Curalotodo
Solo exhibition by Lentov
Presented by Galerie TONKA at L Galerie
18 rue Henri Chevreau, 75020 Paris
Mon. - Fri: 3 pm - 7 pm . Weekend: 2 pm - 6 pm
From April 17 to 23, 2024
Opening: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Under the pseudonym «Lentov», artist, illustrator, graphic designer and tattoo artist Elena Fuks presents her Paris solo show «Curalotodo» in collaboration with TONKA at the L galerie.
In Spanish, «Curalotodo» means «panacea», a universal remedy that cures all ills. With this exhibition title, the artist wants to remind us that even in dark times, we possess our «curalotodo» - a sparkling world governed by love and the notion of happiness.
Lentov, whose real name is Elena Fuks, is an artist, illustrator and tattoo artist. She lives and works in Barcelona.
Between paintings, illustrations, the world of design, fashion and the art of tattooing, Lentov mixes different artistic languages, styles and techniques to create universes that are both familiar and dreamlike, with lively colors.
The artist has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide, in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Cologne, Venice... «Curalotodo» is Lentov's 9th solo exhibition.
Conversations légères
Solo exhibition by Daria Krotova
Presented by Galerie TONKA at L Galerie
18 rue Henri Chevreau, 75020 Paris
Mon. - Fri: 3 pm - 7 pm . Weekend: 2 pm - 6 pm
From November 22 to 28, 2023
Opening: Thursday, November 23, 2023
The observation of nature and the perishable nature of things are at the heart of Daria Krotova's work. Her interventions fix the transitory states of objects, as metaphors for our lives. If imitation of nature plays a part in this approach to art, it is to better confront living matter and the degradation of natural elements caused by time. Between organic forms, mundane objects and quotations from Italian painting, the artist acts in the manner of a lead, bringing together an element from one culture with another.
A snail under a cloth
A collective exhibition presented by the TONKA gallery at the Floréal Belleville exhibition space
ceramics, drawings, prints
43 rue des Couronnes in Paris
From April 21 to 24, 2022
With artists :
Ambartsum Kabanyan, Anatole Tièche, Anna Dial, Daria Galeeva, Daria Krotova, Dmitry Bulnygin, Ekaterina Kameneva, Juliette Vivien, Karla Tobón Pumarada, Lentov, Lota Lota, Masha Egorova, Marusia Nizovtsova, Nadia Likhogrud, Paulina Siniatkina, Shuling Liu, Zina Isaeva, Zina Isupova
The ephemeral gallery TONKA brings together ceramic works, sculptures and unique pieces of about twenty ceramists and visual artists. Under the funny title "A snail under a cloth" the exhibition - in the manner of this surprise guest - also reveals collages, sketches, drawings and prints.
What unites the artists at Floréal Belleville? Ceramics, at the beginning, but also their bias of a surprise in the medium, which makes everyday objects rise in colors, disguises them or reinvents them. Their artistic approaches, all very different, assert themselves in a search for the singular and an attention to the things that surround them. To see the extraordinary in the ordinary, the artists use trompe-l'oeil, but also the change of scale, where the object becomes miniature.
Perhaps for this reason, the exhibition evokes in its scenography the world of tales and childhood: the proportions are distorted or go from the very large to the very small, while the distinction between real and fiction, between true and false is blurred in the simplicity of forms and play.
The artists with the TONKA gallery will donate a part of the sale of Atelier d'Artistes en Exil, to support Ukrainian and Russian artists in the current context of war in Ukraine.
Louise Morin, Marina Antsiperova, Natalia Kudryavtseva
Tamed nature
9.10.2021 — 21.10.2021. 78 rue de Turenne, Paris
The nomad Tonka gallery presents the Russian-Georgian couple of young artists Pasternak-Totibadze. Alexandra Pasternak is the great-granddaughter of the writer Boris Pasternak, while Anton Totibadze comes from the family of famous Georgian realist painters. Despite their academic training in painting, they are driven by the idea of beauty and freedom rather than by the classical school or an unambiguous vision of art.
What unites these young artists is undoubtedly a shared vision, and disobedience to artistic hierarchies. Anton Totibadze's still-lifes are scenes of nihilism and mockery: a seagull and its food pictured against the sea, weightless oranges, or the reflections of a glass of beer next to an empty plate.
Anton's neatness is also inherent to Alexandra Pasternak's work, but hers are landscapes painted from life. Her perspectives, depicting mountain ranges with clear skies and green valleys dotted with occasional sparse Cubist dwellings, evoke associations with tamed nature. Like in the works of her companion, these fragments of orderliness refer to a playful universe, an imaginary world far removed from rationality.
For their first exhibition in Paris, Anton Totibadze and Alexandra Pasternak reproduced their impressions of Georgia, which they explored during the summer, moving from the mountain ranges to the Black Sea coastline and to the arid regions with vineyards. Views captured from the road are revealed in panoramic shots, and the nature, as depicted by Alexandra Pasternak and Anton Totibadze, is exalted: simple, yet fascinating, and neatly carved.
Alexandra Pasternak and Anton Totibadze live and work between Moscow and Tbilisi; this is their first exhibition in Paris. They will be present at the opening of the exhibition to talk about their work and to invite their audience to the opening of the Tonka Gallery.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and silver prints made by Anton Totibadze on the roads of Georgia and printed manually in Paris for the exhibition.
