«CHINA» (private view on November 5)
Painting/graphics
In the gallery halls

This year I was lucky enough to visit Beijing in January, during New Year holidays. I stayed in the city for 25 days and started to feel myself in China not like a tourist, but to percept it like something dear and familiar. Sauntering, breathing in frosty air, drawing in my small sketchbook, peeping at various sacred animals in Taoist and Lamaist temples, absorbing the variety of red colors, I became happier and happier day by day. I want to share this happiness, which I felt when in China, with you.
In 2003 there was “Njanhua” exhibition of China folk New Year pictures in the Hermitage. I wanted to make a series of my own New Year “Njanhua” and write my own “Tsuhua tsesho” to them, i.e. explanations to New Year pictures, and to show it all in the Borey Art gallery. Really, Borey Art is not worse than the Hermitage!

                                                                                                  Julia Sopina