Tatyana Binovskaya- artist

https://youtu.be/ezC5nIm-GdY Noordhoek Beach is something infinitely and incredibly beautiful. I never get tired of capturing its beauty and sharing it with you again and again. I am happy that in my life I had such an opportunity to walk and enjoy this eternal spectacle! Пляж Нордока! Пляж Нордока - це щось нескінченно і неймовірно прекрасне. Я не втомлююсь знімати його красу і ділитися з вами, ще й ще раз. Я щаслива тим, що в мене була така можливість гуляти і насолоджуватися цим вічним видовищем!  

Maria Sinbade. I already told you that I lost photos of several years and now I am restoring the events from those that have been saved on FB and other social networks. So that's how I discovered a photo of the work of a very famous South African artist Maria Sinbade. I don't remember where they were made. I first saw her work at the National Gallery and am posting a link to the exhibition in which they were presented. And now I have picked up information about the artist and will be happy to share it with you. http://binovskaya.com/exhibition-in-the-national-gallery-cape-town/ Mary Sibande (born 11 April 1982) is a South African artist based in Johannesburg. Her art consists of sculptures, paintings, photography, and design. Sibande uses these mediums and techniques to help depict the human form and explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context.   Mary Sibande was born in Barberton, South Africa. In 2004 she received a Diploma in Fine Arts from W...

Checkers I have several photos of one of our visits to the Checkers supermarket. There are several leading supermarket chains in South Africa, one of the most expensive and claims to be elite is Woolworths. There are always very high prices. And Checkers is the most popular supermarket chain and this time it gave us real pleasure, dumping a whole mountain of huge teddy bears in the middle of the trading floor! You will see for yourself how cool it is to bury your head in this fun pile. This is such a promotional move - I'm sure you would like it too if you got there with us. Чекерс У мене збереглося кілька фотографій одного з наших відвідувань супермаркету Чекерс. У Південній Африці є кілька провідних мереж супермаркетів, однією з найдорожчих і елітних, що претендують на звання, є Вулворс. Там завжди дуже великі ціни. А Чекерс- це найпопулярніша мережа супермаркетів і цього разу вона принесла нам справжнє задоволення, виваливши посеред торговельного залу цілу гору величезних плюшев...

Friday. News and feelings from Limassol. Aphrodite Amathusia Cultural Center A couple of days ago, I caught myself in a strange and alien feeling to me - hatred. How has the war changed us? I could not imagine that I would feel such a terrible hatred for the rashists. Limassol is a city where a lot of Russians live, almost everyone here knows the language and signs and advertisements, everything is in this enemy language. They surround us. Even the owner of our apartment, to whom we pay rent, is Russian. And it seemed, so what, these people left their country long ago, and they are unlikely to be involved in our problems, but it turned out that during this time, hatred overwhelmed me to the ears and I can’t fight with myself. In March, when we returned from Cape Town with Radu, we changed location and now we live a stone's throw from the embankment and naturally, we often go for a walk. One day we found a nice house gallery of Aphrodite, right on the shore. She reminded us of our M...

Ode to the squid at Roux Cafe. Noordhoek. I have a special relationship with squid. As a child, I was not very disposed to seafood, although my mother adored fish. She took real pleasure in eating fried steers. When my children were growing up and squid carcasses were available in stores, I often cooked them and I know that they only need to be boiled for a few minutes, otherwise, they will turn into inedible rubber. But Africa, Cape Town, and Noordhoek appeared in our life. And in Noordhoek in the entertainment village - the center of the Region there is a cafe called RU. And they cooked squids in it, which became for me the best squids in the world! Why in the world, you ask, because they are not prepared anywhere else. Wherever I am, I always try to find analogs, but I have never succeeded. These were served as a salad with little papadyu peppers and were obscenely tender and amazingly delicious. But time goes by, and now the menu has changed in Roux and they no longer serve such, m...

Cape Town. My portraits. Nadia Koehn and her children. Rada has many friends in Cape Town and I like my daughter's attitude towards her friends. I've been disillusioned with friendship for a long time. I have had the sad experience of betraying those I considered my true friends. Interestingly, the shadow of these old betrayals from time to time haunts me to this day. Despite all this, I have real friends and I am sure they will remain for the rest of my life. But today the story is not about my former and current friends, but about my daughter's friends and portraits. Rada has a girlfriend, it seems to me that she is a former Odesa woman named Nadya. Nadia married a wealthy and not very young South African man. They own a beautiful house in one of the best areas of Cape Town, Fresnaye, and also have a hotel in Italy. In general, they do not live in poverty. Based on this, I painted a formal portrait of Nadia and also portraits of her children. Unfortunately, I still have a...

Cape Town. Family portraits. My children and grandchildren are lucky - I constantly paint their portraits. Whether they love them or not is their choice, the main thing is that when I miss them, I can paint their portraits for myself. And they will remain in time. In general, the portrait in my artwork, perhaps takes the very first place.            I adore people, I adore beautiful images and it gives me great pleasure to paint them. During my stay in Cape Town, I painted 4 portraits, two of them - Benjamin and Charlotte, I show you now, and I will tell you about the rest in my next stories.   Кейптаун. Сімейнi портрети. Моїм дітям та онукам щастить – я постійно пишу їхні портрети. Люблять вони їх чи ні- це їхній вибір, головне те, що я в момент коли сумую за ними, я можу написати для себе їхні портрети. І вони залишаться у часі. Взагалі портрет у моїй творчості, мабуть займає найперше місце. Я обожнюю людей, я обожнюю красиві образи та мені приносить...