ZAKHAROV g. alexander
Alexander G. Zakharov - euphoria of melancholy
"Thinking is dishonest. Feelings are true. I just want to allow the truth to come out of me, because what is in me is my truth, and it only remains honest and true if I release it unchanged over my arm, over the brush or the scraper in my hand onto the canvas. The figures and landscapes which reach my sheet or canvas through the paint are not these or those people, these or those landscapes or cities, these or those beings, animals or plants, they are the images of the primary idea of these, they are in me and are reborn through my paint. From time to time I take them out of me and bring them to the picture, give them life in pictures. I can do it, because their form is in me. I want to paint these archetypes, I want to paint them in me and out of me - the world as it was once roofed. And this is the only way I can get to myself, to my feeling of this world."
© cited from the talk with Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kufferath von Kendenich, Zurich, October 1999
| 1957 | born in Kiev (UdSSR), lives and works in Münster |
| since 2017 | Cooperation with the gallery FLOX |
| PRIZES | |
| 1997 | Award Winner (1st Prize) Society of illustrators, New York |
| MEMBERSHIP / GRANTS | |
| since 1997 | Membership in Print Club of New York, Member of Youth Department of Artists Union Moskau |
| 1994 | Artist in Residence, Brandywine Workshop Philadelphia |
| EDUCATION/STUDIES/CV | |
| 2005 | Moves to Germany / Münster |
| since 1996 | Cooperation with numerous international galleries e.g. in Paris, New York, Zurich, Brugg etc. |
| since 1990 | Freelance artist |
| 1985 - 1990 | Stage painter at the Ukrainian Theatre Kiev |
| 1980 - 1982 | Studies Academy of Fine Arts Kiev |
| 1975 - 1980 | Studied biology in Moscow |
Exhibitions (Solo and Group)
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTION |
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| 2019 | "Eine Winterreise/ A winter journey": Galerie FLOX, Dresden, Germany |
| 2016 | Solo Gallery FLOX, Kirschau, Germany |
| 2014 | „Erotischer Sinneswandel/Erotic change of mind“: Rudifredlinkegalerie, Münster, Germany |
| 2012 | New Works: Galerie van Almsick, Gronau-Epe, Germany |
| 2011 | New Works: Galerie Palz, Saarlouis, Germany |
| 2009 | Galerie Joy, Zurich Switzerland |
| 2009 | Gallery Figure, Paris/France |
| 2009 | Opera Gallery, Seoul/Korea |
| 2009 | Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, U.S.A. |
| 2008 | Painting & Photography, Ru Arts Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2007 | Paintings and Watercolors, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, U.S.A. |
| 2007 | Reflection of Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTION |
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| 2020 | „PORTFOLIO 20/I“, Gallery FLOX, Dresden, Germany |
| 2014 | International Artists: Rudifredlinkegalerie, Münster, Germany |
| 2012 | Opera Gallery, Singapur |
| 2010 | Opera Gallery, Singapur |