SOCIAL HYPER-REALISM

ALEKSANDR ALYONIN

 

Social hyperrealism is an extremely painful form of critical realism; this is an ultra-radical form of visioning and feeling social reality, the heart of the society, a society`s subconscious, the soul of the society.

Every person is a part of the society, so everyone is affected by what this society feels. 

 

The society has a big heart but instead of drawing this heart the artists draw pictures which fit the interior of some kitchen or living room for money and fame. But when they come to my exhibition they will see what the heart of the society they live in but are blind to is feeling. I consider myself a radical representative of the classical Russian artists union who picture the suffering of the people, gloomy routine and hopelessness of the Russian life.

 

This society is unique because here a traditional western expressionism turns into the social hyperrealism which portrays social identity.

 

If an expressionist draws his own identity, a social hyperrealist draws the identity of the whole society. Western expressionists or critical realists are full of self-importance personalities living in euphoria and silence. So their art is the same. They are welcome children in their mother`s womb and this fact affects their art too. They draw their pictures and their loving mother or father takes them with love.  

 

Social hyperrealism is a genre that arose in a dysfunctional environment and is a reaction to it. If they were unwanted children, if they were in the womb of loveless lonely mother who would beat her stomach every night and shout to God:  " what did you punish me for?!" - then they would become social hyperrealists portraying the suffering of their mother. So from now there will appear a new direction, where the artist-social hyperrealist loses his soul and his feelings and expresses the feelings of his mother - the society, in whose womb he is locked.

 

Social hyperrealism expresses mental condition of the society. Maybe this society will be unique because this trend is originated here, because it is here where an original Western Expressionism found its continuation and development to the new level.

 

Social hyperrealism arose because the critical realism is not strong enough to express the reality of this society.

 

 

As the water turns into steam while boiling, social hyperrealism appears where a particular social mental component exists.

 

These paintings are created in a frenzy and extreme stress, when Tears filled the eyes of artists.

This is an extreme form of public sympathy, an extreme form of the relationship and interaction with the society.
 

 

It's an emotional, intuitive, sensual dialogue with the soul, with the subconscious, with the heart of this society. I do not want to but I’m forced to express this in pictures like these.