Painting on the books by St. Petersburg artist

• Painting on the books by St. Petersburg artist

Artist Catherine Panikanova creates multi-picture on the pages of old books, lecture notes and textbooks. Masterpieces Catherine blur the boundaries between art forms such as painting, installation and collage.

Panikanova Catherine was born in St. Petersburg in 1975, graduated from the Art School of the Hermitage Museum, now lives and works in Rome.

Today we will show you a series of works called Errata Corrige (translated as "work on the bugs"), where on canvas of old yellowed textbooks and lecture notes Catherine recreates his most vivid childhood memories.

Panikanova artist Catherine says: "In my work I use mostly used books that I find at flea markets in St. Petersburg, Rome and other cities and countries in which it happens.

This is mainly old textbooks and exercise books, technical literature, which has already served its purpose, and often her fate - to become waste paper.

It is important for me that the book has been read, was in the hands of someone else, such a book - personality, portrait of its former owner (or owners).

is often found in the fields of signs, drawings, inscriptions, some lines are underlined. this is what is of interest to me.

When reading text, viewing illustrations, I intuitively connect them into a kind of puzzle, which serves as a background image for the future. "