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 [gallery of Alexander Nekrashevich]
No doubt Alexander Nekrashevich is one of the most remarkable and promising Belarusian artist. The artist sees himself as a postmodernist. He meticulously works on details. Sometimes he uses an airbrush to redraw the details or simulates the crazing effect. Sometimes he combines media and materials deliberately to avoid a feeling that what we see in result is a handmade artwork. Hence, such obvious antitheses as "natural - artificial", "living - nonliving world", "man - animal" blur and look no more than an illusion. "Colliders, robots, aliens- it all incredibly fascinates me, and in this context I am a poet of modern aesthetics," admits Alexander Nekrashevich.
The most recent Alexander's huge project was "Tuning", and now the artist is working on his newest series, which he outlines as "Gods & Heroes".
The main features of "Tuning" series are colorful fantasies/reflections on interaction between techno-industrial environment and human beings, and in general about an impact of the modern civilization on humans. The series is dedicated to futuristic images. "In my project "Tuning" I concentrated on the topic of artificial worlds: external and internal," says Alexander Nekrashevich. "Humankind adjusts to transformed landscapes, air, water, GM food and the like. It kind of evolves with the development of the civilization. We go through changes on physical, spiritual and genetic levels. It appears as a inter-tuning: we alter nature, nature changes us. And this interaction, apparently, is growing exponentially. The more fundamentally we fine-tune the outside world, the stronger it impacts on our inner world.
The "Gods & Heroes" series is about the transformation of the classical, mythological Gods in a new generation of gods and heroes. It's the birth of the "new mythology". Many of the artworks are made from nitrogenous lacquer on aluminium surface. This technique is inspired by airbrushing - Alexander used to professionally airbrush cars. 
Alexander Nekrashevich was born in Pinsk, Belarus in 1973.
1985-91 – Art College, Minsk, Belarus
1991-97 - the Belarusian Art Academy, Minsk, Belarus
since 2004 – member of the Belarusian Artists’ Union
Solo Exhibitions:
2006 – ‘Equation with Two Unknown’, Podzemka Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007 – ‘Choice of Wind’, Art Gallery ‘Collection’, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 – ‘Labyrinth’, Art Gallery ‘Collection’, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 – ‘Tuning’, Podzemka Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2009 – ‘Magic Trick’, Kunstgalerie ‘Parsuna’, Salzburg, Austria
Group Exhibitions:
1995 – ‘White Art Festival’, ‘the Palace of Art’ Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
1997 – ‘Personality, Space, Time’, ‘the Palace of Art’ Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - ‘Eros and Thanatos’, Art Gallery ‘ArsLonga’, Minsk, Belarus
2006, 2008 – Exhibition of Emerging Artists, ‘the Palace of Art’ Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007 – ‘Moscow International Art Salon - 2007’, the Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2007 – ‘Sejny – 2007’, Dominican Monastery of Sejny, Poland
2007 – ‘International Art Forum of CIS Members’, Astana, Kazakhstan
2007 – ‘Dead Head and an Apple Pie’, ZOYA Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2008 – ‘Bloom Day’, Art Gallery ‘Collection’, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 - the 1st Belarusian Biennale of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, ‘the Palace of Art’ Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2008 – ‘Art-Bulba’, Art Gallery of the University of Culture, Minsk, Belarus
2008 – ‘Techno-Art’, Art Gallery of the University of Culture, Minsk, Belarus
2008 – ‘Word and Image’, Art Gallery ‘Labyrinth’, Minsk, Belarus
2008 – ‘Together’, ‘the Palace of Art’ Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2008 – ‘Art-Step’, Art Gallery ‘Labyrinth’, Minsk, Belarus
2009 – ‘Art Studio’, Academy Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2009 - 'Belarusian Pavilion at 53d Venice Biennale in Minsk’, National Exhibition Center 'BelExpo'. Minsk, Belarus
2009 – ‘Vilnia/Vilnius’, ‘Arch’ Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 – ‘Art-Vilnius’, Expo Center, Vilnius, Lithuania 
[gallery of Alexander Nekrashevich] |
