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Saxophone music in colors at Staatstheater Karlsruhe

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Sound as color, a powerful saxophone painting in oil, dynamic, tactile, collectible.

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Saxophone motif & effect

This painting elevates the saxophone to an icon of improvisation and musical expression. Even at first glance, the energy created by the bright red and yellow tones is striking. They are juxtaposed with cool white areas that seem like short pauses for breath between two melodies. Black lines structure the composition rhythmically - comparable to the beats that determine the pulse of jazz. The diagonal composition leads the eye across the instrument and creates a perceptible suction effect. In this way, sound is transformed into color, music into painting, and the viewer experiences a synesthetic connection between seeing and hearing.

Technology & color tone

The technique of this work emphasizes its expressive effect. The impasto oil painting, partly applied with a palette knife, creates a relief-like surface that lends depth and vibrancy. Irregular edges, superimposed layers of paint and deliberate contrasts give the painting a constantly changing appearance. Yellow and ochre tones symbolize light, radiance and the stage. Red stands for passion, energy and the improvised fire of jazz. Black serves as a counterpoint that focuses and grounds, while the light areas open up the composition and create balance. Together, they create a vibrant sound of color that makes the essence of the saxophone - its melodiousness, its dynamics and its unmistakable expression - immediately tangible.

Interior effect & collector's value

This painting is more than just decoration - it is a statement piece. It is ideal for music rooms, modern lofts, bars, foyers and creative workspaces. It looks particularly harmonious in combination with dark woods, industrial metal accents or neutral concrete tones. Its clear, yet expressive design language makes it versatile to combine and timelessly contemporary. For collectors, it is a work with a high recognition value: an unmistakable style, a confident signature and a theme with international resonance. It combines artistic quality with emotional depth - and invites you to make music visible.

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Nina Nikonenko is an artist from Ukraine

Nina Nikonenko - Vita | Plein Air Artist & Painter from Ukraine

Born: April 5, 1984 in Sursko-Litovskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine
Lives and works in: Dnipro, Ukraine
Profession: Painter, lecturer, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine


Academic education

  • 2004 Graduated from Dnipropetrovsk State Art College
  • 2008 Bachelor in Fine Arts at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev
  • 2010 Master's degree in the studio of Prof. Mykhailo Guida at the same academy, Kiev

Artistic profile

Nina Nikonenko is an internationally active Ukrainian painter with a focus on Plein Air Painting, Landscapes, Still life and lyrical portraits. Her artistic signature combines classical academic training with a modern color language and a deep emotional connection to the nature and culture of Ukraine. Her works are often created in the open air - plein air - This gives them a special light and color intensity.

Nikonenko is regarded as a representative of a contemporary painterly poetics, which in the Ukrainian landscape painting as well as in the symbolism of European art history. Particularly noteworthy is her ability to merge sound and image - as in her highly acclaimed project "Landscape of Music".


Important projects

  • "Landscape of Music" - An interdisciplinary exhibition in cooperation with the ARTgallery cellar and the Baden State Theater Karlsruhe | The cycle of works combined visual art with musical associations and showed 16 paintings that were created during an artistic residency in Germany.
  • "Plein Air Painting" - Live artwork in Desenzano del Garda with ARTgallery cellar | 2017.

Artistic focus

  • Plein Air Painting - Intensive observation of nature on site, atmospheric and atmospheric
  • Landscape painting - Lyrical expanses, impressions of Ukrainian nature, light and horizon
  • Still life - Symbolically charged imagery with clear composition and strong color effects
  • Portraits - intimate, often female characters full of grace, melancholy and inner strength

Stylistic features

  • Free, rhythmic brushstrokes
  • Harmonious color compositions
  • Combining tradition and modernity
  • Themes of Ukrainian folk culture, music, nature and joie de vivre

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016 "Landscape of Music" - ARTgallery-Keller & Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2016 "Landscape of Music" - ARTgallery-Keller - Messe Stuttgart - Awarded the 1st Critics' Prize
  • 2017, 2018, 2019 "Plein Air Painting" - ARTgallery-Keller - Exhibition ART Innsbruck, Innsbruck
  • 2019 "Plein Air Painting" - ARTgallery-Keller - AAF Stockholm, Stockholm
  • 2019 "Plein Air Painting" - ARTgallery-Keller - ART BODENSEE, Dornbirn
  • 2018 – 2025 "Plein Air Painting" - ARTgallery-Keller - in-house exhibitions, Germany

Works in collections

Private collections in:
Ukraine, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Serbia, China, Russia, Lebanon, Belarus

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Gewicht 5 kg
Größe 100 × 80 × 3 cm

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