«HERE THE PERSON ARISES FROM LACES …»

     In home-style cosy halls of the Moscow gallery of arts «Collosseo of Art» on street 4th Tver-Jamskaja, 23 picturesque cloths of modern Russian artists are usually exposed. But in the harmonious neighbourhood with them there was a personal exhibition of original decorative compositions of artist Tatyana Abramovoj.
     Muscovite Tatyana Abramova, by a trade the civil engineer, about 20 years has worked the teacher of chair «Reconstruction and restorations of buildings» architectural college. Unique objects were degree projects of its students real, at times: a building of branch of the Bolshoi theatre, a building of branch of Small theatre on Ordynka, school of a water colour of Andrijaki, some temples and many other sights of a cultural heritage of Moscow. Yes knowingly, it is visible, say that people at heart share the on созидателей and destroyers. Tatyana Abramova - from among the first and consequently even the free time has devoted to rare hobby - to preservation of refined leaving olden time, once again having proved the gifted artist and the careful restorer, but already in other, much more gentle and thin area, than building and architecture …
     In her family, with good Moscow traditions, «signs of lovely olden time» were carefully stored: laces, rags from magnificent dresses, beads, beads, buttons, cards, fans, hats, gloves, handbags, even porcelain figurines. Everything that made special, full of harmony and grace, the female world of our great-grandmothers. But many ancient bagatelles too are subject to relentless time. Sometimes, having served not to one generation of lovely young ladies, old laces are scattered in ashes, shabby there are magnificent fabrics and embroideries, the paper … turns to a decay
    Once, touching family relics, Tatyana with surprise has noticed that from a slice of an ancient lace as though "looks through" an amusing female face. The imagination "has finished" an image – a hat, a dress, shoes, ornaments. The antiquarian materials collected in a unique decorative composition, issued as a subject of an ornament of an interior, have found the second life. And again became admiration subjects. So the original artistic touch not only preservations of rarities, but also their original use in a modern interior was born.
     Laborious work and search of olden time among acquaintances, antiquaries and on flea markets brought the huge creative pleasure, new opening, the house was occupied all by new and new products, and almost on everyone – a female image, a sight from the remote past … Therefore also a collection from 25 decorative compositions (ассамбляжей), Tatyana «Images of the past» named. Images many-sided, with different mood, in everyone – the highlight, behind everyone – the history. Gentle young ladies, the effective temptress, the bright singer from Mulen-Ruzh …
All subjects of graceful olden time the artist before to use in work also restores, studies, in detail describes in the original "certificate" accompanying each work! Its decorative compositions need to be examined steadfastly: after all under glass – as if a tiny museum show-window in which with thin female taste and knowledge of a subject things about which we, present, could read only in books are collected or did not hear at all. You know, for example, that such блондовое a lace? And a lace Irish? And the Bruxelles application? And laces a pointe-ljas and sorti-de-bal? And the gas-shifon embroidered by metal cut beads? And silk gas? And a taffeta shan-zhan? And whether it was possible to you to see figured пайетки? And silk pompons heated? And whether you know, what such аграмант?
     Tatyana Abramovu is inspired by refined style of the end XIX - the beginnings of the XX-th century which in France named an art nouveau, in Germany – югендстиль, in Austria – сецессион, in Italy – либерти, in Spain – модернисмо, and in Russia and England more often, - a modernist style. This new style has been closely connected with symbolism, the style dominating in the literature to which many Russian poets of "silver age" have paid a tribute. In their verses laces as a symbol of ease, lightness, dream and a dream are often mentioned. These verses by all means you recollect, enjoying Tatyana Abramovoj's works, enduring the whole scale of feelings. Also it is recollected цветаевское: «… I think of a dark hall, about a velvet inclined to laces …», or ахматовское: «… the laughter will manage under a mask lace crafty to muffle …», or гумилевское: «… gold from laces of pinkish Brabant cuffs … is strewed»
     Not casually one of the compositions the artist named Igor Severjanina's words – «the Queen of queens …» And just as illustrations to Tatyana Abramovoj's works sound lines of "the king of poets»: «From pale-yellow the most thin вязи laces on slopes of shoulders - подобье an epaulette... Her eyes, all world having disarmed, attracted to itself …». Or Andrey Belogo: «I remember in snow silver bashfully trembled shoulders in the Marseilles white laces. You have fallen into a reverie at a portiere …» Or Alexander Bloka: «There, in a night howling icy cold, in the field of stars I have found a ring. Here the person arises from laces, there is from laces a person …»
… Surprising on beauty the lovely trifles created by skilful hands of skilled workers-seamstresses on a boundary XIX - the XX-th centuries and up to that moment bear the power, capable to fill any modern interior the refined crape of kind olden time, grace of the left epoch. And, means, in some measure, to transform surrounding space and all our life, to help to come off at least for a minute modern vanity and to plunge into the magic world of the refined beauty and an elevated poetry.

Olga Zhukov, the culturologist