New order. Exhibition of Alexei Chizhov. 16+ Automatic translate

The Erarta Museum opens an exhibition of contemporary paintings by St. Petersburg artist Alexei Chizhov, which offers a look at the world order through the prism of images of modern military men.

The work of Alexei Chizhov, like any practicing painter, is inextricably linked with tradition. Using canonical samples of Soviet painting in his artistic universe, the author engages in a conscious dialogue with the past.

His series “The New Order” is extremely serious, since it is a question of war. Aleksey Chizhov is not shy about manifesting a certain civic position with his works, which makes us recall the naive sincerity of romantic art. He uses archaic artistic language, abuses allegories and allegories in the spirit of Soviet science fiction. Chizhov’s paintings are a kind of epic of a hybrid war. An artist who set out to show the "trench truth" of an information war would probably portray the icy darkness of a giant server room patrolled by a lone IT specialist wearing a Star Wars logo t-shirt. Chizhov offers us something like a military-historical genre of the 21st century: “In the New Order series, I, following the traditional anti-utopian pathos, tried to present a general metaphor for modern geopolitics.”

About the artist:

Alexey Chizhov is an artist with a classical education. Born in Leningrad in 1980, he became interested in painting at a junior school and went through all the pedagogical institutions from the painting club to the conservative Academy of Arts. Anatomical studies, the study of the compositional laws of easel paintings became a support for the artist, who was simultaneously interested in contemporary art practices.

The artist’s works are in private collections in Russia, England, the USA and other countries.

The New Order exhibition will be held on the 3rd floor of the Museum’s Exhibition Wing from May 23 to July 9, 2018.