Exhibition of artist Alexander Novikov "65 painting" Automatic translate

Kazan artist Alexander Novikov is an interesting and multifaceted personality, notable for his special volume of internal sounding, deep erudition, accurate and individual artistic understanding of the most diverse aspects of life. At the same time, communication with him is always constructive, respectful, full-fledged, without a shadow of edification, although his rich and successful teaching experience has been counted by not a single decade in a variety of special art educational institutions of Kazan. The artist’s place in the Russian space, in the fine art of his native city, is worthy and self-sufficient.

A master analyst, he lives quietly, leisurely, works seriously and thoroughly, with detached creative thrill, harmoniously and consciously, with joy, impatient fuss. And this is the position of the artist, his natural stability in the current chaotic computerized existence, overwhelming us with information and opportunities. Sustainability, but not confrontation. He carefully studies this world, accepts it in all realities, and translates its complex state in creativity.

Immersed in the essence of the object selected and studied by him, whether it be still lifes from simple wildflowers or compositions from ordinary ones, but with a history of objects lovingly, thoughtfully composed in the space of the workshop or interior of his native home, a traditional contemporary portrait or a symbolic symbolic image of a lonely tree-road, the viewer always feels the artist’s natural delicate taste, the thoroughness of his approach to color, to composition, the prevailing, truly Renaissance sense of proportion. This is a taste for life itself, an understanding of the value of each day, moment, a special world outlook of completely ordinary, at first glance, things. In this sense, the craftsman’s applied works of wood are surprising, where the shape of the object (fish, nuts, fruits, seeds) is understood through the virtuoso processed texture of the material, the flow of the smooth volume line, and the internal structure. This understanding is so whole and concise that a special, almost meditative, figurative plastic perception arises.

The artist does not need to prove his consistency and uniqueness, his individual language and invariably seriously conscious artistic image are always fascinatingly readable and recognizable in their philosophical thoroughness, despite such a wide range of his style aspirations: from traditional realistic to avant-garde solutions. The degree of interest, the state of the search in the work of a venerable artist is high and organic, absolutely open to new finds, the most accurate getting into the essence of the imagery of the modern world. In this, his artistic view is always young, fresh, energetic, the creative path, both in the past and in the present, and in the future to come, is unique, delightful, and diverse.