Alexander Galaburda "Miracle in feathers" Automatic translate

Author about the exhibition

The works presented at the exhibition are united by one common feeling, or rather, a presentiment of a miracle. This is what we take with us from childhood.

… My dad, in Ukraine, in a large food production, had his own workshop: long work tables on which knives, scraps of paper lay, brushes were scattered. I breathed in the smell of paints, saw all these objects unusual for a child, unexpected heaps of rectangles, and all this became for me a mystery filled with endless joy.

It was the same in winter, in chilly Petersburg - when I could not finish my work. I remember that I called it somehow funny - "Rubber Infinity", and there was an epiphany that as if the canvas was breathing from the inside, and I saw a piece of Isaac from the window of a communal apartment and listened with bated breath, like Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy"…

On my mother’s side, my family is Finnish-Ugric. I spent and still spend a lot of time in the taiga forest. The secrecy, the coldness of the beauty of the North, this shimmering cosmic light conceals a passion, a thirst for life, not beating out, but hidden from within.

I think that everyone needs this childish presentiment of a miracle, and with my exhibition I would like to remind of this presentiment.

Alexander Vladimirovich Galaburda was born in 1986 in Odessa into a family of artists. He spent his childhood in a village in the Pechora region of the Komi Republic. Educated at St. Petersburg State University.

In difficult years he worked at the Haymarket. He was an assistant to the master-layout designer and carried out the artistic painting of the walls.

In St. Petersburg, he was formed as an artist, although he does not have an academic art education. In different periods of creativity, he was strongly influenced by the avant-garde of the early XX century (Filonov, Kandinsky, Picasso), neo-expressionism (Basquiat), as well as symbolism (Roerich).

In painting, he uses the original genre of figurative abstraction, in which primitivism is combined with a powerful ethnic principle. In the language of primitive narration, he creates fragmented images, referring to ancient cosmological plots, trying to intuitively overcome the disunity of the world in his works.

Participant of the All-Russian Biennial Art Collaboration. Synthesis of Arts "(2019). The first exhibition, titled "BIAS (displacement)", was held in the art space Chashcha in Syktyvkar (2020). Works are presented in private collections in St. Petersburg and Syktyvkar.