Biography
Alexander was born in Leningrad and lives and works in St Petersburg. Throughout his life he has mastered a wide range of artistic practices: painting, graffiti, airbrushing, illustration, 3D graphics. After completing his studies in design, Alexander created a web studio that received many international awards and professional recognition. All the accumulated experience and attraction to the knowledge of deep states inevitably led to the fact that only through contemporary art he would be able to expand the boundaries of personality.
In 2024, Alexander Mazy began to paint professionally, choosing a combination of media such as acrylic, airbrush and 3D printing. After carefully analysing his journey, he realised how amazingly the pieces of his life fit together and created a holistic concept filled with the beauty of the touch of Emptiness and Form. His work is a way of transcending mental structures, a way of interpreting and transmitting to the viewer the world of his personal and spiritual experiences.
Artist Statement
In my writings I explore what is unfolding in me and probably in all of us. They are about struggle, contemplation, transcendence and the unconditional beauty of the world of ego and consciousness.
In recent years I have been exploring my anxiety and traumas through psychological, philosophical and spiritual teachings. Through them I have clearly felt that the whole universe is in my consciousness and through creativity I can project it into an infinitely confused pattern of colours, ideas and meanings.
The key themes of my paintings are symbolic visual constructions of thoughts, traumas, states and interpretations that inhabit the inner world and cut sharp corners dig into sensual reality, closing the true self off from the infinite silence of the Kosmos.
I develop sketches carefully - using vector graphics and 3D modelling to more accurately capture shapes and to interweave of light. Using my background in graffiti and airbrushing, I experiment with materials and techniques, aiming to create contrast in all aspects of my artworks. To show how the poignancy of anxiety and the serenity of peace combine into a single perceptual experience, and how any opposites are doomed to hug each other forever.
