From Tel Aviv with LOVE
Daddies. A serene morning. The Sabbath will begin soon. You can forget about all the Important things to do and slowly talk to a friend whom you haven't seen for 100 years, and today you accidentally met on the corner of Pines Street. This street crosses the Neve Tzedek district, one of the oldest districts in Tel Aviv. Time is frozen in its narrow streets and no one is in a hurry.
The artist, Evygenia Shaposhnikov, arrived from Russia just a year ago. She fell in love with the bustling streets of Tel Aviv - its colorful population, buildings, embankments, boulevards. She called this series of works "These drawings smell of falafel".
Nahalat Binyamin. The streets of Tel Aviv are characterized by chaos and crowding. They reign in the architecture of buildings, in the clutter of outdoor cafes and garbage cans, in the cacophony of smells and sounds. The Nahalat Binyamin street area is no exception. Friday morning people meet in the cafe, chat, laugh. All the tables are occupied. It's only morning yet, and the waiters are already tired. Music is rumbling, and explosions are rumbling several hundred kilometers away. The usual thing.
Rothschild Boulevard. Portrait. This is the very first work from a series of drawings about Tel Aviv. In the center of the city, where there is so much glass and concrete, a small palm grove got lost, and a small old mansion got lost among the palm trunks. It got lost in time and in the space of a modern city. It is looking for and cannot find a way out.
As a girl, Evygenia learned drawing at an art school, then she took drawing courses at the institute. She received her degree in architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineers in St. Petersburg. For many years she worked as an interior designer in various architectural firms, and she also made illustrations for a publishing house that specialized in educational literature. Several times she took part in art exhibitions in St. Petersburg.
Evygenia, together with her husband and her mother, repatriated to Israel in 2023. Their decision to repatriate was based not so much because of their Jewish origin, but because they disagreed with the policies of the Russian government.
She always dreamed of a destiny as a professional artist. Maybe in Israel this dream is destined to come true.
Evygenia was born and lived all her life in St. Petersburg. Her parents named her Evygenia after one of her grandmothers, but she usually signs her art works as Gane Gee: this is how her friends of her youth called her when they travelled a lot and laughed at everything in the world.
Evygenia's drawings on Tel Aviv can be purchased both at:
Gallery Bauhaus, 77 Dizengoff Street, Tel AvivMichaelson
Applied Art Gallery, 4 Avraham Stern Street, Florentin, Tel Aviv
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