Nikita Alexeev
Impressions

This new catalog of Nikita Alexeev’s works features his latest series Impressions, which was exhibited at GMG gallery in fall 2010.
 

The cycle of works is divided into three parts: about art (Impressions of Colour), about everyday life (Impressions of Places and Events), and about people (Impressions of Impressions). While the material for the first two parts originated with the artist, for Impressions of Impressions Alexeev interviewed his acquaintances who are important and interesting to him, and collected written testimonies of their opinions about his art. 

Also included in the Impressions are the album Places I have never been and likely will never go, and a book-suitcase Aachen-Yakhroma.
 

The catalog contains an essay by Eugenia Kikodze Nikita Alexeev: Impressions & Expressions and an interview with the artist.
 

Excerpt from the essay by Eugenia Kikodze: 

The intrigue of Impressions develops immediately, beginning with the project’s title, insofar as it evokes associations with the world-renowned artistic movement that arose in France in the late nineteenth century. The viewer who arrives at an exhibition with this title thus expects to encounter, if not pointillism, then at very least figurative easel paintings; instead, he sees endless rows of geometric compositions. Fine, geometric abstraction, he thinks, switching himself into another perceptual mode. But here again his cultural expectations are disastrously disappointed, for these abstract geometric paintings turn out to be illustrations of certain verbal impressions that are exhibited on equal terms with the paintings and even mounted in square frames of the same size.

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2011

92 pages, 64 color illustrations

Published by Knigi WAM Publishing Group in association with GMG Gallery

ISBN 978-5-91432-033-8