ALEXANDER MIKHALEV
Artistic career
The main style is abstractionism. I experiment in such directions as abstract expressionism. The creative goal is to develop the ability to unconsciously convey an image in an expressive way. He was born on Sakhalin Island in 1982, Russia. In 2005, he graduated from the Maikop Institute of Technology. Military service in 2006. 2008 – moving to Moscow. 2008 – 2014 Internet marketer. 2014 – 2018 Internet entrepreneur. From 2018 to the present, I devote all my time to creative work, studying modern styles in painting, as well as studying the art market. Since 2018, after a series of events and insights, I decide to start an artist’s career. After that, active artistic work begins, the first sales and the search for oneself. During 2019-2020, I am painting, painting and starting cooperation with designers and gallery owners. In 2021, I will open my first solo exhibition in the Moscow region. In 2022, I visit Mexico, where I study the local art market, and after returning to Russia, I discover a lot for myself… In 2023, I am continuing my creative work in my studio in the Moscow region, and I am looking for ways to develop myself as an artist. My works are in private collections in the USA, Mexico and Russia.
Exhibition activities:
2021.01. – 2021.05 – K35 space Gallery.
2021.02.-2021.03 – Shakhovskaya Museum of Local History. Personal exhibition-debut “Loop of time”.
2021.04.10 – Lotoshinsky Local History Museum. Personal exhibition “Loop of Time”
2022.05 Collective exhibition in the Central House of Artists of the NEW TRETYAKOV Gallery “ART TODAY
2022″2022.08 – Collective exhibition Vernissage in Shakhovskaya.
2023.01 – Solo exhibition in Mexico. Playa del Carmen.
I paint pictures that make people feel emotions, and quite positive ones. Without words or plots.
I am not limited by the foundation of the theory.
I always ignore the rules and test them in practice.
I value freedom and personal opinion.
What is creativity for me?
There is a lot of selfishness in my paintings, I try to portray my own, – the best art is to give people the opportunity to immerse themselves in the object as much as possible. An artistic object gives a person the opportunity to immerse himself in himself, the object sets the rules, the rules form the flight of thought of the imagination, creating images and moods in the subconscious of a person.
Art changes over time, as a person changes, his consciousness and subconscious mind change, we are constantly moving towards futurism. Futurism comes every day, but we don’t notice it, someone is living in the past, someone is living in the future, someone is trying to live in the present.
Therefore, modern art will always be only in the present. But it takes some time to think about it… to see, analyze, evaluate. Therefore, the recognition of art will always be delayed.
I create paintings in such styles as abstractionism, surrealism, geometricism. All these styles can sometimes be intertwined in one work. But the main thing in my job is to convey the mood and generate a stream of information in your head.
A good abstract painting will always make you “think”, and then you will be able to get answers to your questions. I believe that abstract and surreal paintings attract the attention of modern people because they give the viewer the opportunity to “think”, the plot does not distract, his task is to immerse him in a state in which the observer can engage in introspection, go into mindfulness mode.
Painting, like music, affects the subconscious almost instantly..
The interior loves abstract paintings
Of course, I did not ignore the theme of interior design. This is currently an urgent issue. More and more people want to see something unusual, atmospheric, inspiring in their living space. Live, real canvases are the best choice. Choosing the plot of the painting, of course, I rely on the trends of modern interior style, guess the tastes of people, I see you. But there are many of you, and in the end I remain true to my taste. After all, I’m either a positive artist or a depressive. A positive person cannot become depressed, and vice versa. Fortunately for many, and for myself, I am a positive artist)
Good big spaces like big canvases. Paintings in the interior always make an accent in it. That’s what they exist for.
Philosophy
My philosophy is an abstract game of imagination, contrasting colors, transitions of tones, hints of depth and some scenarios of the plot that spontaneously arose and I give it a continuation. Everything I do, I do straight from the subconscious, I have to prepare for the painting for several days, maybe weeks, cool paintings cannot be painted to order, abstract art is almost impossible to repeat. Now, when we live in a time of complete immersion in information flows, the availability of graphic images, the development of neural networks and the complete cybernetization and digitalization of the population, the individuality of human consciousness is the main advantage of conscious people. I just do what I get great pleasure from and this path inspires me.
