Alexander Florensky; Rink. Winter, 1987; paper, ink; 16.5 x 36.3

Alexander Florensky is the most popular representative of the large art clan of the Florensky family. With his participation in 1985, a cult group for the Northern capital "Mitki" arose, it was his drawings that illustrated the key book for this movement by Vladimir Shinkarev. "Mitki", whose landmarks in painting were Cezanneism and the "Parisian school", inherited from Leningrad artists from the "Order of Mendicant Painters" (among whom was Vladimir Shagin, father of the main "Mitka" Dmitry Shagin), united the artistic freedom of the generation 1960s with the edifying and soulfulness of the paintings of the Wanderers of the late 19th century. The result of all this, which was very clearly manifested in the work of Alexander Florensky, had features of postmodern irony characteristic of the art of the 1990s.

Numerous projects of Alexander Florensky, created by him, including with his wife Olga, cover most genres of contemporary art: "artist's book", public art, video and animation, objects and installations. They refer to such important concepts of our time as history, memory, museum, mythology of scientific knowledge. One of the first projects of the duet of Olga and Alexander Florensky in 1996 was "Moving towards Yye" - diaries invented and created by artists and a collection of artifacts by the fictional explorer of the polar regions, Professor Barinov. Already in this project, the artist's inherent interest in nature and the desire to fix it, "taking on a pencil" everything around, manifested itself. In the paintings and graphics of Alexander Florensky, one can trace the serial nature of their creation, typical for pop art, which does not negate the artist's enjoyment of the process of painting and drawing. Traveling is a natural part of Florensky's artistic life, whose home is located in both St. Petersburg and Tbilisi. The artist's guidebooks to different cities take the form of an "ABC": this project was launched in 2010, and now there are Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa, Jerusalem, Montenegrin, Tbilisi, New York, Voronezh "ABCs", as well as drawn travel diaries in Tuscany and Kirkenes. Nowadays, Florensky, with craft solidity, artistic lightness and "Mitkov's" humor, embodies the type of the universal "Renaissance man."

Works are in collections:
State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg);
State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow);
State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Moscow);
National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow)
Kiasma (Helsinki);
City Art Museum (Helsinki);
Private collections