoughts, pushes the imagination, runs through the labyrinths of suggestion.
Critical text and edited by Dr. IFF, art critic