Selected dates:

August 4, 1950

Born at the Bada station of the Khiloksky district of the Chita region (RSFSR, today the Russian Federation).

1973

Graduated from the graphic arts department of the Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute .

Since 1985

Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists .

1987-1994

Member of the creative association "Square" .

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Memoirs of Alexander Maley:

"Alexander represented three-dimensional plasticity in the "Square" - a sculpture made of wood. His first work "Women's Torso", created in 1976, was the first modernist work among young and experienced Vitebsk sculptors and future members of the "Square". "Women's Torso" was also the first work of modern sculpture in Vitebsk, made at the European level.Without a special sculptural education and knowledge of modernism, the author presented an example of taste and plastic literacy inherent in the European avant-garde.The work was made in the style of cubism.Without an idea of the features of this direction, the artist intuitively created Alexander called his style “reverse relief”, but hardly a young man saw at least one reproduction of I. Zadkine and knew that in the “Vitebsk School” cubism was the basis for the study of contemporary art.

The sculpture immediately got into the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists and became an event in the artistic life of the city. From this work, Slepov is formed as a sculptor. After cubist plasticity, the artist experiments with a generalized flowing form, vaguely reminiscent of Matveev's form-making, but, of course, with his own plastic individuality. The masterpiece of this period is the work "Eternal Idol", stuck to this day in the local history museum in Zielona Gora (Poland). In the "Square" Alexander returns to his "reverse relief" and in this style makes a work that can also be attributed to unconditional success - "Women's torso with a ball."

In addition to the innate sense of the tree, Alexander Slepov has another quality - a subtle sense of the charm of a woman. All the best that the artist has done in sculpture and drawings is this image of a woman. Few contemporary Belarusian artists feel the feminine in the same way as Slepov. His, unfortunately, few sculptural female images, in addition to beautiful plasticity, carry a sense of the energy of female warmth and maternal affection, which the artist could convey to the viewer with a heartfelt feeling. In parallel with the sculpture, the artist is looking for new means of stylistic expression of color graphics, using the “charcoal and pastel” technique. This period of creativity falls at the end of the creative activity of the "Square".

In Alexander's graphic sheets, cubist aesthetics are again traced in conjunction with decorative thinking. Cubism (Orphic Cubism) received such a development, for example, in France in the 1920s, and its prominent representative is Fernand Léger. Léger distinguished himself from other Cubists in his work with color, using lighting and dynamics. But even in graphic works, Alexander remains true to the theme of the female image..." - © Alexander Maley: Vitebsk "Square": An artistic study of the nonconformist movement of artists in Vitebsk and Minsk (1987–2000), 196 pp.