About the works of Malka Tsentsiper

Malka Tsentsiper works in different genres, techniques and materials: she creates sculpture, paints landscapes and still lifes, masterfully combining reality and abstraction, using for each of them a unique artistic language. Although extremely versatile, Malka’s painting, graphics and sculpture are dedicated to one large Jewish theme, bringing humor and universal human warmth to the forefront of her creation. She creates her own happy and romanticized world, revealing to viewers its different aspects in each new work.

Malka devotes herself fully to canvas, colors, clay and form. The material, “charged” by the artist, responds with a powerful stream of energy. Each work is full of passion and temperament – it is felt in every line, in every brushstroke, in the entire palette. Malka discovers in modern life the “eternal” images, coming to life again and again.

It is not easy to define the main qualities of the artist’s talent. One thing is obvious: Malka Tsentsiper bestows joy upon us, attunes us to happiness and keeps us there. Her works are very different and yet so easily recognizable. The artist follows her own path in art; she is true to herself, to her creative intuition and to her lifelong credo.

Olga Morozova
Ph.D. in Art History
Senior Curator, A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Mosca