Yulia Dotsenko
Bio
Yulia Dotsenko is a UK-based Artist, Art Historian, and Environmental Designer. She holds an MLitt degree with distinction in History of Art and Art-World Practice from Christie’s Education (London) / the University of Glasgow (2018). Her program Art and Architecture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Renaissance investigated material culture from Mesopotamia to Europe c.1500 studying key formative stages of Western Art. She also studied at the Academy of Natalia Nesterova in Moscow, graduating in 2009 as the highest achiever for her thesis. In 2011, Dotsenko won the International Competition of Concepts “Space and the Future of Humanity.” Her work is exhibited internationally and is held in private and public collections worldwide. Her recent collaboration with the University of Exeter resulted in an Art-Science exhibition held at the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute which presented current world-leading research on wave energy extraction through a series of seascape paintings. Dotsenko’s current work focuses on major environmental problems such as climate change and its effects and is intended to raise public awareness to tackle these problems.
Title: Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (Sunken Cities 2100)
Year: 2019
Medium: Oil on canvas (digital painting); Giclee fine art print
Size: 140 x 105 cm
Edition: 1 of 25
About: The ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’ is first of a series of paintings devoted to the theme of climate change and rising sea levels and is part of the project ‘Sunken Cities 2100’. The project explores the potential effects of global warming, focusing on the problem of melting glaciers, submergence and flooding of coastal land. The project is inspired by the BP Exhibition “Sunken Cities: Egypt's lost worlds” which was held at the British Museum in 2016 and showcased ancient statues recovered from the submerged Egyptian cities of Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, that sank over 1,200 years ago. The ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’ depicts Bernini’s famous sculptural ensemble c.1647–1652 (Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome) featuring the angel with the golden spear and the swooning visionary nun, yet submerged, with seven fish hiding in a shadow. The aim of this artwork is to raise public awareness and to highlight the potential effects of climate change on the cultural and spiritual legacy of humanity. The ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’ is a digital painting, created in a natural painting software using traditional oil painting techniques (approximate time: 560 hours).