Natella Toidze is one of the well-known artists who are in demand today, having their spectators and admirers, and not only in the capital’s cultural circles. In the last few years, its large, retrospective exhibitions have successfully passed in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, Paris, Vologda, Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod.

Natella Toidze possesses a recognizable author’s handwriting and a high pictorial culture, embedded in the family, for several generations associated with art. To this artistic dynasty belonged the grandfather of the artist, Mose Toidze – a painter, a pupil of Ilya Repin, one of the founders of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, father, Georgy Toidze, a well-known sculptor and graphic artist, and uncle, poster Irakli Toidze, author of the famous poster “Rodina- mother calls. ” Among the first women – professional painters of Russia was the grandmother of the artist, Alexander Soutine, who graduated from the Orthodox iconography class of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

N.Toidze was born and grew up in Moscow, where she graduated from the faculty of theatrical and decorative art (the course of T.Selvinskaya) of the Moscow Academic Art School in memory of 1905. Studying at this faculty allowed N. Toidze to discover a new understanding of the space and scale of the canvas. In her professional development, the traditions of the Moscow Painting School became fundamental. At the same time, the artist mentions her father as the first and main teacher: having allowed her to work in her studio on a par with students, since childhood Georgiy Toidze has set serious creative tasks before his daughter, including sculptural ones. Choosing easel painting, over the years she successfully works in different genres: landscape, still-life, portrait, writes allegorical compositions.

Since 1973, Natella Toidze has regularly participated in Moscow, All-Union and All-Russian exhibitions. In 1984 she joined the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 2004, after a solo exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Since 2007, Natella Toidze is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, since 2011 she has been a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Participated in exhibitions at the State Museum in Beijing, Lincoln Center in New York, in Lisbon, etc.

Natella Toidze’s works are distinguished by an individual, established author’s handwriting, a high pictorial culture, incorporating the traditions of Russian and Georgian art schools. A characteristic feature of N.Toidze’s work is the indispensable presence in her painting of a dramatic beginning, which is evident even with high decorative, pronounced ornamental paintings (“Wild Grapes”, “Early Summer”).

The current exhibition includes both the early works of N. Toidze, and the newly created paintings. The landscapes painted in the pasty “temperamental” manner, the close painting of the “Jack of Diamonds” and complicated by composition, exquisite still lifes coexist with the restrained landscapes of the middle zone of Russia (“Moskovskiy dvorik”, polyptych “Northern mallow”) in color.

The creative method of the artist is work by all means from nature, where she creates landscapes, still lifes, portraits. In the last decade, N. Toidze often chooses a large format of canvases, and at any time of the year he writes them not in the studio, but exclusively in the open air, despite the technical difficulties of performing such works. In such paintings, the author’s special ability to emphasize the poetry of everyday life is clearly visible, it is picturesque to generalize it and to show the world from an unusual point of view, turning it into a complex pattern (Augustus, Before the Snow).

The underlined, even somewhat hyperbolized decorativism, which evokes associations with the European art of the era of symbolism, is characteristic of another layer of N.Toidze’s works – metaphorical compositions (diptych “Flora and Fauna”, diptych “Entract”).

The exhibition presents more than 60 works by Natella Toidze from the collection of the author, the Russian Academy of Arts and private collections. The exhibition includes both early works created in the 1970s and recently written. The exposition includes all genres in which the artist works – landscape, still life, allegorical paintings. The works of Natella Toidze are in museums and private collections in Russia, as well as in private collections in France, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Finland, the USA.

The cost of admission is 100 rubles.