Alexander Faley

Born in 1959 in the Byelorussian village of Zadveya, Alexander graduated with honours from the Vitebsk Institute of Technology for the Consumer Goods Industry with a degree in Garment Design. The artist currently lives and works in Baranovichi (Belarus).

Although Faley’s early abstract works were visually concise, his creative manner is gradually evolving towards increasing expressiveness. The artist creates paintings and graphic works, also working in sculpture and smithcraft. Despite the many parallels with the experiments of the 20th-century artists, Faley’s oeuvre sees western Abstract Expressionism being infused with a reckless and mischievous Slavic temperament: at times the viewer almost hears some devil-may-care ethnic tunes in the background.