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Alexander Grechanik is developing his own way in art, and most of his works are the 'cadres', 'snapshots' from life, not just the impression, but
the sense and feeling of the moment something happened and now is stored in memory like the photo in the family album.
Besides the chosen episode has some meaning, which is difficult to explain. All of his works have some 'secrets' in them, not special tricks, but details which
many people do not see even after many times of seeing the painting - like the flowers in the hand of a wolf-man in his 'Theatre on the wooden chairs'.
In one painting the rings of the jugler are tied in air, on the other the pair is walking both on the three sticks somehow managing it...
But the main thing is the idea which made the author to paint this very image. For example the 'Jula' painting: as Alexander explained it to
me in conversation - 'you see, the woman, she is spinning, turning around and around all her life. she is like 'jula', the children's toy. And 'jula' already
fell and stopped, and the woman continues to turn, spin, whirl...' - and when you look at the painting, you see the turned in a spiral woman, which is running
like a squirrel in a wheel all her life, and even in static pose, even resting, she is nevertheless turning and turning.
And as the paintings has this deeper layer, they attract.
Alexander Dmitriev
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