01.12.2022
Alexey Bevza
Art is the Secret Language of Being.
The artist, like any magician, shaman, thaumaturgist or alchemist, knows that his main job is to capture and channel the outflow of spirit into matter.
Alexey Benza was born in 1993. Predominantly works in the technique of traditional painting/graphics. Prefers figurative composition, uses a realistic manner of writing in the space of myth. Lives and works in Moscow.
MANIFEST
Art is the Secret Language of Being.
The artist, like any other magician, shaman, thaumaturgist, or alchemist, knows that his main job is to capture and channel the outflow of spirit into matter.
By "spirit" here, of course, we mean the subtle fractions of the higher Reality (with a capital letter), which pass a kind of transmutation through the prism of the author's perception and, reflecting from him as from a mirror, cast glare, rays on the material base: canvas, paper and so on, thereby generating a work of art, "materializing" it.
Reality (with a capital letter) is such a space of the supersensible, superhuman, mountainous level, which is invisibly present along with reality (with a small letter), being a metaphysical basis that simultaneously disavows and includes it in itself.
By reality (with a small letter), we mean the world of the palpable, that is, the reality given to us in the senses.
Why, why would an artist channel his spirit into matter?
The artist is a dependent being. His imaginary subjectivity is often overestimated, being only a musical instrument, like a violin or a flute in the skillful hands of the true Author.
"And from somewhere they hear singing..." - artists simply can't keep what they hear within themselves without reproducing it. Like a gravely ill person, condemned to infect everything around him with his disease.
Is it possible to stop this flow, to block all channels of communication and interrupt the retransmission? Perhaps we can, but then how will Reality contact us? If we cut off this possibility, wouldn't we thereby close the auditory window through which communication between the worlds is established?
Thanks to ciphers, codes, and cryptograms, it is possible to send secret messages from there, from the dreamspace of meaning, to our world on the other side as well. Art resorts to all kinds of mythologies, metaphors and allegories for this purpose.
The secret language is, of course, impossible to learn. But it is necessary to wander somnambulously through the "Chinese room," in order to give its own, special meaning to everything we touch in the darkness.
Cognition of the Dark Speeches sent down by God into the world, the birth of a star from the cosmic dance of insights, purification from the stupefaction of modernity - this is the directional expansion in the Land of Great Dreams...
