This new series of works by Alena Kuznetsova departs from the previous, completely dissolved and tranquil liquid series and addresses the composition, graphics bordering abandoned esthetics, layers of lines and planes. There, traditional color as an independent medium is subjected to the form and is essentially of secondary significance. It just plays its part as a separate musical instrument in an orchestra. Continuing the tradition of mixed technique, Alena takes these media apart into layers as the layers of memory, working without sketches and deciding at every stage on the choice of the next layer: acryl, oil, cylinders, oil pastel, enamel, and again acryl (the order may vary).


Mechanical Ballet

Painting – as an object for experimentation and research. The artist refers to the maximum amplitude of the possibilities of the material from the ground, hard, concrete, pasty,through the liquid and fluid, flexible and smooth, in lightness, weightlessness, rarefied atmosphere, reduction, disappearance. The search for new faces and the volume of the third, the fourth, the nth state in the immutable duality (expansion – contraction, inhale and exhale, joy and sadness). These fluctuations, the expansion to occur with the material, texture, color, consciousness of the observer.

In color

The works of this series are based on several, sometimes past visual and intuitive impressions, and are associated with the elements (fire, water, air, earth), nature and landscape, the micro- and macrocosm, depths and atmospheric phenomenas, passing into outer space and changing the scale.