Alexander Pesterev

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Alexander_Pesterev_Landscape_with_a_Road_2015_oil_on_canvas_48×75_cm

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Alexander Pesterev

Was born in 1958 in Gryazovtsy, located in the Vologda region of Russia. Upon completion of his studies at the prestigious Ivanovo Art College in 1989, he was accepted into the National Union of Russian Artists. Participant of Russian and foreign exhibitions. Lives and works in Totma in Vologda region.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

· "Metaphysics – that’s after the physics", gallery " Tatiana Nikitina’s Art Holding ", St. Petersburg, Russia,

2016

· "Names", Cherepovets art museum, Cherepovets, Russia, 2016

· "Three or four white steps", Cherepovets art museum, Cherepovets, Russia, 2015

· "Names", Vologda state historical and architectural memorial estate, Vologda, Russia, 2015

· "Names", Kirillo-Belozersky historical and architectural and art memorial estate, Museum of Dionisy's

Frescoes, Ferapontovo, Russia, 2014

· "Northern cicadas", Cherepovets art museum, Cherepovets, Russia, 2013

· "Hortus conclusus", art museum, Cherepovets, Russia, 2013

· "Northern cicadas", Red Bridge art gallery, Vologda, Russia, 2013

· "Hortus conclusus", Red Bridge art gallery, Vologda, Russia, 2013

· "Modern Russian artists", gallery TEN43, New York, USA, 2011

· "Galatea's Trace", Art gallery "Red Bridge", Vologda, Russia, 2011

· "Painting, Graphics, Sculpture", Museum of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2010

· "Alexander Pesterev. Painting. Graphics", Research museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Museum

apartment of I.I. Brodsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009

· Exhibitions of painting in Totma Museum Association, Totma, Russia, 1993, 2000, 2008

· "50 ½", Art gallery "Red Bridge", Vologda, Russia, 2008

· "Two Worlds — Two Alexanders", Center of Book and Graphics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2007

· "Favourites", Exhibition hall of the government of the Leningrad region "Smolny", Saint-Petersburg, Russia,

2007

· "Graphite – Chronicles", Art gallery "Red Bridge", Vologda, Russia, 2007

· "Graphite – Chronicles", Art gallery, Kostroma, Russia, 2007

· "Soul Landscapes", Art gallery "Red Bridge", Vologda, Russia, 2003

· "Favourites", Vologda State Historical and Architectural Reserve Museum, Vologda, Russia, 1998

· "Alexander Pesterev. Paintings", Art gallery "Solar Square", Vologda, Russia, 1996

· "Monologue", "Russian House", Vologda, Russia, 1994

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

· "The True Place (Jerusalem)", Exhibition hall of the government of the Leningrad region "Smolny",

Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2010

· "Can It Be the Same Tatiana?..", "Tatiana Nikitina’s Art Holding", Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2008

· "Dialogues", 8th International Biennial of the Modern Art, Central Exhibition hall "Manege", Saint-

Petersburg, Russia, 2007

· "Neznayka’s Last Temptation" (collection of A. Troitsky), Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, 2007

· "Image of the Homeland", 3rd Russian art exhibition of landscape painting, Vologda, Russia, 2006

· "We will bow to great those years...", Regional art exhibition devoted to the 60th anniversary of the

Victory, Vologda, Russia, 2005

· "Russian North", 9th regional art exhibition, Vologda, Russia, 2003

· "Green Noise", Vologda – Ples – Moscow, Russia, 2000

· "Cultural Heroes of the 21 Century", Vologda – Moscow, Russia, 1999–2000

· "Russia", 9th Russian art exhibition, Moscow, Russia, 1999

WORKS ARE IN COLLECTIONS:

· Central Exhibition hall "Manege" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

· The Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

· Art gallery "Barkes & Barkes" (London, Great Britain)

· "Tatiana Nikitina’s Art Holding" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

· Art gallery "Free Arts" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

· Vologda Regional Art Gallery (Vologda, Russia)

· Vologda State Historical and Architectural and Art Reserve Museum (Vologda, Russia)

· Ples State Historical and Architectural and Art Reserve Museum (Ples, Russia)

· Totma Museum Association (Totma, Russia)

· Private collections in Russia (Vologda, Ples, Moscow, St. Petersburg) and abroad (Germany)

Pesterev seeks to impart through the canvases certain initial knowledge about the essence in the river of time, about its life in the row of generations. One can find in Pesterev's brush some analogy to philosophy of Giorgio Morandi’s works. However his imaginative range of subjects is wider and solves wider variety of creative tasks. His still life is not the "quiet life" of things, but always a hint on something bigger, chance to discover the energy of things, or, perhaps, the idea which is written down in space. Real objects shaped at canvases are not obvious, it’s a kind of reflection of the centuries-old memory, projected into nowadays where the actual outline of things dissolves in symbols, signs, roots, of genetic memory.