Alexey Filippov. "Battle figures"

An exhibition of paintings by Alexei Filippov will be held in the Artmuza Museum of Contemporary Art: in the presented cycle of works, the artist deliberately refuses direct associativity and the primacy of ideas, brings the form to the absolute. The artist has over 100 exhibitions in Russia and abroad, his works are kept in collections of museums around the world (including in the Vatican library).

In the context of a project, the artist is primarily interested in form and color. According to art critic Alexandra Malinova, who has been working with the author for several years, it is the unity of these two elements that constitutes the drama of his works of art. The process of finding the form by the author is also quite dramatic and even "painful": he cuts off details, generalizing the form almost to the sign, exacerbating the tension in the contours and gestures. In a vulnerable pictorial form, an attentive viewer will discover sculpturality, duality: what at first glance seems simple is actually complex, and plastic is infinitely variable.

It is worth noting that during his studies at the Higher School of Industrial Art named after. V. I. Mukhina, Alexey Filippov studied with Kutsenko Lyudmila Viktorovna - it was she who had a strong influence on his artistic worldview. His painting reveals the mystery of an artistic act, when a substance is transformed into an image, magical energy, which continues, already autonomously from the artist himself, to influence the viewer.

Alexey Filippov is a St. Petersburg artist, a member of the Union of Artists since 1996, works in painting and graphics. Laureate of the Russian competition for the best graphic work dedicated to the work of V. Nabokov, is a participant in more than 100 exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The main personal exhibitions were held in the galleries of Marina Gisich, DiDi, Borey, and the Museum of Nonconformist Art. His works are in the collections of the Vatican Library (Italy), the Moni Lazariston Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece), the V. Nabokov Museum, the Museum of Nonconformist Art, the Kerch Art Gallery, as well as in private Russian and foreign collections.