Grotesque (project AV Malik) 2011

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In the halls of the Italian Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa today presented to the public the creative project GROTESQUE Alexei Malik. The artist has repeatedly exhibited in museums of Ukraine, but in our museum, he first exhibited in a solo project. At the exhibition the presence of 50 paintings, PhD, a common stylistic feature. Peculiar handwriting of the artist at close its penetration into the essence of things is characteristic of "grotesque" obrazotvorchestva.
Grotesque (Fr. grotesque, literally - a bizarre, comical, Italian. Grottesco - a quaint, Italian. Grotta - a grotto, a cave [1]) - a kind of artistic imagery, comic or tragicomic synthesis and sharpen life relationships through the bizarre and contrasting combination of real and fantastic , likelihood and caricature, hyperbole and alogism
Grotesque inherent desire for a holistic expression of fundamental contradictions of life, which determines the combination of sharp polarities therein. The very form of grotesque poses suggestive of content: consecrates the liberty of fiction, displays a "contradictory unity" heterogeneous, destroys the common prejudices ....
Artist, he says, has always attracted by the opportunity to create their art through artistic expression strain of his images. Central to his art has always been the relationship between people ...

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LIGHT SPIRIT GROTESQUE
Or an artist who knows how to depict ESSENCE.
Notes on the "Odessa artist Alexei Malik.
Already at the first entry to the exhibition experience, it is difficult effable, the state of spiritual hospitality emotional elation of radiant light that is generously poured out from the artist's works, so they are transparent and pure, organic and confidently frank. Intuitively, you realize that writing well can an artist who loves this blessed, God-given world. You are interested. And if you leave on the eve of the exhibition bias and bustle of idle thoughts, you will be a wonderful meeting with the beautiful.
The exposition is located in three rooms. Works are written with oil. They are full of colorful, expressive and texture in their artistic expression. Strokes are strong, originality, you mark them pasty individuality and perfect elegance. Composite decision rests with the great space of the canvas. Some kind of sixth sense, you understand that the artist - king size, so nice and easy to live songs on canvas paintings. Colorful paintings are attractive and you will happily enjoy the color embodiment. Nevertheless, a painful feeling of something unusual does not leave you, and peered and peered into the beautiful text. It's easy to do, because they themselves are deprived of any deliberate and accentuation. The style and manner of writing to you and our perception indicate the absence of congestion fabrications zryashnogo find a plot or vanity of expression. You understand that revealed something much more than a grotesque perversion of representational forms. You intuitively feel the mystery of artistic, picturesque illogic. Coming something new and this is obvious. And you are looking for the key, looking for clues in the lines and colors, characters and pictures. You are looking for a picture - the door that would let you into the picturesque world of the artist. You all certainly Look for them at all his painting and in his time, but not in a hurry. Beautiful does not tolerate hassles.

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Your journey continues. Magic power of colorful picture fascinates the internal dynamics of images, the perceived depth of which excites and stirs the imagination. With all my heart You feel their monumental integrity and sacredness. Picturesque senses live, breathe, flow from picture to picture, revealing the hidden, invisible at first structure. The world of wonderful new life throws open its doors to you. Your imagination grasps the logic of the imagination of the artist. And the weird, the impossible becomes possible and the only real. Do not confuse the unknown. You know him, but learn it as unknown. Bliss and freedom of knowledge. You pays tribute to the name of the painting. It is the desired key.
The first painting, "Three chairs and sun." At first glance, a simple uncomplicated pattern of smooth and rounded lines. However noble and austere elegance of color and compositional inspiration. Intuitively, unconsciously, but you can see firsthand the correlation of such a disproportionate nor magnitude, nor the least, lost their usual flesh and materiality of things and relations. Gradually, you realize the irrelevance of poverty and unambiguous understanding of the center and periphery, foreign and domestic, large and small. Lightning pierces the idea of absolute value a simple arithmetic rule: "From the relocation of the sum does not change." And a sharp pain respond unlearned lesson of history - the cause of destruction (the counter-revolution) social uprisings for social justice rooted in the hope of change for the better by changing places. (The defeat of the Soviet regime perhaps the best proof). But the bright beauty and aesthetic truth of the returns to the light. And you comprehend the truth of perfection - perfection does not know the levels and contrast, but because it does not matter, the chair you or the sun. If you're perfect, you're equal to any other perfection. Genius Skovoroda as he is right in proclaiming the principle of unequal equality principle of the organization alive.
And this is only a small fraction of open canvas "Three chairs and a sun." Be bold and ye shall find much more.
"The Blessed One World" - the work is left to move to the second room. Fire lit the red light does not match his eyes. Would need a light, your eyes, seeing a blessed peace! Lick men firmly inscribed in the monumental canvas, a strong masculine hand strengthens the perception of vertical, extending to infinity blessed peace pictorial space of the canvas. You begin to understand its semantics, an ideal, so far only conceivable aspect of reality, becomes flesh and visibility. This blessed, blessed peace. Perhaps, the heart will tell you that this is a self-portrait of humanity in its true phenomenon. And do not be in error. Since the prototype was Santa.
How is this possible and if I know that there is a painting?!
Soft light lyrical, fairy-tale fantasy world of dreams and day dreams, the gentle murmur of sunlight - languor. You touches it - is the work of "Summer Residents".
Work "towards each other" - the world of water. Children's ship and ocean liner, childhood and adulthood, rain puddle in the yard and the bay of the ocean-sea, two connected clothesline at home. They are not simply commensurate in all its otherness, they walk, swim, rustle in the wind - one word - try to meet each other. What a nice lesson in human disunity!
"The girl and horse" and "A Boy and his horse" - these works are deliberately separated in the space density of our perception is not a simple world of childhood. What did not we come up with adults to just barely, a little closer to understanding the child. Alas, in fact - it turns out as usual - came up with the world only justifies our behavior, not a jot us closer to the truth - the children alone in the world of men. Otherwise you do not explain the appearance of being homeless and stable, such a "Sandpit Generals". Look at the eyes of a white horse, whose mane combing boy, it seems they know something about your childhood. A horse for a girl equally alive. Children do not know the division of the world to live and not live. The principle of ahimsa them organic. Feeling of revulsion or disgust them is not natural. They do not need to evaluate the world. Children take the world as it is. They change themselves. .... And a lot will tell you the connection of these child-moving lines forming composition of the paintings.
"Man and Money" - a picturesque stele human folly and greed. Gaping empty apple top, leading into the abyss. And could there be another road leading to mammon?! But the chance while you still have not dried up yet bowl atoning blood, yet offer prayers. Amazing color Din, a surprisingly slim figure, confidentially uncovered a Joint prayer of two souls (the work "Prayer") evoke unexpected ideas about the power of prayer, as a fertile source that feeds the tree of life.
Your thoughts echoed Black Cockatoos "(the so-called work) Artist Cockatoo perched on the top of the tree. The bird is incredibly big. But look how the air - easy to spread out their fingers bird, it sits on a tree. It is weightless, this proud, giggling bird. At the foot, beak to beak, two little tiny bird on the sacrifice (?) Dish. In the tree fruit of obedience (Y Brianchaninov there is such a nice parable about the fact that, if humble, responsible and completely perform the assigned work, even if it is meaningless, such as: daily watering of the tree, dried and planted in the stony ground - the result is bound to be good - Once the tree blossoms).
You have not yet found the answer to the question, what is Art? Your journey continues. The magical power of composite solutions you fascinating. Those deprived of their usual materiality of a material, the images tightly penetrate into consciousness. You can feel them with all their senses. In their reality is difficult to doubt. Their mysterious nature initiates an amazing mind games. Eyes receive sight, and you hear a solemn melody, played paint utvoryaya wonderful image of being perfect in all the splendor of a variety of genres. You are viewing the scenic poem of Art, which opened the "Harlequin". A mighty wave of your consciousness joins other text and eyes die down before the image of the unity of two souls - "I and Thou." You remember, can not help but remember the Gospel words: "man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife and they shall be one flesh alone, but because they are no longer two but one flesh." Powerful sound design is deeply conscious form sends your perception of the temple murals. Do you accept this conditional language grotesque, intuitively sensing his strong, sensual art loading. You continue to learn this alphabet characters, willingly followed him into the world of the new pictorial reality. Fascinated, you go into the arms of the triumph of the red ("In the red room") and picked up his faint excitement at the scenic manifest trust ("Trust relationship"). How sweet chastity, barely touching, He protects, saves her absolute trust. Drawing, paint - even they are afraid to violate this wonderful balance.
Your receptive consciousness has long captivated the artist's manner of writing, a way of applying paint to a deep rich mixtures, unusual linear generalizations, sometimes wondrous inner smile, which sparkled most beautiful lyrics ("Winner", "Sea Wolf", "Surprised by Stepan," "Nudists "). Are you fascinated and easy for you to breathe, you are filled with strength and inspiration. The exhibition is united in its creative execution - each painting is valuable in itself, but together they create a beautiful image of a unified and holistic perception of the real world free and blessed.
This, he, the master of the grotesque, the artist - a metaphysician, a man whose heart is full of love for the Blessed this world - Alex Malik.

Maria Movchan, Fellow of the museum.