Alexis Gorodine, French Neo Expressionist Mixed Media Impasto Dancing Painting Alexis Gorodine, 2010

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Alexis Gorodine (French,American, born 1954). A mixed media impasto painting on board Figural work produced in the artist's distinct cave … Read more Alexis Gorodine (French,American, born 1954). A mixed media impasto painting on board Figural work produced in the artist's distinct cave painting inspired Neo Expressionist style depicting dancing nude figures on a red ground. Hand signed at bottom. Dimensions: 16.25 X 22.5 X 1 in. Sight measures 13.25" x 19.5". Alexis GORODINE was born in 1954. Trained as an engineer in public works, he has devoted himself to painting since 1972. Born in 1954 in Malicorne, France. He studied at the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris and graduated 1969. He has had more than a hundred exhibitions and numerous works in the collections of several museums in France, and in the entire world. In his subtle luminous work he transforms ordinary and recognizable iconography into evocative forms and mysterious symbols in his prints, paintings, and collages. Alexis’ work is deceptively simple. His subjects exist as basic outlines and evoke an almost “cave painting” quality. Classically-Inspired Illustrative artist. A contemporary artist known for his modernist abstract paintings and prints that often incorporate elements of calligraphy and symbolism. His work is characterized by a meditative quality and a deep exploration of texture and color. Gorodine's artistic journey has been marked by a continuous evolution, with his style reflecting a blend of Eastern and Western influences He lives and works in Paris after many trips around the world Public Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela National Gallery of Art, Caracas, Venezuela Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Modern Art – Bogota, Colombia Brooklyn Museum, New York Philip Morris Collection, New York Museum of Modern Art, Paris Fond National d’Art Contemporain Bibliothèque National, Paris, France Between 1970 and 1975 he studied at the Atelier d'Urbanisme, Martinique, Studio (engaving) Louis Calvaert-Brun, Paris and the Atelier Sauve-qui-peut, Paris. From 1977 to 1982, Gorodine worked and travelled in Africa, USA and South America. Between 1982 and 1991 he lived and worked in New York. In 1992 he returned to his native France and settled in Paris where he has remained to date. The inspiration for Alexis Gorodine's paintings and etchings comes from all things organic, whether it be ancient fossils and petrified forms or living organisms as found in fossils, shells, lizards and shells, snails and mollusks and and earth and the remains of culture by way of history, language and art. Characters are to be seen, cryptograms of a past advanced culture. The creatures appear often, as if they where coming from our machine world. A shellfish can become an imaginary submarine. In addition the pictures with their porous and scratched surfaces remind us of the French Decollagistes and of big-city wall graffiti. This is why Matisse, when he had a course at Montparnasse, told his students to paint the visible from “what they did not see”. The singular journey of the artist of fine sensitivity. Select Expositions Galerie des Bastions, Genève Hôtel de Rothschild, Paris Galerie Capazza, Nançay Galerie Patrick Gaultier, Quimper Galerie BMB, Amsterdam Foire de Zurich, Suisse Temple de Chauray, France Hof ten Doeyer, Zwalm, Belgique Galerie Asumaro, Tokyo Musée de Vendôme, Vendôme Temple de Chauray, Centre d’art contemporain Galerie Nobel, Oslo, Norvège Atelier Vanmeenen, Harelbeke, Belgique Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris Galerie Dessers, Hasselt, Belgique Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, USA Atelier Vanmeenen, ArTendens, Beffroi, Bruges, Collections Publiques Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caracas, Venezuela Sala Mendoza, Caracas Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas Banco Mercantil, Caracas Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas Musée d’Art Moderne, Bogota, Colombie Musée de la Tertulia, Cali, Colombie Musée Omar Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombie Brooklyn Museum, NewYork Phillip Morris Collection, New York Metro North, New York Exxon Collection, USA Mobil Collection, USA Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Musée d’Annecy, France Artothèques de Caen, Annecy, Nantes, Expositions collectives, musées, foires, salons: Salon de Vitry, Salon de Mai, Biennale du Dessin, Caracas, Art Basel, Art Frankfort, Biennale de gravure de Porto-Rico, Art Miami, Art Multiples, Düsseldorf, Foire de Zürich, Espace Pierre Cardin, Galerie Capazza, Paris, Park Slope Gallery, New York, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques See less