Russian Art Festival Arttitud San Francisco. 16 may 2014.

Celebration of Russian Art.Traditional Russian Art show at Attitud .
We are happy to welcome The Russian Art Festival at Arttitud San Francisco for San Francisco Art Market Week, May 16, 2014. Art opening reception May 16, from 6 to 9pm, with refreshments and Russian culture entertainment provided. Many of the participating artists are from Russian and Eastern Europe.
Participating artists include:  Mihail Chemiakin, Vlacheclav Kalinin, Alexander Osmerkin , Alexey Vladimirov, Sergey Konstantinov, Victoria Kovalenchikova & others.

Aleksey Vladimirov's name well-known, as in Ukraine, and abroad. A.Vladimirov's works are in 17 galleries and museums of Ukraine, including in National Museum Ukrainian Arts (Kiev), The Kiev museum of Russian Arts, National museums of a history of Ukraine (Kiev) and etc. Works of the master are in private collections in Ukraine, Sweden, Austria, England, Germany, Holland, France, Italy and USA. In opinion of American critics, during carrying out of a personal exhibition in California, A.Vladimirov works have defined determined «A new era of a sculpture».

Konstantinov has had his works in major collections and exhibitions in Europe and North America since the mid 1980s. Some of his more impressive commissioned work in recent years has been for Suzanne Tucker and also the Getty Family. Equally astounding with figurative, abstract and historically-flavored styles of work, Konstantinov's brushwork knows no boundaries, with recent forays into photoshop-powered printmaking showing yet another facet of his bold artistic vision and personality.

Showroom creator Tatiana Takaeva has quickly established herself as one of San Francisco's up-and-coming art curators. Takaeva has put together numerous art shows with a global roster of established artists in some of San Francisco's newest venues, attracting the attention of local media, collectors, other galleries and artists. With a formal and professional background in architecture and design, Takaeva brings a fresh, aesthetic-based perspective to the art world.

Admission is $20

Tatiana Takaeva's Arttitud - global design.

It's a long way, visually speaking, from the neoclassical architecture of St. Petersburg's grand Hermitage Museum to the sensuous curves of Pierre Paulin's famed foam and rubber "tongue" chair for Artifort, a Dutch furniture maker.
But the way Tatiana Takaeva sees it, the San Francisco Bay Area is the perfect place for a Russian civil engineer with contemporary sensibilities to showcase some of the world's leading lines of modern, streamlined chairs, couches and home accessories.
Takaeva, a graduate of St. Petersburg's University of Architecture and Construction, recently opened one of San Francisco's newer showrooms for modern European manufacturers. The store is Arttitud, on Potrero Avenue, and Takaeva is the exclusive representative for Artifort, of Maastricht; ClassiCon, of Munich; SixInch, of Belgium; Ceccotti, of Italy; Wogg, of Switzerland; and others.
"I would never open a store like this in South Dakota," Takaeva said. "San Francisco is a magnet for creative people who appreciate art, even the corporate clients and the high-tech companies."
Her timing may be right on target.
San Francisco and the Bay Area have long been home to classical, traditional interior tastes, despite many interior designers' attempts to nudge their clients toward futuristic pieces in chrome, glass, foam and rubber. But the pendulum has begun to swing, as evidenced by the growing crowds attending the SF20/21 modern furniture show at Fort Mason, now in its fourth year; a shift toward the construction of lofts and high-rise condominiums along the Embarcadero whose model apartments are done in modern style, influencing the people who buy them; and the rise of a handful of mid-century modern furniture dealers, such as Monument in the Mission District, that expose consumers to wares that previously were unavailable here but that are ubiquitous in New York and Los Angeles.
Arttitud is styled like a modern art museum gallery, with white walls and floors that offset select pieces of colorful furniture in minimalist fashion.
They include Pierre Paulin's ribbon chair for Artifort, a classic created in 1966 and still in production; the Wiggleworm chaise longue by SixInch; and the Twenty Two chair by Jaime Hayon for Ceccotti, made of 22 pieces of maple stained dark brown, with upholstered seat and backrest. On the walls hang pieces of abstract and figurative art by local painters including Terbo Ted, Tobias Tovera and Jerry Frost.
Takaeva became interested in modern furniture while in school, when representatives from Italy's Salone Internazionale del Mobile - the International Furniture Fair of Milan - came to St. Petersburg to set up offices to promote the show and Italian design, as well as recruit interior designers and salespeople to work with Italian lines. During the past 15 years, she has attended the expo and developed relationships with various furniture lines, but more important, formed a love of modern design's clean lines. It came in stark contrast to St. Peterburg, which was founded by Peter the Great on swampland, with buildings evoking Italian and French architecture and, later, Stalinist complexes.
"From a very young age I was attracted to newness, quite separate from the city's imposing structural statements of self," she said. "Partially in reaction, I was attracted strongly to clean lines, efficient structures and buildings made to look both thoroughly functional and weightless."
After college, Takaeva lived briefly in London, then moved to Southern California, drawn by an English-language program in La Jolla. There, she married a lawyer and real estate developer. Together, they bought, redesigned and sold homes for a living. After a divorce, Takaeva, who now had two children, moved to San Francisco, where the couple had had a second home.
In addition to residential clients, she is aiming for corporate customers, particularly tech startups, green industries and children's hospitals.
"The best thing about the lines I stock is that they have transformative power," she said. "They are unique and so strong in their design aesthetic and commitment to delivering forms and new materials that they can deeply change the experience of space and can energize anything."
To match the entrepreneurial spirit of the region, she is using the showroom space in multiple ways - to host after-hours parties, allow filmmakers to shoot movie scenes and to act as a center for architectural groups wishing to host small design charrettes.
It's an ambitious slate for someone relatively new to the city's interior design scene, but look no further than the name of the store - a combination of the words "art" and "attitude," to understand where she's coming from.
"The world is illusion, so you get what you create," Takaeva said, paraphrasing her favorite self-help book author, Richard Bach. "If you dream, dream big."

E-mail Carolyne Zinko at czinko@sfchronicle.com.

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Russian Art Festival Arttitud San Francisco. 16 may 2014.

Russian Art Festival Arttitud San Francisco. 16 may 2014.
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