Alexey Bukinholtz was born in Grozny in 1965, finished the local art school, and then the Art College of Stavropol. He worked in the techniques of painting, drawing, design; took part in numerous exhibitions.
In 1999 Alexey with his family moved to Israel. His pictures have been presented at exhibitions in different cities of Israel, as well as in Germany, Russia and the USA.
The critic’s comment:
In the artist’s works painting borders with drawing, abstraction carries in itself a hint of figurativity, bright coloured patches get on well with semi-tones. Some of the works are done in oil, others in mixed techniques. Besides canvas, Alexei frequently uses cardboard for his pictures – a simple and popular material, something from the sphere of the ordinary. It gets covered by bright, rich lacquers intended for stained-glass windows. And on that shining surface one can see traces of a pencil and scratches.
In the midst of all this variety the artist is attracted by the unusual force of expressiveness of both a colour patch and of a line. For him it is both a shout and a whisper. Alexey, with his delicate feeling of the force of verbal composition in poetry, reaches the same inexplicable effect in his picturesque composition - expression of the inexpressible. However, Alexey’s pictures are not a monologue of the author. This is an invitation of the spectator to a dialogue, in which the artist first of all will dumbfound the interlocutor, entice, captivate or bewilder - and then will leave him alone. He will leave him on the border between dream and reality, in intense expectation of something which does not occur on the canvas, will leave him with a painful question mark on his heart. One will desire to call to the artist - return, I can’t understand it, and I can not forget it, something has happened to me already. The following impulse will be to calm down on the decorative effect, beauty, or maybe the agitating effect of the picture; one can just say - it is a good interior work, it will keep my vital space from the ordinary and the boredom. However, if you really bring it in your vital space, your imagination will start to create new images of the reality, one after another, into which these magnetic signs are taking you. A deep thought is sure to occur to you. Just as it used to be in the childhood, when you were to go to sleep and the only thing that could reconcile you with that was some cherished thought to stay with. And only you knew how happy you were about it. |
