Alexei Dyakov, the exhibition "PSIdentifikatsiya"

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Alexei Dyakov. "PSIdentifikatsiya." "The Agency. Art Ru". Moscow. str. Radio, 6/4. November 23 - December 23, 2012

November 23 "The Agency. Art Ru »opens on the platform outside Radio new project" PSIdentifikatsiya "- an exhibition of works by the artist and sculptor Alexei Dyakov. The project works by presenting a complex set of aesthetic ideas and practices of different styles and genres, from graphic images, three-dimensional plastic objects, lights, video, sound installations - to dynamically bodily images dance.
   PSIdentifikatsiya - identification of the soul. Identifying the author understood in psychological terms, as an important protective mechanism to ensure that suppress the fear of man, or social community. Identification involves borrowing characteristics frightening object up to identify with him and the complete loss of self-identity. The main question asked by the artist, is that we need to do a man to save his soul from outside interference, their identity from the pressure of a hostile environment, its uniqueness from the influence of others? Attempt to answer this question, and is the project "PSIdentifikatsiya."
   Alexei Dyakov work conveys special psychological impulse that generates a sense of threat, danger, distrust, bordering on painful irony as a reaction to the possibility of complete loss of the person's identity. Expressive elements are divided by the author on the material and symbolic. The main material element of the work is the sand. Its flowability and fluctuation sand symbolizes the fragility and frailty of material existence. On the other side of the sand - is the land, and the land - it's heavy. Sand confronts sky air disaster, freedom, in the sense that the artist's palette equally evil, negative start, alienates man from his personality, true nature.
Symbolic elements of his works are very diverse, covering a variety of cultural contexts. Ancient symbols mask refers to a special world insidious Venetian carnival. The image of the penguin, the only erect locomotive birds, lacking the ability to fly - an image whose loveliness, in likening man gets grim irony mark, and even zloveschesti. All works are to each other in a kind of dialogue, revealing the very emotional core of the problem of identification, the urgent need to overcome the suffocating mask of false identity and rid themselves of the weight of material things and relationships.