Women, children, musicians, characters of popular beliefs, and various fantastic creatures... Vygovsky is complete unpredictability, pretentiousness, ingenuity, allegory, and secret, double or even triple meaning.
Alexander Vygovsky is a master of easel sculpture and an outstanding representative of contemporary art. He mainly works with wood; But there are also masterpieces made of plastic, metal and construction foam.
Women, children, musicians, characters of popular beliefs, and various fantastic creatures... Vygovsky is complete unpredictability, pretentiousness, ingenuity, allegory, and secret, double or even triple meaning.
There is no beauty per se in my sculptures. They are ugly rather than beautiful. At one time I tried to do beautiful things, but when it really started to work out, I myself found it uninteresting. Everyone does beautiful things, but I want to create something of my own.
"When I was ten, I played football. When he was twenty, he studied at the university to become an engineer. When he was thirty, he graduated from theological seminary. At forty he was a designer, sculptor and builder. I'm in my fifties today - and I don't even know who I am, "he said of himself. God sent this man to earth to try many more things: he worked as a rolling stock inspector on the railroad, as a furniture assembler in a factory, and as a village father. He struggled with alcohol...
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