The exhibition room of Aleksei Fadeev
Here, the 'world' means any life. And any life is the consequence of the moments passed and those that are yet to come. The eternal battle between forces of the good and evil. The everlasting movement. The never ending birth...
The crimson matter opens the door into another reality, and who knows, maybe there is the picture of the future...
Birth, Origin. WHAT FOR, WHY, HOW? The Earth, the Moon and the Fetus. The cold stems are reaching toward the moonlight, their roots pulsate with warm blood. Is this emerging mind a byproduct of energy transformation or is it the Master's plan? Will the dust of the earth give a birth to Adam?
Let's wait for the full moon...
The painting is about the bright future. Like in the work by Alexander Grin, the heroine lives in a cage of routine, in a cage of walls...
In her material world the only visible part of the bright world, waiting for her behind the high walls, are the clouds. This is a deep personal impression, which can be remembered by any of us, when we wanted to escape from the poor and not quite joyful childhood, when we climbed to our goals, seeing it at the horizon and struggling to reach it...Seizing
every chance... In my childhood and youth I had a totally abstract dream, just like Assol, to go beyond the horizon...
The red and black world of the painting also stems from my childhood, when I helped my father to develop photographs.
The red filter in black and white photographs is a radical tool, that turns the visible reality into a mirror-world, where everything changes its meaning...
The subject is a parable about self-sacrifice. By killing the Dragon, George becomes a Dragon himself, dissolves in it. Stylistically this painting was intended as icon painting.
Here it is implemented 'mechanically', the iconic landscape continues in a classical way
and together they form the thin fabric, dividing the world from the war.
Every person has an event, a single or several, in their childhood or youth, that totally changes their perception of the world. It becomes a turning point in their life, making a foundation for something important and valuable for the future living.
For me, nothing is more beautiful and incomprehensible than the sky. If there is a sky in my picture – it is the tone of the picture. Its sound defines the essence.
A space with a single child - humanity in the universe. The child's defenselessness before the world is the defenselessness of humanity in the universe... And the cockroach... in 2020, it turned into a virus that humanity reached out to…