Works by Alexsey Tatarskikh (Graphic 3)

Parallel to the exhibition of Marina Krasnitskaya
In one room of the exhibition we show works by:

Alexsey Tatarskikh

Alexsey Tatarskikh was born in 1978 in Votkinsk (Russia) and currently lives in Samara. The artist is involved in design and illustration, especially graphics, painting and digital art. Alexsey Tatarskikh graduated from the art school in Votkinsk and graduated from Izhevsk State Technical University with a degree in advertising and design, after which he worked in advertising and print design. He is currently concentrating on book graphics, illustration, painting and graphic design in Samara.

Tatarskikh: “Each drawing represents a whole story; if you like, a small or even a big fairy tale – but maybe also a true story! Dramatic scenarios that develop in such eternal and familiar spheres as love, creativity, the struggle of light and darkness, good and evil, the search for oneself and the meaning of life…”. 

Involuntarily - perhaps sometimes unintentionally on the part of the artist - many of his graphic fantasies lead the viewer directly or indirectly to literary sources. This is in the nature of things, because drawing and graphics have always been genres associated primarily with books and illustrations; books only come to life through illustrations! The threatening dragon, hiding as a black shadow behind a boy's back, forces us to think of the heroes of the writer and playwright Evgenij Schwarz. The great, immortal Gogol appears in the grotesque figures and faces of the story "The Nose", laughing, pulling faces, ironizing. The characters, who appear to be entirely of the present day, that the artist captures in the "Tram", are incomprehensibly reminiscent of the era and work of Mikhail Bulgakov. Aubrey Beardsley's clear, distinguished profile, his haughty, condescending gaze, calls us into the world of Oscar Wilde, and the portrait of another outstanding artist - MC Escher - leads us to Cervantes and Don Quixote.

Tatarskikh: "I do not devalue painting, especially since I paint myself. It represents a great layer of culture and creativity. But painting is about emotions, feelings and therefore something generalized, typified. Graphics, on the other hand, are more open and intimate, you have to look at them closely, you don't notice everything the first time.

It is like a sincere, open conversation in private; just walking past the pictures and saying, "How beautiful, how interesting, what a line!" is not enough. After all, they were not created to make an impression. Although in some cases, of course... But this is my innermost being, I try to be sincere in my work. The fact is that I cannot pretend. If I am going to deal with something, then I really deal with it... There are situations in a person's life when you say, "I have so much pent up inside me, I need to speak out." It is precisely this situation - speaking out with the help of my pictures."

Tatarskikh: "I draw - I live, I observe, I rejoice, I am sad, I am constantly amazed. I love - I draw..."