Participation in ART ON PAPAER 2024 NEY YORK
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TRACES ON THE EARTH - the solo exhibition in MORA Museum of International Art - August 9th - August 12th, 2024
My previous exhibition, dedicated to refugees and immigration, was called “Looking at the Sky.” This is a very sad topic, related to the forced separation of a person and their children from their home and established life.
The next stage of exploring this topic makes me lower my eyes to the ground. I see the scars and marks of suffering and tears left by people when they left their homes. The earth keeps their traces; they do not disappear, they only layer upon each other, forming cultural strata.
But immigration was not the end of the world or the end of life, which cannot be said about the new wars where there were none just two years ago. There is an internal and external war, the killing of adults and children; anger fueled by lies is growing; a mass of people, under the influence of, let’s say, dark forces, justifies terrorism, demands the death of an entire people, demands that this people stop fighting for their existence; rivers of blood and tears are flowing. Phenomena like the Holocaust and genocide are looming on the horizon again. I fear that now anti-Semitism has greatly expanded its geography, and we cannot yet assess the consequences of its mutation.
The Tower of Babel is destroyed again, and people stop understanding each other. Such conditions create a favorable environment for the manifestation of the worst qualities of a person. In such a world, only individuals with certain types of mentality – dictator and slave – can survive. They kill our freedom, and it becomes harder for us to breathe, and we need a lot of strength to resist and fight.
In this project, I made blue the symbol of freedom. Here, BLUE is not a color in the artist’s palette, but a symbol of freedom and democracy. For example, the blue top of the Ukrainian flag, the Blue Star of Israel, the blue color of the Democrats in America – all of this is now in great danger. If we do not fight for blue, the life and freedom of many people will be in danger, as it happened in Russia.
Russia has lost its Blue. Only red blood remains, which it sheds inside and outside the country. Russia has now turned to the brown color – the color of fascism.
I want people viewing the exhibition to sharply realize that the world is changing rapidly. That freedom, security, and happiness will not come by themselves.
This is my alarm for democracy.
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After an exhibition at the MORA Museum in New Jersey, two of my works ended up at the PERSEUS GALLERY in Soho in New York.
November 2023
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L O O K I N T O T H E S K Y - the exhibition in MORA Museum of International Art - November 16th - November 24th, 2024
The main idea of my exhibition is to reflect on the global processes that are currently taking place in the world.
I’m talking about human migrations that are caused by wars… I believe if we compare them to the natural phenomena - the closes thing would be a tectonic shift. Fundamental transformation and profound reordering…
The topic of fugitives and refugees has been especially close to my heart since 2016, when I realized that it’s time for me and my family to leave Russia.
Since that time all my works are one way or another related to this topic. Russian-Ukrainian war gave me additional impetus for further exploration in this direction.
I explore the stages the person goes through while reconciling with this new status - from pain and loss, feeling totally alien and unwanted in a new place, to nostalgia, homesickness and hope to return, transforming into realization that return isn’t possible… to very slowly accepting this new place and welcoming new opportunities, to first smiles of success.
I see the innate fragility of human nature - both physical and spiritual, emotional - and try to convey it through my art.
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A small exhibition dedicated to REFUGEE DAY in the Refuge Coffee,
June 2023
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The old gods are watching us
2019
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Сontinuation of the REFUGEE project
2018
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The new art work from Moscow summer holidays.
July 2018
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"Grove Street Festival" Gainesville FL April 28, 2018
Sculpture "Something About Love" and "Jump Out of the Shadows."
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"Grove Street Festival" Gainesville FL April 28, 2018
Все проявления личности человека с момента его появления на Земле остались с ним мало изменившись. В Средние Века сформировалось название и визуализация людских страстей и пороков. Это Химеры. Мы не ушли далеко от Средневековья, значит у нас должны быть современные химеры.
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Street Art Theatre
The Street Art Theater consists of small plays, or stories, told through silhouettes in the sky. The stage of this theater can be the roofs and/or walls. The themes of these stories are ideas inspired by the artist’s experiences and imagination.
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Дима Алексеев -
НАШИ В КОCMОСЕ ("OURS IN THE COSMOS")
Organized by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art / организовано Mосковским Mузеем Cовременного Искусства
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"Ours in the Cosmos" meaning – our own [people] in space – is not only proudly acknowledging the presence of Russians in this new territory but also a tribute to the bravery of human kind as a whole – which knows no bounds – and the ingenuity of human thought which leaps over the horizon of what is previously impossible. I see man as living cosmic matter. It is an inseparable part of us. The blackness of space is a mere shadow, our projection, in a metaphysical sense. Sailing out into deep space is only part of a bigger experiment set by man whose larger goal is to understand his role and place in the universe.
Советский Союз всегда славился своими достижениями в космосе. Формально моя работа посвящена этому периоду нашей истории, но я вижу совсем другую подоплеку движения людей в безвоздушное пространство.
«Наши в космосе» - это нашe присутствие не только в другом пространстве, это посвящение человеческой смелости, не знающий границ, человеческой мысли, перескакивающеи за горизонт возможного. Я рассматриваю человека как часть живой космической материи. Oна приходит из космоса и уходит в него.
Человеческие тени, пробитыe созвездиями - это и есть Наше Небо. Oнo неотделимo от нас. Oнo и мы одно целое, часть одной и той же материи. Чернoтa космоса - всего лишь наша тень или наша проекция в метафизическом смысле. Bыход в открытый космос - это всего лишь часть эксперимента, поставленного человеком, основная цель которого осознание своего места и своей роли во Вселенной.
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"На последнем этапе существования человек отравляет все вокруг себя"
("At the last stage of existence a person poisons everything around him")
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"Be Still"
January 10, 2017
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Я рассматриваю город как киноплощадку, или павильон для съемок , в котором все без исключения участники. Собственно жизнь города, это огромный киносценарий, полный сюжетов, а дома, улицы, мосты, машины привезены со склада. Все это где-то хранилось, туда и вернется, или, как декорации, разберут. Эта мысль подтвердилась, когда на одном из мостов я увидел инвентарный номер. Я подумал, что все - иллюзия настоящего - дома, люди и их истории. Каждый играет отведенную ему роль. Кто-то скользит по ней, кто-то в нее погружается. Твоя воля только сыграть в предложенное. Глубина правдивости зависит от тебя. Если игра не убедительна, тебя вычеркивают раз и навсегда. Это реалити-шоу огромного масштаба. В нем рождаются и умирают по- настоящему. Там настоящие трагедии, убийства и самоубийства. Как в кино. Роли переписываются, меняются, и в этом есть элемент свободы.
Мы как художники перелистываем или прокручиваем сюжеты, пока не наткнемся на что-то, интересующее нас . В этом кино, в котором мы все участники, у нас, наверное, роль птиц. Мы все видим, но не участвуем. Мы видим порядок вещей в этом кино, пересекая в нашем полете бесконечное количество людских историй. Один вопрос остается всегда. Как выйти из киносценария? Где заветная надпись exit, и что за ней - очередной виток мизансцен, или что-то настоящее?
Люди рождаются внутри определенной сцены. Они уже не свободны. Они еще даже не родились, а уже обязаны участвовать в кино. Их выхватывают из животов матерей и воспитывают как будущих актеров для сюжетов, в которых им придется играть. У них нет выбора, как и у нас. Мы видим, как из космоса несутся зародыши, чтобы удариться в человека и прорасти в нем. Это не зародыши будущего несутся к нам, пробивая ноосферу - это материал для поворота сюжета, для продолжения кино. Космос тоже участник киносценария. В зрителях не должен угаснуть интерес.
Дима Алексеев
"Look Into the Sky" Book Arts
Feb 2017
A book being put together featuring framed photos of several projects.
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"Sky Maintenance"
March 28, 2017
Dima Alekseyev presents a project for the Don White Memorial Park in the city of Roswell near Atlanta GA. The project was created with the support of Lawrence Catchpole and Rochelle Mucha - founder of the Roswell Arts Fund.
http://www.roswellartsfund.org/
The work was installed on the bridge GA-400 across the Chattahoochee River.
This project is a continuation of the main theme in Dima's exhibition titled "Look into the Sky," held in June last year at the Kremlin Arsenal museum of modern art in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
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"The Heavens had protected us for a long time - took our complaints, prayers, requests, gratitude and curses alike but they are in disrepair. Holes and voids have started to appear.
Now it's our turn to take care of the sky and restore its integrity and beauty."
Exploration and "humanization" of urban
Curator: Olga Tatosian (Nizhny Novgorod)
Photographer: Victor Chernyshev (Moscow)
Artists: Dmitry Alekseev (Moscow)
"I Look into the Sky"12 2016, the Arsenal's courtyard
This is a public art project of an artist Dmitry Alekseev and photographer Victor Chernyshev.
The artist will place two panel paintings and photographs from the "I Look into the Sky" series on the Arsenal's facade and in the courtyard, illustrating how his objects fit into the city space.
During the past years Dmitry Alekseev has focused his attention on urban space which he tries to make more "human" by introducing public art (public art - art in the city environment designed to be exhibited to the unprepared public and implying communication and interaction with the city space). Alekseev regards the gaps between arches of a bridge or a viaduct as space for artistic statements.
The main conceptual and artistic image in the artist's musings about reclamation of a new, unfamiliar land by a man, is the sky, which presents a fitting background for the installation: "A man, no matter to which culture he belongs, always turns to the sky. It is what he looks at when he rejoices or despairs, sends curses or gratitude. And so do I: I look into the sky." - Dmitry Alekseev.
After several projects under the bridges of the Moscow river, results of which were exhibited at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture, the artists suggested to utilize space under the Nizhny Novgorod bridges over ravines at the Fedor Ovsky embankment.
"Time"
February 10, 2017
"The concept of this work is the movement of time. Modern culture constantly refers to the culture of ancient Greece but time moves forward and moves us further and further away. All of us, just as the ancients, would like stop the flow of time, but the river of time cannot be stopped."
Displayed at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta, GA.
"The Games: Ancient Olympia to Atlanta to Rio"
November 4, 2016
Displayed at the Millennium Gate Museum
in Atlanta GA.
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Six Hundreds Art Festival
June 1, 2016
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A Different Atmosphere Art Festival
July 1, 2016
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Dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky
August 11 2016
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