Hanna Liubinskaya, an artist from Belarus, primarily works with painting as her preferred medium. In some works, she also includes additional elements to enhance the visual effect, such as fragments of gold leaf. Additionally, to give greater expressiveness and volume to the surface texture, the artist uses texture paste.
Liubinskaya’s painting fits into the European context of modern fine art. In the Tenderness series, the author confidently demonstrates techniques of modern painting—schematic plots, bright colors, and barely discernible emotions of the characters. In general, the artist’s pictorial style can be classified as a contemporary version of pop art, supplemented by elements of hyperrealism.
It is worth mentioning that Liubinskaya’s technique is quite variable and demonstrates references to more classical painting examples. The work from the Consciousness series clearly includes elements of surrealism.
The Trinity. From Conscieness series, acrylic, modeling paste, golden leaf, 2024
The author also actively experiments with the surface of the canvas. In the Lost in Texture series, the layer of texture paste is quite thin and can resemble embroidery. This technique, in general, blurs the boundaries of painting and brings it closer to an object.
Heart. From Lost in Texture series, acrylic, modeling paste, 2023
Separately, it is worth highlighting the series of works Vandal News, which has a clear social subtext and refers to street art. As if thrown into the air, French phrases painted on the pages of French newspapers demonstrate fatigue from the relentless news information flow.
C’est la vie. From Vandal News series, mixed media (newspapers, graffiti), 2024
The work of Hanna Liubinskaya is an example of decorative and interior art that lacks a stable connection to the context and an interest in a person, his emotions, feelings, and states.
At the same time, some of the artist’s works demonstrate elements of salon art (work from the Conscieness series) – deliberately graceful female images are devoid of individuality and the critical view of the author. In the ZOLOTO landscape series (its name is intentionally written in Russian but with the use of Latin letters), there is no reference to a place or a specific location, so the name of the series looks like a kind of claim to the landscapes in which the artist grew up, but does not justify itself (except, of course, the formal use of gold in the works).
Golden mean. From ZOLOTO series, acrylic, modeling paste, golden leaf, 2022-2024
One can generally note some unevenness in Liubinskaya’s creative “handwriting.” Behind the variability of the works and experiments lies the search for her own style, which the artist is looking for.
Lusya Yangirova, art historian
