ART
Alexander Rodin
1947-2022
Master of Experimental Painting and Performance
Master of Experimental Painting and Performance
Alexander Rodin is a contemporary artist from Belarus. He is known for his large-sized canvases full of jaw-dropping details.
Alexander Rodin’s paintings are an event quite unexpected for Belarusian art with its ideological taboos and conventional norms. The art composition in his paintings is based upon the multi-faceted reflections of infinite spaces. The latter undergo constant changes of urban, geological, technocratic and biological nature. And in order to take them to a single image-bearing system Alexander chooses a high panoramic point of view and uses practical monochrome colors of various tonalities.
Diverse sides of Alexander Rodin are seen throughout his works. He seeks to cover everything – both abstractionism and cosmic landscapes. He often turns to technique called “pointillism”. Alexander’s works have always been notable for their polysemanticism. They are compared to the game of chess. Some of his admirers once said – “the first impression from his painting -- they couldn’t have been created by a man”. Alexander paints the universe with microscopic precision. The longer one peers at those silver-black abysses the deeper they become...
Tacheles / Dach
Alexander Rodin resided at Kunsthaus Tacheles (Berlin, Germany) for 12 years.
He organized the DACH Experimental Art Festival since 2003 in Germany and Belarus.
He organized the DACH Experimental Art Festival since 2003 in Germany and Belarus.
Biography
- Alexander Rodin was born in Baranavichy, Belarus in 1947
1971 graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts
1980 became a member of the Belarusian Artists Union
2000 became a member of the International Guild of Artist
2001 became a member of the Contemporary Art Association
2001-2012 a resident artist of Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany. - Personal exhibitions:1980 — Hall of the Belarusian Artists Union, Minsk, Belarus
1988 — "Rush Hour", Museum of the Great War, Minsk, Belarus
1991 — Centre House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1994 — Gallery "The Sixth Line", Minsk, Belarus
1994 — Centre of Experimental Arts, Vlissingen, Netherlands
1996 — Gallery "IFIAC", Brussels, Belgium
1999 — National Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2004 — National Library, Minsk, Belarus
2006 — Podzemka Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2008 — Gallery "Dobryja mysli", Minsk, Belarus
2008 — "Dach-5", Museum of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2009 — "Dach-9", Minsk, Belarus
2001-2014 — Kunsthaus "Tacheles", Berlin, Germany
2014-2018 — Festival "Fregs of Nature", Berlin, Germany
2014-2018 — Festival "Odyssee", Berlin, Germany
2016-2018 — "Global warning/Global warming", Minsk, Belarus
2019 — "Mythologeme of the millennium", Minsk, Belarus
2021 — "Trans Atlantic Art Message", National Library, Minsk, Belarus
2022 — "Stolen inspiration", Minsk, Belarus - Group Exhibition:1971 — Exhibition of Young Artists, National Museum, Minsk, Belarus
1976 — Republican Exhibition, National Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
1989 — Treasure of the Belarusian Avant-garde, Minsk, Belarus
1990 — The Centre of Contemporary Art Norblin, Warsaw, Poland
1990 — "Cassandra Call", National Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
1992 — "Art Shock", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
1993 — Days of Belarusian Art at the Exhibition Hall of Ukrainian Artists Union, Kyev, Ukraine
1993 — Julia-Nova, Italy
1997 — Herbert Exhibition Centre, Paris, France
1998 — "Pahonia", National Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2002 — Gallery of Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2003 — Klermon-Ferron, France
2008 — Museum of Nonconformism, St-Petersburg, Russia
2008 — "Biennale of Fine Arts", National Library, Minsk, Belarus
2010 — "Belarusian Art Week", the National Art Museum, Minsk, Belarus
2021 — "Labyrinth", Minsk, Belarus
Alexander Rodin's works are at the National Art Museum of Belarus, the Museum of Modern Art in Minsk, Belarus, Hasso-Platter Institute in Potsdam Germany and numerous private collections in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, France, the USA, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia, Belgium and other countries.
NFT
* The main goal of the NFT project is the possibility of creating an Art Platform with a permanent exhibition by Alex Rodin and organizing the DACH festival of experimental art, which has been held in Minsk and Berlin for 20 years. It will be an international platform for free creativity and knowledge.
Welcome!
https://opensea.io/Alex_Rodin
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* The main goal of the NFT project is the possibility of creating an Art Platform with a permanent exhibition by Alex Rodin and organizing the DACH festival of experimental art, which has been held in Minsk and Berlin for 20 years. It will be an international platform for free creativity and knowledge.
Welcome!
https://opensea.io/Alex_Rodin
open with VPN
