Alexey Golovin
Alexey Golovin is a contemporary Russian artist, lives and works in St. Petersburg (Russia). Creates complex works in the author's technique using screwed self-tapping screws. Art is procedural in nature, where the action itself reveals and symbolically substantiates the ideas and meanings that Alexey works with. The theme of the internal psychological state of a person and society becomes the main leitmotif of creativity. The main thesis is that the creative harmony of the world order is hidden in soft power. Soft power as the inner core of a person. Soft power as the ability to see and subtly feel the surrounding reality with all the shadow aspects.
To accept the world not through struggle, but through empathy, not running away, but peering intently at everything that happens. The author develops two main areas of creative practice, being both a media artist creating bright and often ironic works, and an institutional author working with the acute social context of the current message. Life always has the other side of the coin, and the main thing is the reaction of a person and the ability to take his path without illusions, but with fortitude. Screwing screws - postulating your presence in fixing the moment and your emotions in it. The “now” moment can be filled with joy and sorrow, fear and inner freedom, anxiety and inspiration from life. The whole spectrum of emotions lived by a person is what makes us alive. And all emotions deserve to be seen and accepted. Screwing in screws, painstaking and physically difficult work, forms the author's visual aesthetics in the final work. The process itself is also a symbol of dialogue with one's own states and an act of overcoming resistance in the face of life's difficulties that each person faces. The artist subtly feels and systematizes the psychological patterns of the society of our time, revealing the social side of life through a deeply reflective approach that touches on the personal history of the author. The works visualize a safe structural space where strength and will are felt. And each picture becomes a symbol of a dimension where there is a place for courage and freedom, kindness and empathy, and most importantly, permission to be yourself in this difficult world.
Personal exhibitions:
2021
Thrills curated by Marina Gurevich, Museum of Contemporary Art Artmuza, St. Petersburg
2022
"Colored Dreams" Hidden Place, Moscow.
Group exhibitions:
2022
Wow, curated by Ksenia Gorbatyuk, Here on Taganka Gallery, Moscow.
2022-2023
“Gift under the Christmas tree”, curator Ksenia Gorbatyuk, gallery “Here on Taganka”, Moscow.
2022-2023
"Everything will be fine" Marina Gurevich, Museum of Contemporary Art Artmuza, St. Petersburg
To accept the world not through struggle, but through empathy, not running away, but peering intently at everything that happens. The author develops two main areas of creative practice, being both a media artist creating bright and often ironic works, and an institutional author working with the acute social context of the current message. Life always has the other side of the coin, and the main thing is the reaction of a person and the ability to take his path without illusions, but with fortitude. Screwing screws - postulating your presence in fixing the moment and your emotions in it. The “now” moment can be filled with joy and sorrow, fear and inner freedom, anxiety and inspiration from life. The whole spectrum of emotions lived by a person is what makes us alive. And all emotions deserve to be seen and accepted. Screwing in screws, painstaking and physically difficult work, forms the author's visual aesthetics in the final work. The process itself is also a symbol of dialogue with one's own states and an act of overcoming resistance in the face of life's difficulties that each person faces. The artist subtly feels and systematizes the psychological patterns of the society of our time, revealing the social side of life through a deeply reflective approach that touches on the personal history of the author. The works visualize a safe structural space where strength and will are felt. And each picture becomes a symbol of a dimension where there is a place for courage and freedom, kindness and empathy, and most importantly, permission to be yourself in this difficult world.
Personal exhibitions:
2021
Thrills curated by Marina Gurevich, Museum of Contemporary Art Artmuza, St. Petersburg
2022
"Colored Dreams" Hidden Place, Moscow.
Group exhibitions:
2022
Wow, curated by Ksenia Gorbatyuk, Here on Taganka Gallery, Moscow.
2022-2023
“Gift under the Christmas tree”, curator Ksenia Gorbatyuk, gallery “Here on Taganka”, Moscow.
2022-2023
"Everything will be fine" Marina Gurevich, Museum of Contemporary Art Artmuza, St. Petersburg