La Plataforma gallery presents Block, its new exhibition

“The first blocks appeared in 2018 as a contrast to a set of abstract expressionist works I was creating. There were three blank canvases, waiting to be painted, but instead of small details, scratches and flow I decided to slice the canvas surface to huge and massive parts – blocks.

For me the blocks are the visual expression of the focus. I grabbed one basic material: ink, and let it stream – slowly, stroke by stroke, being pushed by my receptive movement. Focus, repetition and gravity – are three components of the current blocks.

It was also my first experience with ceramics – a thick mud, flattened and chopped. A basis was taken from my ink drawings, and then I played with depth and material itself, investigating it’s physical properties” – Sasha Sime

In the early 2000s he moves to St. Petersburg, where he studies Information Design at the University of Culture and Arts and Multimedia Art at the Pro-Art Institute.

In 2011 he moves to Barcelona, where he continues his artistic career, strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Catalan Povera Art, focusing on the emotional aspects of painting and on the relationship between the action and the image itself.

Years later, he moves on to a new visual language, drawing closer to the minimalist tradition, painting a field of color, gravitational points, and objects.

Sasha’s works combine the purity of the traditions of minimalism and the sensuality of abstract expressionism, subtly manifested in textures and details. As a plastic artist, he mainly deals with abstraction through objects, textures, shapes, volumes and various materials. Working with different mediums, Sasha intends to use a minimal and basic set of expressive tools, focusing on the relationship between the elements of his compositions: geometric shapes, color fields and three-dimensional volumes. Its compositions are based on fundamental physical principles: gravity, mass, absorption, density and resistance.