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The story behind the “Delicate and Passionate” exhibition
Every exhibition has a story, just like every painting in it. The story of “Delicate and Passionate” began in December 2014 when the British gallery owner Andrew Hillier contacted me with an invitation to work together in his new gallery, where I was going to exhibit next to artists like Vladimir Volegov, Andre Kohn, Atroshenko. During our discussions, the vision of the desired collection of paintings gradually started to take shape – oil canvases with more delicate stories and ones of the more passionate flamenco series. Alas, the joint project with the gallery did not come to fruition due to Andrew’s deteriorating health, but the idea of the collection of…
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About my career path
Lilly Georgieva who consults women how to create clear vision about a career which brings joy and satisfaction, invited me to talk about my career path and the changes in the meantime. This is the outcome: “Hi, Alex. You have been an artist for twenty years, however for some years you worked in office environment at IT companies – a completetely different area. What provoked you to consider making a change? And how did it happen?” Most of the artists all over the world have a full-time job. It helps them to earn their living while they are developing as artists. At the beginning, painting balanced for me the stress…
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On artwork pricing
Probably one of the most difficult and controversial things in art is setting its price. It’s not an accident that the emerging artists often ask gallery owners, art marketing specialists and established artists how to set the price of their artworks. there are different factors forming this price, but overall they can be reduced to several general ones. As I meet with very different opinions, questions and statements about the artworks’ price, I would like to share some thoughts on the topic: “This is too expensive” One of the most common responses of (let’s tentatively call them) art viewers – they usually are not true buyers – is “this is…
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“Art is not work; it’s playtime”
Months after leaving the tracks of the office work, I am starting to understand what it means to really enjoy what you do – in my case, to be a full-time artist. I might have a bias from a year and a half of editing, because lately I don’t have any need to express my emotions in words. and maybe this is because I feel purposeful and confident, owing to moving in the right direction… My thoughts are not scattered, they are actually quite arranged. due to the difference in the status quo (I don’t work in an office, but in a studio; and I communicate only with ‘colleagues’ whom…
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To be or not to be…
Despite the crazy times we live in, more and more people around me make the decision to ‘break the chains’, as many will put it, and to become self-employed. Just like any other important life decision, this one is accompanied by inner dialogues and nagging questions, which provoke us to stand up for the decision ‘correctness’ every single day. We are justifying this decision before ourselves, not before the outside world. I suppose this inner turmoil is experienced to varying extent by all freelancers. Thus I would like to share the following interesting posts with those of you who experience anguish about the independent professional life: Daniel Sroka: Surviving as an…
