Remain. From “Black book” series

Alexander Morozov always surprises with the breadth of his creative pursuits. He manages to simultaneously paint, create works resembling models and drawings of penitentiary facilities, write texts, model marble plaques, photograph and even record bird flights from the balcony of his workshop - the latter skill recently delighted the jury of a small but proud award, and the author was awarded a special award. It is possible to understand the feelings of connoisseurs of modern art - what, if not the flight of birds, is most accurately associated with artistic freedom and fantasy, with the ease and non-compulsion of art?

However, not everything is so simple in the matter of Alexander Morozov's creative freedom. With all the breadth of interests, the artist is very far from impulsiveness and, especially, the immediacy of his actions - in fact, so far that here it would be necessary to mention just the other pole in relation to what is called spontaneity: thoughtfulness, accurate calculation and very attentive to details. The mobility and at the same time the lack of fervor in the artist's character makes us think of mercury.; In one of his interviews, Pavel Pepperstein, the guru of Moscow's Young conceptualism (or “psychological realism”), said that the most valuable property is to be able to listen to noise from the outside, absorbed by any passion, and to dream, so to speak, with an open window.

Text: Evgenia Kikodze