Opening of Alexander Shadrin’s personal exhibition ‘Old Fairy Tales’
All of us have emotional ties with our childhood that last throughout all our lives. That’s why we get so excited, when we recall moments that bring us back those happy days.
The author’s paintings are quite individual and unconventional. It is because the author’s ability to bring out the inner child in him. His works has got something that makes them special and conspicuous – something sparkling full of light that comes from within shaded but with a complex combination of colors. The images are so vivid and real that they easily convey childhood feelings as experienced by the author himself. As a follower of Feshin’s expressive manner Alexander Shadrin modernizes and unifies his vivid images so that we should see them as codes to another reality. In his works people usually surrounding him turn into mythical creatures such as witches, medicine women and hunters. Each work has a lot of meanings and colors of its own, complexity of the composition and certain philosophy behind each image.
Alexander Shadrin’s new personal exhibition called ‘Old Fairy Tales’ serves as a guide to a homely world everyone knows about.
Alexander Shadrin (born 22 January 1968). A member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Republic of Tatarstan. Graduated from the Department of Arts of Izhevsk State University. From 2000 to 2004 studied postgraduate at the Russian Academy of Arts.
Participated in international exhibitions and art-salons such as: ‘Moscow – Saint Petersburg; ‘Russia’, an exhibition of Russian arts; ‘Classic and Contemporary Arts’ all held in Moscow. He also took part in a number of Russian and international projects.
2010 – the 1st place in the “Classical Painting” nomination of the 8th International Contest of Contemporary Arts ‘Russian Art Week’.
2011 – participated in the Festival of Slavonic Arts in Berlin (Germany) where he took the 1st and the 2nd place in the Picture about a Story’ nomination.
2011 – an exhibition in the National Arts Museum in Bucharest (Rumania).
In November 2012 was awarded Feshin Prize of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Alexander Shadrin’s works are in collections of museums in Russia and the Republic of Tatarstan as well as in private collections around the world. Some Alexander Shadrin’s works have been bought as a present to V.V. Putin and for the president's box of Tatarstan president M.S. Shaimiev.
