Artist Statement


My name is Aleksei Blagodarev, and I’m a conceptual artist.
I create images of men not to objectify, but to reclaim.

My work explores the beauty of the male body through a conceptual figurative lens, where the figure becomes a vessel — of memory, desire, identity, and silence. By removing facial features, I invite the viewer to step in, to reflect, and to feel rather than decode.

There’s a quiet tension in my paintings — between elegance and exposure, between form and emotional fragility. Influenced by fauvism, cubism, and classical mythology, I’m not interested in realism, but in presence — symbolic, sensual, and unapologetically human.

I believe that beauty can shift perception. That aesthetics can challenge bias. And that form can carry truth — without explanation.


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