Russian, Born 1964
Born in 1964, in the small Russian town of Penza, Alexey Shleetov attended art school from 1985-1989. He began exhibiting his work throughout Russia and Europe in 1988. Shleetov¹s work records the simple aspects of life with refinement and intelligence.
Bottles, bowls, wine goblets, fruits, flowers, carafes, and even ordinary coffee cups take on more formal properties. As did Jean-Baptiste Chardin (1732-1806), Shleetov transforms the rituals and objects of daily life into timeless masterpieces of observation and nuance, giving them hardness or softness, temperature, and weight.
He accomplishes such realism by ordering the elements of his still life with the rigor of a mathematician, describing them with both respect and understanding. By nature, Alexey is a private man. This characteristic, however, does not interfere with his strong belief in the tradition of being both artist and instructor.
As an instructor, he chooses to spend great amounts of time with his studentsfar beyond that which is required. It is his conviction that through his students, he is constantly learning; therefore, he is continuously evolving as an artist. Gallerie Amsterdam is proud to exhibit the paintings of Alexey Shleetov. |