Alexey Lantsev - Painting exhibition "The Form of relations" @ Red Bridge Gallery (Vologda, Russia)
ALEXEY LANTSEV
"Art is an adventure in an unknown world being undertaken by those only who are ready to take risks"
Vital, light, colorful - the paintings of the artist are perceived that way at first glance. Lantsev frees the audience from the hardships of life honouring the harmony of color, its possibilities and the atmosphere created by its combinations. Important sources for both his figurative and abstract canvases are important modernists, such as Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miro and Georg Baselitz.
However, there is a fine proportion of logic and emotionality behind the major fret of each work by Alexey Lantsev. Landscapes painted in Italy, France, Portugal, Georgia or Turkey embody the experience of an observer artist. His creative impulse is preceded by peering into the landscape, building plans, composition calculation and a mathematical approach to creating the structure of space. Behind the color saturation of the paintings there is a long mental work and a lot of sketches. That is why color planes, strokes and lines arranged as if abstractly and slightly chaotically create a three-dimensional environment where distances, the trajectory of movement and the extent of physical objects are felt.
The special value of Alexey Lantsev's painting lies in the fact that the viewer is not offered to evaluate the complex mental work behind each work. All we see is a harmonious image, the space that can be explored with a glance – but this would be impossible without the author's intention and conscious alignment of each composition.
Personal exhibitions:
1999 - Personal exhibition in the gallery "Les Oreades", Moscow, Russia
2001 - Personal exhibition at the gallery "Zee stone" + EastMeetsWestGallery, Hong Kong
2006 - "Galerie Ncadrement", France
2006 - Personal exhibition at the Embassy of Iceland
2007 — "Mimesis", Geneve, Switzerland
2008 - Personal exhibition at the Mars Gallery Moscow
1999 - Personal exhibition in the gallery "Les Oreades", Moscow, Russia
2010 - participant of the symposium "Alanika", Vladikavkaz, Ossetia
2011 - work on monumental murals in Chukotka
2012 - "Fluid Dynamics" at ArtSpace Gallery Cambridge, UK
2012 - participation in the exhibition "Metageo" dedicated to Kazimir Malevich/Nadia Brykina, AG Gallery, Zurich, Germany
2013 - work on a project at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2012 - "Fluid Dynamics" at ArtSpace Gallery Cambridge, UK
2014 - "Galerie Meinlchmidt", Balingen, Germany
2014 - project "Cite Internationale des Arts" Paris, France
2015 - Atlas."Роза Азора”, Москва, Россия
2016 - "Women's volleyball team of the village of Beregovoe", Rose of Azora Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016-2017 - "Counterpoints" Wolfson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2017 - "South Wind", Krasnodar Art Museum, Krasnodar, Russia
2018 - "Forms of relationships", Red Bridge Gallery , Vologda, Russia
2018 - "Fish is waiting", Rose of Azora Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 - "l'ete du caractere", Galerie De l'est Compiegne, France
2018-2019 - "organized optimism", Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 - "Three journeys. Events and people”. Rose of Azora Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 - "Tavrichesky landmark", Yalta, Sevastopol, Russia
2021 - "Memory modules", Abramova Gallery , Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 - "Sides of color", Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
Group exhibitions:
1998 - "Peter the Great in England” exhibition, London, UK
2001 - group exhibition, Dresden, Germany
2001 - Biennale of Modern Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia
2001 - "Arte-2001" exhibition in Switzerland , Basel, Switzerland
2002/2004 - work on monumental murals, Chukotka, Russia
2005 - Euro-Art exhibition, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 - Euro-Art exhibition, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 - exhibition at the Belgorod Art Museum..Pop/off/art, Belgrade, Serbia
2007 - HudGraf exhibition of modern graphics, EastMeetsWestGallery, New Manege, Moscow, Russia
2008 - "Art & Deco" exhibition, New Manege, Moscow, Russia
2008 - "Summer in Oreads" exhibition, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2009 - HudGraf exhibition of modern graphics, EastMeetsWestGallery, New Manege, Moscow, Russia
2009 - joint exhibition with Natalia Khokhlova in Constance, Germany
2010 - HudGraf Graphic Arts Fair, EastMeetsWestGallery, New Manege, Moscow, Russia
2010 - HudGraf exhibition of modern graphics, EastMeetsWestGallery, New Manege, Moscow, Russia
2011 - joint exhibition with Hans Mendler at Saby Lazi Gallery Stuttgart, Germany
2012 - participation in the "The Power of Water" project, EastMeetsWestGallery, Polytechnic Museum Moscow, Russia
2012 - "Metageo" dedicated to Kazimir Malevich/Nadia Brykina, AG Gallery, Zurich, Germany
2014 - joint exhibition with Natalia Khokhlova-Lanceva and Ekaterina Ermilova, Open Club, Moscow, Russia
2015 - "Closed garden", AZ Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 - curator and participant of the "Dialogue with Miro". exhibition, Cervantes Spanish Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia
2018 - The second Novosibirsk International Triennial of Graphics, Новосибирск, Россия
2019 - "Art Up!" Contest, Art Fair, Lille, France
2019 - " Asia Contemporary Art Show”, Hong Kong, China
2021 - "Landscape in sculpture, sculpture in landscape", State Russian Museum , Saint Petersburg, Russia
Novosibirsk Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
Abramtsevo Museum, Russia
NCCA Vladikavkaz, Russia
Belgorod Art Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
Collection "Wolfson College" Cambridge, UK
National Bank of Iceland
Raiffeisen Bank, Clifford Chance
Deutsche Bank (Germany)
Standard&Poor`s;
Collections of the Ambassador of Iceland, Japan and the USA.
In private collections in the USA, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, England.