Alex Protsenko was born in 1995 in Kazakhstan, into a poor family, in a
small village where he spent all of his childhood. Currently, he lives and
works in Prague, Czech Republic.
As an artist, Alex likes exploring through his art different themes, such as:
emigration, understanding, feeling and achieving happiness, internally and
in society in general, and the price of achieving of happiness, the essence
of the feeling itself and current social problems.
The artist is not indifferent to these themes, as he went, both physically and
mentally, through these problems himself. A deep paradox exists in the
artist: on one hand, he wants to reflect on these themes by diving deeper
and deeper into solitude; and, on the other hand, he wants to keep an
endless dialogue with people from different parts of the world. Thus,
painting allows the artist to do all the above mentioned.
Alex Protsenko is a person who, on one side, acts upon his creativity
throughout his whole life, or who adapts his entire life to creativity; and on
the other side, does not have a specialized education. This person, on one
hand, is a successful entrepreneur, who has already built a business in the
real estate sector and on the other hand, a creator, pursuing his creative
goals beyond the boundaries of academic art and economic rules.
At the age of 18, Alex travelled a distance of 4,000 km, as an emigrant
student from deserted Kazakhstan to the center of Europe, without the
knowledge of the languages. Empty pocketed, except for his ambitions,
anticipation and great admiration for the cultures, mode of life, lifestyle and
opportunities of Europe. His path was endlessly thorny, winding like a
sinusoid stretching into the skies. At 28 years old, today, he is a man of
steel, whom little can frighten or lead into chaos; he is a settled family man
and the owner of a profitable company: he is an artist whose energy cannot
help but spill out onto his canvases.
