Alexey Kazachenko

Throughout his career as an artist, Alexey works in many artistic styles etching techniques, dry watercolors, mixed media, encaustic and collage techniques. Collages are the artist’s special pride. And he rightfully deserves it. The multi-stage and multi-layered image is stunning with its deep color and expression.

Each piece of white paper is hand-painted by the artist. Alexey does not use chemical materials or artificial additive. Only natural ingredients.

Then follows a complex multi-stage path from inspiration to implementation. We can see and feel the end result of the artist’s painstaking work in his paintings. In each of his works, the artist leaves a piece of his soul, his heart and his love.

Alexey Kazachenko was born in 1962 in Magdeburg, GDR. When he was five years old, Alexey understood, that he wants to become an artist. In 70-s he the used to attend art lessons, where his first teacher talked with him a lot about art. This conversations strengthen his desire to become an artist and tie his life tightly with art.

As an artist Alexey began to develop in relatively early age, but he decided to continue developing his skills not in art schools or universities. His first success was in his teenage years, when he worked as independent artist on Arbat street.

The paintings by Alexey Kazachenko are the reflection of reality in his own interpretation. It looks like something familiar to you and, perhaps, some memories are connected with it. Maybe it is doll in red dress with funny ribbon in her hair, with which you played in your childhood, or it is faceted glass, for which you used to drink tea. All things which your vaguely remember, but one hundred percent sure, that they existed. The masterpiece can be created only under impact of emotions and events. The inspiration is taken from a blank page: without sketching or planning.

The inspiration for his paintings Alexey finds in his dreams.

His main purpose is to let the viewer to feel the atmosphere and to give an opportunity to see again the best moments in his life. the ideology of using is new combination of possible and impossible.

Gradually his paintings became famouse. Now his paintings are stored in many private and public collections in Russia, USA, Netherlands, Japan, France, Italy and Switzerland as well as the numerous personal exhibitions (Pitsburg, Riga, Miami, Bologna, Moscow, etc).