Alexey Alpatov: Full Headlights

Car headlights magically transform the space of the night. Full headlights brighten up the magical and mysterious world of Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales where the night hides a lot of mystical manifestations of reality. Mysticism, as a result of the synthesis of the night and full headlights, has been interested by Alexey Alpatov. He has produced the series of works devoted to this subject. Alexey himself says about the exhibition following things: “The Full Headlights cycle is a series of landscapes and objects, that open to the viewer the on night road, where the only light source is the light of car headlights. In a relatively short period of car’s history it’s meaning has changed from utilitarian option to the archetypal symbol, connecting into t a single unit together with the properties of “vehicles” such meanings as “house”, “lodging”, “way of expression”, and then turned into a sort of sacred object, a place for privacy, authentication attempts, and even purchase some mystical experience, opening its user previously inaccessible reality”.