Exhibitions

Art Exhibitions, projects of А. Maley

In 1987, Alexander Maley organized the informal creative association «Square» (1987–1994), which was the spiritual successor of the association UNOVIS created, by K. Malevich in Vitebsk (1920–1922). During its creative activity the «Square» has actively cooperated with the informal movement of artists of St. Petersburg and Moscow, participated in the joint projects. In the late 80's – early 90-ies A. Maley was one of the leaders of the unofficial movement of artists in Belarus.

In 1994 and 1996 A. Maley under a grant of Soros Foundation organized and held the Ist and IInd International open airs «Malevich. UNOVIS. Modernity» with the participation of the artists from Russia, Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Belarus, to symbolize the return of the name of Kazimir Malevich in the bosom of the Belarusian culture.

1994 – the winner of the International open air «Malevich. UNOVIS. Modernity».

1996 – the winner of the town award «Constellation of Muses».

The artist awarded the Medal for Merits in Fine Arts.

In 1997–1998 based on his own experience, in collaboration with the National Institute of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the artist worked out his author's program «The Course of Modern Art» for art schools. The pedagogical method of contemporary art teaching is a consistent development of the pedagogical method of Malevich, when from the study of fundamental principles of modernism and the Russian avant-garde in theory and practice, through the artistic directions, the training passes to further forms of contemporary art of the XX century.

In 2002, on the basis of his workshop, he set up his own studio of modern art – «Maley's Workshop».

In 2006, in Children and Youth Palace of the Railway District the artist organized the author's studio-school of contemporary art for the older children with the 4-year period of study.

In the late 2000s A. Maley created paintings in the area of cube-square. The form created the feeling of a volumetric pictorial object living independently in the environment. In this case, the cube represented the volumetric space of the three-dimensional environment. Modeling of space by means of volume and plane, as well as the use of construction in the creation of the work testifies to the influence on the artist of the creative manner of El Lisitsky, who in the 20s years of the XX century created in Vitebsk architectural space PROUN (project of the new approval), which was composed of volume and plane.

«Reverse Information» – a fundamentally different vision and understanding of space. It's double anthropological space based on the three-dimensional and transcendent human consciousness, which is an alternative conception of space based on the nature and the universe. Cube-square is its aesthetic expression. The interaction of volume and plane (cube – the information about a square, square – about a cube) forms volume and temporal space expressed through objects and installations.

The works are found in:

 Vitebsk Art Museum, (Belarus);

 The Museum «Vitebsk Centre of Modern Art», (Belarus);

 National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, (Minsk, Belarus);

 The Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, (Belarus);

 Moscow Museum of Modern Art, (Russia);

 The Museum of Modern Art, Narva (Estonia);

 The Museum of Modern Art, Zielona Góra (Poland);

 NEXUS-GALLERY-2, Edinburgh (England).;

 The Museum of Nonconformist Art of St. Petersburg, (Russia);

 Pskov State Associated Historical and Architectual Art Museum-Reserve, (Russia);

Private Collection of Andrey Plesanov, Minsk, (Belarus);

 Private Collection of Ben Poplyansky, Toronto (Canada);

 Private Collection of Avelin Rosso, Nien-burg (Germany);

 Private Collection of Dr. Karla Biling, Berlin (Germany).