The new project Nikita Alexeev in "Gridchinholle" develops and condenses the effect of the special atmosphere, being born around the works on paper: texts, graphics, series, installations, which are divided here twenty separate zones - "cha

Gallery "Gridchinholl" December 18, 2011 - March 4, 2012
Moscow region, Krasnogorsk district, with . Dmitrovskoe Street. Central, 23

new project develops Nikita Alexeev and condenses the effect of the special atmosphere, being born around the works on paper: texts, graphics, series, installations, which are divided here twenty separate zones - "chapels." The artist attributes the origin of the light and unobtrusive aesthetic architectural style "Gridchinholla", which read constructivist love the simple achromatic materials, large windows and purist interior. In continuation of the architectural style of the exhibition space Alekseev settles along the walls twenty thematic niches, such as "The Chapel of photosynthesis," "Chapel of Red Cross", "Chapel chebureks," "Chapel of unnecessary money" or "Chapel of the winter leaf fall." In contrast to the actual practice of construction and operation of the chapel - a small church built without altar, without a permanent staff of ministers with visiting priests - in the chapels of Nikita Alexeev does not mean any, even the occasional liturgical activity. This chapel museum type that exist in large Catholic cathedrals, working as a museum. All initiation is already designed, gift implemented otzvuchali service, and to share current ministers can only change colors and filling in leaves explications, take away the tourists.

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What is behind the dedications of these hours? Giving the viewer the ultimate right answer to this question (twenty versions of the question), we note only that in this project the author remains true to himself, he continues to lead complex intellectual game with signs, images, associations and affects - the latest, perhaps, to a greater extent than in his other works. "... Signs are the shadows playing on the surface of bodies," wrote Gilles Deleuze in "Critique and Clinic." Nikita Alexeev and it embodies. Each chapel denotes the space of affect, which emphasized the fluidity of the mark, his ambivalence - conditional and at the same time paradoxical liveliness. Everything here has supposedly "metaphysical" status, in fact, is the result of communication, influence, interference, as snow and wind affect the piece of paper, whose tremor is transmitted images of plants.

avid traveler and a collector of travel insights, the artist is now offering a new adventure. Such a work-adventure shows Alexeyev has long been, if we recall his earlier albums and scrolls "Journey Motherland" and "The Adventures of Black Square". Now, before we deployed the space-time suite, which route is built by the artist, by analogy with niches and folds its own memory.

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About the author.

Nikita Alexeev - from one generation of artists, whose names are traditionally celebrate Moscow conceptual school of the 1970s and '80s, although his career is much wider for this phenomenon and also includes APTART (legendary gallery by that name was built, as you know, Alexeyev in his own apartment in the early 1980s) and "new wave" rehabilitated figurative painting.

While Nikita Alexeev - one of the central figures, which kept and keeps the domestic art scene for over thirty years, the symbolic role of "team players" paradoxically connects him with the utmost reluctance of escapism and perform rituals in public star: pose for the press, signing autographs. It is evident that in moments of greatest commercial success (and quality, we note with sadness) related to the "boom" of Russian Art in the late 1980s and 1990s, or the new millennium, Alekseev, or left for long-term residence abroad, if any, declared the work stoppage. so that, when the dust will settle and silt and prosvetleet again, again show up in the heart of the artistic the process.

Nikita Alexeev is known as the painting and performances, and works in a literary genre. The latter is in his work was completely independent and separate components: almost all his projects are accompanied by author's commentary, sometimes in as explications of the exhibition, and sometimes as part of the work. recognizable artist's poetics is precisely this fusion of image and literary description which refers to the phenomenon of literary journals, such as Alexander Pushkin, or travel writing, for example, Carl Linnaeus. One graphic start, free flowing "from words to action" that is, from the letters to the image, contributes to an atmosphere, reflections on the mood and open to free interpretations of the audience.

Eugene Kikodze
art historian, curator of the exhibition

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