"My paintings - not about the people. I am writing space, part of which can be and people"
- Alexander Kostecki.
Alexander Kostecki born on 14 November 1954 in a family of artists in a historic building with views of the St. Andrew's Church and gave the Dnieper in the historical center of Kiev. Son Vladimir Nikolayevich Kostetsky, famous painter and Galina NOVOKRESHCHENOVA, sculptor. Draw started earlier than walk and talk. Sasha said, was a case of sitting in a stroller, utyanul pencil and parents' passports and malyakal gladly pencil on documents parents. Because of this, even at preschool age parents invited him for raising teacher of drawing. With fond childhood image of forgotten civilizations, ancient and mysterious characters. Houses were a lot of albums with image artifacts and architecture of ancient civilizations of America, Egypt and India. He graduated from the Kiev Art School in 1975 and enrolled at the Art Institute (Kyiv Institute of Art).
The institute Sasha continued to paint in his usual manner. He said that some teachers were very annoyed by this and argued that he had not graduated from the institute because of its remoteness from social realism, cultivated in those years. But in exams Sasha showed perfect possession receptions realistic images and safely Institute and graduated in 1979, he studied in the studio of Shatalina.
After graduation he worked in an art workshop. In the Soviet period, the official way was not recognized because creativity did not fall within the norms and ideals of socialist realism. Show these jobs while there was no place, and in fact it was dangerous. Yet in Soviet times was exhibited, but only underground shows, for example simultaneously personal and underground exhibition in the famous joint exhibition of the youth movement Rukh in 1977 in Kiev. All four of the submitted works after the exhibition had disappeared - a kind of recognition.
In 1988, with his first wife, Helen, moved to the United States. In New York came, as he himself said, with three small paintings under his arm. Suddenly work immediately were purchased, which allowed some time to live there, not too comfortable with difficulty settling with local realities. Then came the success, the press, TV. Exhibitions including New York, Washington, Philadelphia. Besides the main artistic activities and exhibitions performed iconographical orders for denominations Orthodox Church in New York. Were joint exhibitions with Mikhail Shemyakin.
In 1992 he returned to the one beloved Kiev. He participated in the drawing competition on the coat of arms of Kiev, his drawing won by a large margin, the current coat of arms of Kiev made ??a drawing of Alexander Kostetsky. At the official opening of the exhibition, he still did not like to walk. He did not like formal communication and bustle. In November 2003 he was admitted to the Union of Artists of Ukraine. The last years of his paintings bought in their collections Sergei Platonov, with the assistance of art critic Gregory Horoshilova collaborative Sergei Taruta collection Platar, then Rardi van Soest for the collection of the municipal museum of modern art in the Netherlands. Worked at home ..... Sasha Alexander died January 4, 2010 due to lung disease.
I do not care that millions of times
Pictures of the sky repeated.
I'm leaving for the languishing eyes,
There, where the map of the world were lost,
I'm going to thee, bottomless world.
In the field invisible under thin skin,
In other substance to another ester,
Where are all so terribly close, so it seems,
What does not know - no sky, no self -
And dreams, as birds leave the nest,
And secretly brewing, explosions Blind,
Singing invisible star.
I'm going to thee - for life
In no former sounds, I'm letting go
For dreams. Thy - where, perhaps, I
Will not know the last time produce ...
Vladimir Levi
The text of the article the second wife of the artist,
teacher, math and art critic Olga Kozlovsky.
