In 2017, Melisa Erdem, a student from The International School of Moscow, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and fought for her life in the intensive care unit. Fortunately, Melisa survived and soon was discharged from the hospital. Living with this horrific condition meant that Melisa would be tied to hospitals for the rest of her life. There was only one permanent solution – a heart transplant.
Although doctors, concerned with Melisa's state of health, first recommended delaying the operation to avoid possible complications, Melisa has recently got an infection, meaning her heart transplant surgery needs to take place as soon as possible.
Born out of hope and a genuine belief in people's kindness, 'Art to Heart' is an artistic cry for help and a glorious tribute to altruism. It's less of an ordinary exhibition or an auction and more of an immersive experience that invites you on a journey of empathy and creativity to the depths of Melisa's heart.
The auction will consist of two parts: Fine Art and Contemporary. You can participate in the auction both online at bidspirit.com and in person at Cube.Moscow at The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow.
Artists:
AM Group, Irina Babkina, Dmitry Berezovsky, Zhanna Bobrakova, Svetlana Bogacheva, Sergei Boyarintsev, Vladimir Vasiliev, Katya Garkushko, Noy Nestorovich Gedenidze, Ekaterina Gerasimenko, Maria Golovkina, Alisa Gorelova, Goodwin, Anya Zhelud, Dmitry Zheravov, Katya Zhingel, Tania Zhingel , Aleksadra Kokacheva, Sergey Kolosov, Nadya Kosinskaya, Anastasia Litvinova, Lena Lipatova, Sergey Lotsmanov, Victoria Malkova, Semyon Motolyanets, Daria Neretina, Alexandra Ominina, Gosha Ostretsov, Vova Perkin, Liza Plaksa, Danila Polyakov, Victor Ponomarenko, Ivan Razumnov, Maria Safronova, Anna Sedova Elephant, Anya Soz, Haim Sokol, Natalia Spechinskaya, Evgenia Sterlyagova, Liza Tokareva, Alexandra Fateeva, Katya Finkelstein, Alexander Florensky, Maria Kholmogorova, Vasya Horst, Nika Chernyaeva, Zhenya Sharvina, Elena Blagos, Brad Din Chapman, Lena Dmitrieff, Exantres, Dmitrieff Hörtnagl, Lisbeth Luft, Alex Sorbonne.
Auction curators:
Olga Lomanova, Fundraiser of the Ural Industrial Biennale
Katya Finkelstein, independent curator, artist
We would like to thank artists, parents of the school and all caring people who offered works from their collections for the auction, as well as those who took an active part in organizing the auction.
|
LOT 40:
One sculpture from the series, in mixed media, plaster, silicone, fabric, ceramic tiles 20x30 cm, 2020-2021. “In ...
more...
|
|
|
Start price:
18,000
p
Buyer's Premium: 0%
More details
|
One sculpture from the series, in mixed media, plaster, silicone, fabric, ceramic tiles 20x30 cm, 2020-2021. “In this series of sculptures, I continue to work on the theme of the psychological flow of living life hidden under the skin of household routine . A small man in a big world, in a big system of household rules. In this work, I wanted to show our fragility in this space of seemingly completely simple everyday actions: holding a rag, holding a fork, holding a razor… Why can these simple actions become unbearable at some point? What can make the hand holding the usual coffee cup tremble slightly?” The work was presented at the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, and other works in the series are in private collections.
Born and raised in St. Petersburg. As a child she finished the state art school (5 years). As the first professional higher education she graduated from the faculty of psychology (2007) and postgraduate (2013), then Kate Finkelstein got the supplementary professional education "Contemporary art" at The British higher school of art and design in 2019.
Since 2018 she has been actively exhibiting in Moscow, there are victories in art-competitions and open calls. Her works became participants of projects in 58th La Biennale di Venezia, 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, 1st Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives, 7th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art.
Artist is a resident of the work studious at the gallery “Elektrozavod" (Moscow).
Kate Finkelstein is one of the founders and organisers of the art community YRA! (Young Russian Artists), based in Moscow.
Since 2019 she keeps curatorial practices by organising contemporary art projects, one of them “Assemblage Points” became a part of the 8th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
The main idea of her art practice – to create art-work is to create a field of multidimensional human experience: “I do not make art-objects, I create art-fields”. The artist works mainly in the genre of site-specific installation using variety of mediums. Kate Finkelstein rethinks mental / conscious/ unconscious phenomena, creating bizarre forms – connects various objects, ready-mades, plants and tissues with silicone, soap and other materials. Also Kate Finkelstein works with photography, using cyanotype and printing on unusual objects.
