Alexander Grechanik Statement

Life is the sequence of events which sometimes we don’t consider as important ones. We consider them occasional, the play of the chances. We call them ‘little things’ of life. But these very ‘little things’ are the links of a chain, which is the life itself. 
Life. Fate. Path. The endless film of million frames. I am interested in only one frame. That very frame where I am, now. Just at this instant. 
We are not able to change our past, but our future is created in our present. The future not yet covered with dust of time, not idealized by memory, allows my pictures to escape this chain. 
Is it possible to paint the feeling? Hesitation, worry, isolation, care, tenderness, love, and all that which is impossible to describe by words? However one can paint an image!
Image risen up to symbol. Everything matters here. Color, form, the position of hands, turn of the head, eyes... If you had managed it, then all which seemed separated turns into something whole. 
Once could find the images similar at the first sight. The same personages: faces, objects, desert landscapes, birds and fish. But this is only a shallow impression. 
Remember kaleidoscope. Every time everything is different. The ornament, the color, the composition. Every time there is the feeling of the framed space where there is no repetition. Never. And it’s just the composition of few glass pieces. That’s it. 
It is difficult now to remember, why this or that picture was creates just so. Picture turned to a symbol. And symbol lives its own life. 
Out of the frames of time. 

Alexander Grechanik Biography

Alexander Grechanik was born in Moscow in 1955. From childhood he demonstrated active interest and outstanding results in painting. In 1972 being a schoolboy he won the 2nd place in the Exhibition of the Children drawings in Japan. But up to 1978 because of life circumstances he had no possibility to make his talent work in full. He studied in technical Institute, worked on a plant. In 1978 he joined Art College and almost immediately became a 'star' among other young talented students. 
His personal exhibitions gained success already when he studied in the Art College. In 1981 he joined the MOSKH (Moscow Art Union), having experience of participation in such prestige exhibitions as the Young Artist of Russia (1978) at Kuznetsky Most Gallery, one of the central galleries in the capital of the Soviet Union. 
All the time during his education he tried to manage different techniques and combined methods of the classic art school of 'old masters' with new streams and currents in modern art. He was an active participant of the famous in Russia and abroad Gallery at Malaya Gruzinskaya street, where the young artist of the 'new wave' demonstrated their understanding of life as opposition to the Soviet regime. But Alexander never took so called 'dissident' position, though, being a Jew, he could do it. The main reason of this was his deep, philosophical thinking and big life experience, the capital which he already posessed and which was reflected always in his paintings. 
Since 1986 Alexander participates in international exhibitions, visitors of the galleries of Vienne, New York, Beer-Sheva, Jerusalem, Helsinky, London and others have seen his works and many prominent collectors bought his paintings. 
Alexander lived and worked in Israel since 1990, where he also gained success as an outstanding author, whose works, always different in style and technique, are always reflecting the vision of author, his specific and profound sometimes even analythical conception of the Universe. The interest to details in his paintings (especially in the last period of work) reflects also his credo of 'kaleidoscope' or 'framed' world which could be understood only when one sees his paintings in person, face to face.

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