The article is devoted to the analysis of the functioning of metamodernism in the contemporary fine arts of Russia. Metamodernism is a new chronotypological stage, which boundaries were outlined in the works of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Acker. Researchers of metamodernism define its markers: reconstruction, neo-romanticism, new sincerity, oscillation, performatism, etc. Metamodernism is a “structure of feeling”, a reflection on existing reality that translates human experiences in the modern era. Metamodern artists reflect individual or collective emotional states and experiences from the perspective of the metamodern structure of feeling. The author analyzes the markers of metamodernism in contemporary Russian fine art by using examples of the work of Olga Molchanova-Permyakova (Perm). The material for the research includes the main works (2015-2020) and a research interview with O. Molchanova-Permyakova. As a key methodology, the author uses semiotic and formal-stylistic methods to investigate the artist's paintings. The author comes to the conclusion that through such markers of metamodernism as oscillation, neo-romanticism and appeal to the phenomenon of “new sincerity”, the artist, based on personal sensory experience creates a sincerely experienced reality on his personal myth. The main plots appeal to the oscillating meta-narratives: life / death and man / nature. The works of art in question are full of oscillations between archetypes, sensory categories and sensations. The constructed reality of Olga Molchanova-Permyakova on the one hand is mythical, strange or sentimental. On the other hand, familiar and sincere. The artist addresses the themes of fear, hidden emotional states, connection with nature, birth and death – all those states that every person experience.
The article is devoted to the analysis of the functioning of metamodernism in the contemporary fine arts of Russia. Metamodernism is a new chronotypological stage, which boundaries were outlined in the works of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Acker. Researchers of metamodernism define its markers: reconstruction, neo-romanticism, new sincerity, oscillation, performatism, etc. Metamodernism is a “structure of feeling”, a reflection on existing reality that translates human experiences in the modern era. Metamodern artists reflect individual or collective emotional states and experiences from the perspective of the metamodern structure of feeling. The author analyzes the markers of metamodernism in contemporary Russian fine art by using examples of the work of Olga Molchanova-Permyakova (Perm). The material for the research includes the main works (2015-2020) and a research interview with O. Molchanova-Permyakova. As a key methodology, the author uses semiotic and formal-stylistic methods to investigate the artist's paintings. The author comes to the conclusion that through such markers of metamodernism as oscillation, neo-romanticism and appeal to the phenomenon of “new sincerity”, the artist, based on personal sensory experience creates a sincerely experienced reality on his personal myth. The main plots appeal to the oscillating meta-narratives: life / death and man / nature. The works of art in question are full of oscillations between archetypes, sensory categories and sensations. The constructed reality of Olga Molchanova-Permyakova on the one hand is mythical, strange or sentimental. On the other hand, familiar and sincere. The artist addresses the themes of fear, hidden emotional states, connection with nature, birth and death – all those states that every person experience.