Alexander Limarev, multidisciplinary artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet and curator from Russia/Siberia. Participated in more than 1000 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of 78 countries.
His artworks as well as poetry have been featured in various online and print publications including BUKOWSKI ERASURE POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Silver Birch Press), SUPERPRESENT: A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, FLORA FICTION LITERARY MAGAZINE, HOME PLANET NEWS, NEW FEATHERS ANTHOLOGY, ANTI-HEROIN CHIC, ROUTE 7 REVIEW, UNLOST: journal of found poetry & art, #RANGER MAGAZINE, MAINTENANT etc.
Alexander Limarev is the 2024 Creatives Flash Nonfiction Contest winner in the visual art category at the Fort William Mountain Festival – Scotland; 2026 Best of the Net Anthology Nomination in the visual art category – USA.
How art is viewed
Artwork as viewed by Alexander Limarev is the way to speculate upon and explain to yourself such universal existential problems as a person’s life, double standards and their influence on individuals, public loneliness, social impotence, search of God, resistance to Evil. He thinks of his artwork as inner monologues developing over a particular thought or event and thus resembling nonsense, stream of consciousness in visual art, based on paradox, absurd, broken causative-consecutive and chronological connections, reflecting discrepancy, injustice of the outer reality. However, decorative artworks are a happy exception.
Becoming an artist
Becoming a visual artist came naturally, as creative process was an integral part of my life. It was not just a desire for self-expression, but also an attempt to understand how the world around me was structured. I sought the hidden essence of things. Art became my resistance to conventions and the dull, relentless pressure of society, which emphasized the importance of “practical and useful” professions. My desire to exist outside the system intensified as I learned about the fates of Soviet dissident artists who fought for the right to free expression. I began to understand that art is not just about creating artistic objects, but a powerful tool for exploring the human soul, society, and life itself, and that visual art is my personal form of protest against the constraints imposed by an indifferent and aggressive majority.
I chose this path to create a space where I could freely explore and transform the surrounding reality. My creativity became a way to delve into phenomena that are difficult to grasp through rational thought. I instinctively felt that creativity was a way to understand myself and the world around me.
Thus, I formed as a visual artist, not because of circumstances, but in spite of them. Art became an existential escape from false reality and an opportunity to glimpse into the depths of the human soul. I chose this path to dissolve the boundaries of perception and to show that even under strict censorship and limitations, one can find freedom in creativity
Links
It is very easy to find information about me on the Internet. Just type “Alexander Limarev” into any browser or search engine. Since 2012, my work is represented quite extensively, and there may be some earlier pieces as well. I currently do not have full access to this information.
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