Александр Дедушев
Publications
"WHAT CANNOT BE TOLD BY WORDS ..."
Do you remember what pictures opened to your gaze when you awoke up after sleep? That was quite different gaze which could distinguish accurately fairytale characters in a usual fold of the curtain or in the habitual wall-paper design. Even the write-washing of the ceiling presented its surprises making your imagination happy by unbelievable pictures. At that moment the wonderful world, the world of secret and some mystic charming opened to you. The clouds in the sky were not simply clouds, the ringlets of smoke from the chimney of the house reminded you a tastful boublik (thich ring-shaped roll).
I think that the drawing images of Alexander Dedushev come out of this gaze. When you are looking at his drawings you have the same feelings and try to understand what made the figurative series. May it be cloud-sheet or frost free designs or puffs of chimney smoke? The works of Dedushev inspired with nostalgic force. They contain the personal intonation of the lyric speculations of the artist beeing especially in tune to our time with its unsatisfacted demand of the beauty and the purity of life, with its constain troubles of speculations about the world. Wisdom and primitive naivety naturally combining and defining the creative nature help the artist through the chamber manner of composition and organic tissue of the sensual world to create images harmonizing with childish open-heartednees.Active from shapes as if just eradicated out of the surrounding chaos are coupled in a tangle and they seem to explore by the single powerful movement which makes one see something unusual in prosiness.
Yriy Reznik.
Lessons in silence.
“A master manifests himself through restraint.”
These words describe Alexander Dedushev’s palette.
It seems that every new day in Moscow brings the opening of one or another art exhibit. Moscow’s galleries flaunt the names of their reigning artists, each one seemingly brighter than the last. Small wonder that the spoiled public rarely takes notice of young artist. Nevertheless, true talent has occasionally emerged from the generation of artist coming of age in the 1990s, talents far removed from epigonism or the shock value of kitsch.
Alexander Dedushev. Whose exhibit was on display through June 23 in the Vostochnaya Gallery, belong to this rare category of genuine talents.
It is almost a cliche now to say that the visual range of Dedushev,s paintings is deliberately impoverished. The subject are also deceptively simple: a house, a pond, a family, a girl, a man walking against the wind, a tree, a sitting woman, all of which seem to exist outside of time. Moreover, Dedushev’s approach to spatiality might seem, somewhat limited. Classical perspective, inverse perspective, compositional rhythm –all these dissolve into a plasticity of color, into the raised surface of a mask. Colored dots complete with each other in restrained expressiveness, while serving as focal points of energy. Looking at this rivalry of colors, you sense the central theme that emerges through the subtle nuances of the painting - the profound meaning underlying human life. Dedushev’s people are overwhelmed by the wind of cosmic loneliness, torn apart from each other by mortal thoughts, and yet they are saved by a certain communality that cannjt be expressed verbally. Confused smiles, shy glances, shining faces… They understand and accept the word silently, in all its cleansing tragedy. Are we who view these works capable of assimilating their lesson in exalted silence?
Alexander Lavrin.
General Editor of magazine “Were Moscow” 1996
He is attracted by the theme and s it the assonance rather than the descriptive manner, the rhythm rather than the letters. It is the philosophic reason now found by its tone and silhouette. His fashion is terse, his plot is intimate and his implementation is picturesque and mild.
Victor Lipatov.
The light glides over he bumpy surface of his canvases, giving them mysterious silvery shimmers, glimmering once the direction and intensity of the stream changes.
The pattern is dense and condensed, the contours are sombre, the rejection of minor elements in favor of the main part is complete.
Victoria Lebedeva.
Colour spots might be rivaling one another in reserved expressiveness, in ability to accumulate intrinsic energy. Penetration into the competition of colours and shades makes one feel the expressed idea of metaphysical nature of a man.
Alexander Lavrin.