Sergey Ashkeev
alongside Irina Davydova
Russia
alongside Irina Davydova
Russia
[Painting and
Photography in Unique Installation]
"Key" Installation
Photographs and Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 2012
'Mypaintings are my children,
They are partof me.
This is what not everybody sees in oneself
Colour is escape'
"Way" Installation
Photographs and Acrylic and Oil Works on Canvas 2012
Taking the camera in my
hands many years later I had a remarkable feeling of genuine children’s joy.
And things were up and running. At first I just tried to catch a break with the
help of the camera, to get my mind off the humdrum, the hard working week with
its figures, meetings and reports… At the
same time every next shooting gave me something more than just brain reboot.
Every day I found increasingly more moments in my photos that brought out some
formerly untouched notes from the bottom of my heart. I had more and more questions but I developed
while looking for answers to the questions.
A year passed. Due to
what you might call a business need at the end of 2011, I decided to move from
Moscow to Saint Petersburg. This is not to say that it was a difficult decision
to make. But making a decision is one thing while reaping the fruits of it is
quite another thing. The lack of a habitual
circle of contacts became immediately evident. Apart from photography there was
a need for additional artillery. Accidentally on purpose but insistently my destiny
offered me ideas of creative personal fulfillment. One of the first
acquaintances I made in Petersburg was Irina, formerly a successful real estate
manager and at the time a real artist trying not just to express her emotions
through paintings but to get something mysterious and innermost across to
people. Irina once said:
Six months passed since
my move. I felt depressed and called Irina: “Ira, could you drop in? I’ve bought canvases and paints. I want to paint.” In less than an hour messy with paint all
over I who had before held a brush in the kindergarten was painting my first
masterpiece.
My paintings are
emotions. I can’t bring myself to say that I draw, paint … I pour my heart
out. At such moments the head goes blank
completely. I can’t say that the result is simple. Over time every painting reveals itself to me
at a new angle opening new horizons.
In the beginning it did
not even occur to me to sell or even just to exhibit my paintings before the
public. This is as good
as denuding oneself in public. But with time you understand that
Irina is right – the same as children the thing inside you does not actually belong
to you.
Try to show your
thoughts even if they are not standard. Any person reflecting on what is shown in
the painting or photo is already a breakthrough.”
-Sergey Ashkeev
