Water, clouds moving across the sky on the painter's canvases become symbols of eternity, of the ever flowing and endlessly stagnant time. Figures are sitting by the water, gazing at reflected mirages as if they were reading fortunes in a looking-glass. A reality of the other side of a mirror is unfolding. This parallel world of dreams follows its own laws; the past, present and future are there amalgamated into a single instant. Alexander Akilov's works are contemplative of the nature of man and the ambivalence of reality, of the infinity of existing worlds. The artist's poems in painting recount the impenetrable, unceasing mistery of being; the delusive transience of earthly life, and the eternity.

This site presents a virtual gallery of Alexander Akilov's painting and information about the artist.