My works are a constant dialogue between color and form, between memory and contemporaneity. I am interested in the ways that the strict, almost dogmatic structure of a Socialist Realist composition coexists with the irrational freedom of color, with its sensuality and audacity.
I am inspired by Matisse and the Nabis artists, but in my works, color is not historical — it is acidic, industrial, scintillating, or coarse; it breathes the air of our own day, responding to plastic, the noise of the city, and the aggression of the environment.
I look for the moment when form still holds but is already starting to tremble like a voice. This fragility, for me, is an honest way to speak about modern life.
I am inspired by Matisse and the Nabis artists, but in my works, color is not historical — it is acidic, industrial, scintillating, or coarse; it breathes the air of our own day, responding to plastic, the noise of the city, and the aggression of the environment.
I look for the moment when form still holds but is already starting to tremble like a voice. This fragility, for me, is an honest way to speak about modern life.
Artist statement
Born in Ufa, Russia, in 1994. In 2015, he graduated from the Painting Department of the Ufa College of Arts, and in 2023, from the Monumental and Decorative Sculpture Department of the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Design and Applied Arts.
The artist’s primary medium is painting, yet even when working on canvas, Alexey thinks in terms of volume, weight, and mass: color is the cornerstone of his work, but his perspective is equally shaped by sculptural form. And no matter how monumental the figures in his paintings may appear — be it women, birds, or animals — there is always a sense of vulnerability, fragility, a subtle fissure within them.
The artist’s primary medium is painting, yet even when working on canvas, Alexey thinks in terms of volume, weight, and mass: color is the cornerstone of his work, but his perspective is equally shaped by sculptural form. And no matter how monumental the figures in his paintings may appear — be it women, birds, or animals — there is always a sense of vulnerability, fragility, a subtle fissure within them.
2025
blazar Young Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow
Solo exhibition, Progress Café-Bar, Moscow
Solo exhibition, Progress Café-Bar, Moscow
Russian Art Week, Moscow
Solo exhibition, Progress Café-Bar, Moscow
Solo exhibition, Progress Café-Bar, Moscow
2023
Solo exhibition, Progress Café-Bar, Moscow
Group exhibition ARS IUVENIS, Tunnel Gallery, Moscow
Group exhibition ARS IUVENIS, Tunnel Gallery, Moscow
2024
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