The theme of Katia Golitsyna’s present project is Moscow Art Nouveau, the mood – undisguised rapture, the tonality – romantic. It is not architecture per se, which attracts the artist, but the line of Art Nouveau itself, fluent, whimsical, refined, free, alluring...

One has to have the special and rare skill of a master to see so clearly the disappearing features of the artistic world of Art Nouveau in contemporary Moscow, which is raging with an unrestrained construction boom and to represent them with the elegance of the Silver Age. There is no longer any hope of recreating a picture of this world made from original buildings, they are drowning amongst Soviet boredom and the bad taste of the last years....

Photoreport from the opening of the exhibition.