OLEXANDR NEKRASHEVICH / Personal exhibition "Labyrinth"
27.03.2008 — 24.04.2008
Kyiv, the 27th of March 2008, 18.00 - "Collection" presents a fresh portion of art of well-known Byelorussian artist Olexandr Nekrashevich.
20 new works are a military mix with aroma of Japanese cherry tree in bloom. On one work - potatoes are forming a rank, which a knife and Colorado bugs are waiting for. Samurai's hand is embracing the sharpened spears on the other picture... Who will win in this fight? On the monumental canvas 2?3 m the audience will meet a huge plane where the prints of the real finger of the artist imitate the numerous very popular nowadays pixels and show the location of a man in the world created by him...Besides, the theme of aviation and techno-esthetics plays the main role in the exposition, where the author is so charmed by the beauty of the details of planes that turns them into gothic cathedrals.
That's what Nekrashevich is telling about his project: "The exhibition that was organized last year in Kyiv I built upon the confrontation of two elements. This year there is one main element - plane. For me a plane - half mounted, rusty, populated by different personages - is a precise metaphor of the modern life. I understood that a plane was an equivalent of every theme: from unicorn and dragon to labyrinth and Doomsday... "
Exposed tangled inside of a plane in this cycle of works fill the whole space of the pictures, creating a rhythmic visual story-route. Getting from the first sight "inside" of the mechanism, a strange plane, that flies somewhere, we fly there together with it, we - insects that were lost in its labyrinths. Maybe the tangle and the dull sounds of hammered circumstances and mental constructions that are often called "planes" are in reality unable for flights imitation?
It is interesting that Nekrashevich, who was a huge admirer of a plane as a display of a metaphor for his whole life, used a plane as a transport facility only last year, being much older than 30!
A catalogue was published to the opening of the exhibition; the exhibition will last to the 23rd of April.
In the program of opening - Irish whiskey to the music of DJ Derbastlera.
The gallery "Collection" is opened every day, except Monday, from 11.00 to 19.00.
