Alexei Tretyakov

Alexej Tretyakov ( Russian : Алексей Третьяков, born November 12, 1965 in Angarsk , Irkutsk Oblast , Soviet Union ) is a Russian painter, designer and restorer living in Germany .

Life and career

In 1991 the painter went public with his first personal exhibition. Several regional exhibitions followed with portraits of Russian painters, poets and musicians. At the request of his father, he first decided to study engineering at the Aviation College in Irkutsk , which he completed with a diploma. At the same time he studied painting and drawing at the local art school. After leaving the Air Force during the time of political upheaval, he studied at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg. From 1996 he participated in projects outside of Russia.

His international breakthrough came in 2006 with an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York . Two years later he began giving master classes at the Irkutsk Design College. At the same time he became a member of the organizing committee of the Center for Contemporary Art, New Museum in Irkutsk, and has since been the curator of the gallery The most important style . Through this task he came increasingly in contact with contemporary artists all over Europe. A few years later he moved his main focus of work to Leipzig. Together with Nadja Sasch, the artist runs a gallery named after him with contemporary art in Leipzig.

Alexej Tretyakov is a distant descendant of the art collector and art fairer Pawel Michailowitsch Tretyakov (1832–1898), who founded the Tretyakov Gallery , one of Russia's largest picture museums, with his collections .

Artistic positions

Tretyakov is a versatile artist. Expressive colors determine his abstract, mostly large-format pictures. With this group of works he asserts his spontaneity, his commitment to l'art pour l'art , to the freedom of art that exists for its own sake. He chooses titles for the works that underline the succinctness. Another complex is portraits of poets, writers, composers and musicians. Many of them are connected to his Siberian hometown Irkutsk, like the pianist Denis Matsuev and the conductor Ilmar Lapinsch. Lapinsch, who is shown conducting a symphony concert, embodies the spiritual world in which the compositions of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich were created. Tretyakov creates moving pictures with quick impasto strokes, which, in addition to being physiologically recognizable, also look into the human soul. He shows the writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko with a vulnerable gesture. His whole fate is reflected in the face - the time of repression and hope alike.

Since the beginning of his artistic activity Tretyakov has also found inspiration in literary works and in art history, especially icon painting . In the painting The Conversation he quotes a valuable icon that Andrei Rublev painted in 1406. The divine is present to him through the saint. “All that remains is what is given from above,” the painter explains his background, which is shaped by religiosity. He also expresses his admiration for icon painting as a restorer of this art.

With the portraits of Adam and Eve , he not only takes up an old iconographic motif. It also bridges current cultural barriers. The portrait of the first male earth citizen was made in Germany, its female counterpart in Irkutsk. Eva , who moves forward dynamically, provocatively holds the apple up between both hands and weighs its value with her gaze.

Like Picasso, Tretyakov is fascinated by bullfighting. He transfers the sketches made in a Spanish arena into monumental paintings that illustrate the drama of the creature. The bull is a prisoner of his tremendous strength, which drives him into battle again and again. The rapid strokes with the spatula underline the wild nature of the animal.

Landscape painting also has a permanent place in the artist's work. Lake Baikal, not far from the Siberian metropolis, with the island of Olkhon and its surroundings are the motif for numerous pictures. His theme is undisturbed nature, loneliness and the existential. In the Thuringian city of Jena , the urban landscape inspired him for a series of works in which architecture is shown in the field of tension of the surrounding human-shaped natural space. Since 2012 Tretyakov has been represented and supported in Germany by the Galerie Kunstraum Jena .

Exhibitions

1991 Personal exhibition at the N-Troop at the Step station in the Chita area
1993 Exhibition in the picture gallery in Bratsk, together with L. Voronzow
1993 Youth, Creation, Present , Exhibition in Irkutsk
1998 Personal exhibition in the Sayansk Picture Gallery
2005 Personal exhibition of painters and poets in the Mark Sergeev Writers' House, Irkutsk
2006 Personal exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
2006 International Photography Exhibition in Baikal-ARD

2006 Personal exhibition in the Irkutsk Art Museum

2011 solo exhibitions in Altenburg

2012 and 2015 personal exhibition in the gallery Kunstraum Jena

Many solo exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Korea, USA, China, Luxembourg and other countries. His work can be found in museums and galleries in 43 countries.

Awards

2005 International Contest Contemporary Portrait
2006 UNION professional standard badge for designers in Russia High design
2006 International Festival of Modern Art in Shanghai, special award

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Tretyakov, Alexei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian painter, designer and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Angarsk , Russia

↑ Третьяков, Алексей Валерьевич. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Russian).
^ Tretyakov Gallery Leipzig. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
^ Tretyakov 2015: Dr. Cornelie Becker-Lamers, MA Retrieved April 8, 2019 .

[1] Третьяков, Алексей Валерьевич. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Russian).

[2] Tretyakov Gallery Leipzig. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .

[3] Tretyakov 2015: Dr. Cornelie Becker-Lamers, MA Retrieved April 8, 2019 .