Tamara Zaitseva Biography

Yalta, Ucrania, 1970

Tamara Zaitseva studied Biological Sciences in the University of Yalta and at the same time she took music and dance lessons. Later, she enrolled in the School of Art in Yalta to study painting. In 1992 se moved to Italy. Since 1998 she lives in Barcelona. She has exhibited individually in Galería Carpe Diem in Palafrugell (Girona), Galería La Santa, Galería Rose Selavy and the Galería Trama in Barcelona. Among her collective exhibitions is worth mentioning her participation in the exhibition Art Emergent, directed by Juan Buffil inside the Feria Art Expo 2001 (Barcelona), New Art´01 in Galería Rose Selavy and New Art´02 with Galería Trama. She also participated in the exhibition (Rew)visions in Trama, 2002. Recently, her work participated in group shows in La Santa and Flamicell in Barcelona.

Her pictorial work is currently rediscovering the intense color reflected to the expectator, giving room for the visual strenght of her work, The optical effects are present in her paintings and they are the result of the gestual element that articulates the compositions and shapes. However, the gesture leaves the randomness, present in her previous work, showing now a direction, a sense. The fusion between color and line, more poingant every time, creates an atmosphere of harmony in which the musicality and rithm of the paintings are evident.