Alexandr Rodin

Alexandr Rodin (in the middle) signing a print on canvas of one of his works in Kunsthaus Tacheles in 2011

Alexandr Rodin was born on 15 May 1947 in Baranovichi, a city in the Brest Region of western Belarus. He moved to Minsk in 1950. From 1960 until 1965 he studied at the 'School of Arts nr. 1' in the same city; in 1966 he started a study at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, which he finished in 1971. His first exhibition was in 1971 at the Exhibition of Young Artists at the Belarusian National Arts Museum. Since 1971, he has held over 35 exhibitions, in Belarus, Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany.[2] He currently lives and works in Berlin, because (as he describes it himself in an interview with website n-europe.eu) 'Berlin is a place interested in art. [...] I am an artist and exhibitions are my life. And when I suggest a concept of an exhibition or an event and see that it fascinates Germans – why not to organize it there? Why not to hold an exhibition in Berlin when it acknowledges my creativity?'.[3]

Alexander Rodin's paintings are quite unexpected for Belarusian art with its ideological taboos and conventional norms.[1] Art critic Larysa Mikhnevich describes him as 'the representative of neo-avart-garde and of the "good old" painting: anectdotic and figurative'.[2] His works are often large in size (up to over 6 metres in length and 2 metres in height, albeit spread out over several canvases), and represent surreal scenes in Rodin's mental universe. Rodin's paintings can always be interpreted in several ways. Alexander Rodin wurde 1863 in Belarus geboren. Nach seinem Schulabschluss studierte er bis 1871 mit Erfolg an der Kunstakademie in Minsk. Viele seiner Werke erinnern in ihrer Struktur an eigenartige Gobelins. Es sind Visionen und Zukunftsmotive in Öl- und Acrylfarben, Träume und Traumwelten des Künstlers, fremd und doch so vertraut. Ausgewählte Ausstellungen: 1871 Minsk, exhibition of young people 1873 Moskau, All-Union exhibition 1874 Minsk, republican exhibition 1988 Minsk, Einzelausstellung 1990 Warschau, exhibition centre of the Modern Art 1992 Darmstadt 1993 Kiew (Ukraine) 1993 Giulia Nova (Italien) 1994 Flissingen (Niederlande), Einzelausstellung 1995 Moskau, Einzelausstellung 1995 Ris-Oranglis (Frankreich) 1996 Paris, -The Belarusian Cultural Days in France- 1997 Granada (Spanien) 1998 Brüssel, Einzelausstellung 1998 Minsk 1999 Münster 2000 Hannover, The World-Wide Exhibition

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  Several of Rodin's works
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  A tourist viewing Rodin's works in Tacheles
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  A painting characteristic for Rodin's style
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  One of Rodin's characteristic multi-canvas works