Exhibition of Alexander Katsalap "My territory and metropolis". Painting, sculpture Automatic translate

Alexander belongs to the type of artists who are focused on their own searches, outside of the desire to be seen “in plain sight” typical of recent decades. This does not mean that he is not interested in new trends, often communicates with colleagues, attends exhibitions of modern and traditional old art, participates in discussions and screenings.

However, this does not superficially affect his work. A mature artist both by age and by nature, he “passes” everything through his own ideas about what is important, what is momentary, transitory, and in this sense he is independent and not subject to alien influences. Being on friendly terms with one of the most prominent and oldest nonconformists, V.N.Nemukhin, Alexander listened to his advice, but took it critically. Working in different "manners", always trying on the criterion of "made-up" for them, he is equally distant, both from a complete enthusiasm for purely pictorial and plastic techniques, which fills our exhibition practice with all the already fed up "virtuosity" of abstraction, and from "literary zany" plot or conceptual sense. He is truthful, often straightforward in upholding his right, "his territory", his attitude: the material world,durable, sometimes with mystical reminiscences of symbols and hints, but its own, fenced off from the bustle and tinsel of everyday life. And the signs of this strength - stones, buildings, fences, eternal animals, signs - sometimes reveal their ambiguity outside the intentions put into them by the author.