An Artist Talks, Alexandr Rodin July 1st 2010, Tacheles,Berlin

Photo Petrov Ahner

Alexandr Rodin, famous Bielorussian artist, talks about his childhood and life in the soviet union before the collapse of the regime. Today the Bielorussians still have political circumstances, that make artists struggle to create and  make survival a little more complicate. 
And yet there is a special solidarity between these artists, precisely because of those particular political characteristics.

Global Warning is an ongoing Project, it is mostly a great series of paintings, some of them are monumental, and also a series of performances, where Alexandr Rodin becomes a mysterious Monk or Gourou dressed in black carrying strange animals with him.

 The complexity of his works is amazing and his compositions take  you  through a journey into his imaginary worlds: construction and deconstruction, life and death, darkness and light, all opposites interact, herein to challenge the viewer and his senses. The paintings conspire  to make the viewer react and discover new boundaries, inside himself and around him. 

The artist has  a deep concern for environemental and political issues and you can follow these demonstrations of life force, were energy is  constantly present throughout all his paintings and they are a Global Warning.

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