Alexey Savkin's exhibition "The Secret of All Secrets"
The Toy Museum is preparing a new major project - an exhibition trilogy "Toy Philosophy". It will feature works by artists Alexey Savkin, Andrey Suslov, and Sergey Gromov, three like-minded artists and old friends. The themes of the exhibition are the past as an art object, memories of childhood, and personal history as a subject of art.\r\n\r\nAlexey Savkin, a professional photographer with thirty years of experience, analyzes in this exhibition the connection between art and the past, creation and memory, creativity and personal experience. The response that an old toy, a memento from the past, or a vintage photograph evokes in our soul is the most selfless and the most sincere. An object from the past can not only engage the emotional sphere, but also bring to light hidden and, it would seem, lost memories, displaced into the realm of the unconscious.
Alexey Savkin
Alexey Savkin
Installation of the artists' collaborative object
Installation of the artists' collaborative object
Among Alexey's works presented at the exhibition, first and foremost one should mention triptychs, three-part collaged objects in which the middle section, the core, is formed by a photograph taken by the artist himself, and on the sides are placed an old photograph from Alexey's collection and a set of "ready-made" objects (toys, household items, natural objects). The parts of each triptych are united by a common theme—sometimes by a similar character, sometimes by texture, sometimes by plot and action.
