Alexei Tretyakov

Alexej Tretjakow (Russian: Алексей Третьяков, born November 12, 1965 in Angarsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union) is a German-based Russian painter, designer and restorer.

In 1991 the painter went public with his first personal exhibition. Several regional exhibitions with portraits of Russian painters, poets and musicians followed. At his father's request, he first decided to study engineering at the aviation academy in Irkutsk, from which he graduated with a diploma. At the same time, he studied painting and drawing at the art school there. After leaving the Air Force during the period 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 School of Design.[1] 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 also served as curator of the gallery The Main Style. Through this task, he increasingly came into contact with contemporary artists throughout Europe. A few years later he shifted the focus of his work to Leipzig. Together with Nadja Sasch, the artist runs a gallery with contemporary art named after him in Leipzig.[2]

Alexei Tretyakov is a distant descendant of the art collector and art fairytale Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898), whose collections founded the Tretyakov Gallery, one of the largest picture museums in Russia.

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. For his works, he chooses titles that emphasize the succinct. Another complex are portraits of poets, writers, composers and musicians. Many of these are associated with his Siberian hometown of Irkutsk, such as pianist Denis Matsuyev and conductor Ilmar Lapinsch. Lapinsch, shown conducting a symphony concert, embodies the spiritual world in which the compositions of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich were created. With fast, impasto strokes, Tretyakov creates moving images that, in addition to being physiologically recognizable, also look into the human soul. He shows the writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko with a vulnerable gesture. His whole destiny is reflected in the face - the time of repression and hope in equal measure....

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