Anfisa Kass

Художник Киев-Берлин

Painting · Ukraine

Born in the city of Kyiv. She has been professionally engaged in painting since the age of 5. She studied at an art school in Kyiv. She graduated from the European Design School with a degree in Interior Design. She works in interior design and decoration. She has experience working as a television presenter, hosting the programme «Модна правда» on the O-TV channel. The work of the artist Kass portrays the woman in society as an active subject of that society, a mother, a wife, a creative personality, beautiful outside and within. She is concerned with questions of spiritual growth and a woman's self-realisation in society. With every year the desire to express her feelings in painting grows stronger, which has been especially successfully realised in her paintings. In 2016 she was selected and published in the international catalogue of contemporary painting MUSA INTERNATIONAL ART SPACE «WE CONTEPORARI». In March 2017 a painting by Kass was presented at the prestigious exhibition in Paris «WOMAN'S ESSENCE PARISrn2017». The project consisted of an exposition of paintings by women artists from all over the world in the centre of Paris, in a prestigious location, and an Artbook with criticism by Prof. Laura Francesca di Trapani. At this exhibition Kass was awarded the «Womanrnart award» dedicated to Berthe Morisot. Kass's motto is «Life is emotions, and emotions are colour!» That is why in her works she gives preference to bright and pure colours. On 18 November 2015 the first art exhibition «Оголені почуття» by the artist Kass opened in Kyiv. The artist presented her paintings in the AMD Design Club art space. On 14 June 2016 Kass's second exhibition took place — «Дві історії» at the «Шоколадний будиночок» museum at 17/2 Shovkovychna St. 1 In her works the artist draws on female sensory experience, a feeling for the world and its mysterious signs, and an understanding of colour, which she reflects in her paintings. These are bright, contrasting and vivid works with memorable images and conceptual stories behind their creation. She paints in various techniques. Oil, acrylic, stained glass on glass, batik. Her works are held in private collections in Ukraine. In 2016 she transferred her paintings onto silk and used prints of her paintings in the design of knitwear clothing for adults and children under her own brand «ACCENT by Anfisa Kazanikova». She makes brooches by hand. In the summer of 2017 the «Bal des Fleurs» took place in Monaco, at which works from the «Оголені почуття» series were presented; after the exhibition the works were displayed and sold at the «Gallery Saleya» in Nice and in Cannes at «Gallery Saleya».