On 19 March 2005 the Youth Center of the State Hermitage hosted a presentation of Marina Koldobskaya's works entitled Agitfarfor-2 and her Master Class How to Spoil the China. The events come within the framework of the educational program on Modern Art in Petrograd, Leningrad, Petersburg. The 20th Century which is run by S.V. Kudryavtseva, director of the State Hermitage Youth Center and doctor of art history.

Marina Koldobskaya is an artist, curator, and director of the State Center of Modern Art in Petersburg. She is an organizer and participant in numerous art exhibitions. She works in the fields of painting, objects and installations.

Koldobskaya has been working on the AGITFARFOR project since 1999. This entails applying designs to finished ceramics using markers and presents a parody of "serious" industrial technology while at the same time achieving interesting graphical, painterly and textural effects. The playful nature of the painting steers clear of folk, archaic and children's work. It parodies the pathos of Soviet propaganda porcelain (Agitfarfor).

Master class on How to Spoil the China.
Together with the presentation of her art works, the artist conducted a Master Class in which she revealed her know how and commented on the way she uses various technical approaches in her work.

Marina Koldobskaya, artist

The Agitfarfor-2 Projectl

Works by Marina Koldobskaya

Youth Center staff.
A rehearsal before
the start of
the Master Class

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