Morozov Alexander

Exploring the boundaries between the invisible image and form, text and image, dark areas of memory and consciousness, I create paradoxical personal spaces where I emphasize the areas of social and psychological crash and transformation. I may say I’m interested in the border between the medial and presence, where the meaning is not the same as the signified.

The things that I highlight in the temporal flow of present cannot be displayed by simple visual aids. I’m most interested in poetics of random connections and paradoxical spaces.

Rethinking aspects of interaction between the environment and the time, we see the physical space as the tip of the iceberg, woven of real and fictional dimensions. Mysterious and elusive landscape of the unconscious is only a conditional map, exploring which is a dangerous adventure.

Alexander Morozov

Alexander Morozov always surprises with the breadth of his creative pursuits. He manages to simultaneously paint, create works resembling models and drawings of penitentiary facilities, write texts, model marble plaques, photograph and even record bird flights from the balcony of his workshop — the latter skill recently delighted the jury of a small but proud award, and the author was awarded a special award. It is possible to understand the feelings of connoisseurs of modern art — what, if not the flight of birds, is most accurately associated with artistic freedom and fantasy, with the ease and non-compulsion of art? However, not everything is so simple in the matter of Alexander Morozov's creative freedom. With all the breadth of interests, the artist is very far from impulsiveness and, especially, the immediacy of his actions — in fact, so far that here it would be necessary to mention just the other pole in relation to what is called spontaneity: thoughtfulness, accurate calculation and very attentive to details. The mobility and at the same time lack of fervor in the artist's character makes us think of mercury; in one of his interviews, the guru of Moscow's Young conceptualism (or psychedelic realism) Pavel Pepperstein said that the most valuable property is to be able, being absorbed by any passion, to listen to the noise from outside, to strive, so to speak, to dream with an open window.

Evgeniya Kikodze