Andrew Belle

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I want to show one more in my opinion interesting artist from St. Petersburg --
Andrew Belle.

 Andrew Belle lives in a ragged rhythm: anchorite then disappears for months at his country house - the studio, then leads a secular life - hangs in numerous get-togethers and he arranges them in their own islands, and it will fly away and with your friends - A. Makarevich, A. Rosenbaum and others - in the most exotic countries, diving. But not only those defined by the rhythm of his life. As an artist, Bella traveling in time. Actually, doing the same diving - sailing on a timeline, making his way among the weeds, raking his hands sand drifts, looking for something different, unique, and only he needs. Actually, the subject of navigation - a kind of optics, the nature of vision, watching the situation. I think Bella managed to implement this setting plastic: in his work relationship with the subject does not always line up directly. There is always a sense of "through", the presence of a certain optical plan, refracting the image and does not allow to enter with him into direct contact. This happens with a female character Bella - a multi-year series, in fact, amounted to his name. Woman Belle "- this, of course, femmefatale, without reference to findesiècle can not get along. However, the direct stylization, however. The presence of optical lens provides a temporary break in a special form. Writes A. Etkind, "the symbolism of making the materials of the deep levels and altered states of consciousness, as it had previously remained outside of culture: snovidnye, meditative, narcotic, hypnotic, protologicheskie. I think Bella has found an adequate form of not only these states of consciousness, how our ideas about them. Precisely, one suggestion of mystery, danger and temptation, which in our pragmatic age is difficult to resist.


 Alexander Borovsky,

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State Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg