Requiem Painting

Alexey Chernigin Born in 1975 in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of famous Russian artist Alexander Chernigin. From 1990 to 1994 studied painting and graphic design at Nizhny Novgorod School of Arts. Educated at Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Since 1998 the member of Russia Artists' Union. Since 2001 the faculty member of "Institute of Humanities and Arts" which is the part of "Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering"" at "interior design" department. Engaged in painting, drawing, interior design, photography. Works are in private and galleries' collections of Russia and abroad. "The female figure for the painter is the space, the infinite variety of variations and nuances both in plastic, proportions and in the search for new readings of the same model. This is not just a frozen form, but a bundle of energy, emotions and feelings. It pulsates life, it moves and breathes. The very structure of the skin interacts miraculously with light, giving the surface of body a special color depth. Like Gumilev: “And under her satin the blood poisoning skin runs..." My paintings are often attributed to the genre of erotica, for me this erotic subtext is of course interesting, but not primary in the painting. For me it is more interesting when it appears in the course of work, and I do not is the original, or, even worse, the only task. Each new work is is a new story. It happens that the work is written in one day, it happens that it is born for years. I love it when the work is immediate, but it is rare, it is often simply not feasible technically. But we consider only the process of painting, but there is also a “submarine” part- this is a development of the concept, finding the composition sketches, essays. The picture is not born suddenly, it is always the formation of life, the idea appears as a slight breeze, as the twenty-fifth frame, flashed and stuck somewhere deep down. Until some time it does not have an effect until the random association does not impose on it, causing a completely new interpretation. Then it begins to spin like a wheel, acquiring all new images and gradually developing into the inner picture, which is already bursting through, it is haunted. And the fun begins .. When the work is finished, it seems that all is said, but over time you begin to feel that it again inside you is spinning, catching images, accelerating the flywheel.