Date: FEB 04 – MAR 02, 2016

Venue: N2N GALLERY AT NATION TOWERS GALLERIA, ABU DHABI

Igor Shipilin, the acclaimed artist whose works are on display in the most prestigious museum of Russia – the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, is back to Abu Dhabi.

One year later, after his first successful solo exhibition ‘Life by the Sea’ brought to Abu Dhabi by N2N Gallery, Igor Shipilin is back in town with a new show: “Seasons”.

Showing a collection of 27 oil paintings, ‘Seasons’ is a story of incommensurable love towards Igor Shipilin’s beloved Crimea. A story that seems to have no end and that takes inexhaustible shapes and shades on the artist’s canvas. ‘Seasons’ is like a journey that carries the viewer through the soft light of the Crimean spring, through the fragrant and bright summer followed by the rich and colorful autumn, ending with the mild melancholic Crimean winter.

Igor Shipilin’s art parades natural and historical attractions as traditionally portrayed by artists from different eras, but at a first glimpse inconspicuous areas with a leisurely pace of life in small towns.

These are the places where the artist spent his childhood and youth, those places where you always want to go back to reflect and stop the running of time, to draw strength and inspiration in healing the soul with the simplicity of the usual life and environment – that’s the world of the works of Shipilin.