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Alexey
Smolovik

Russia • Sankt-Peterburg and Leningrad Oblast • born in 1965 • artist

Biography and information

Biography
Alexey Smolovik was born in Volgograd in 1965.
He graduated from the Saratov Art College
them. A.P. Bogolyubov (Department of Painting) with honors.
Since 1989, lives and works in St. Petersburg.
In 1992 - an exhibition in the Russian Museum.
In 1993, participates in the exhibition "St. Petersburg - Paris", the cultural center Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Upon completion, invited by Andre-Marc Deloc-Fourco (grandson of collector S. I. Schukin)
stay in his residence to explore the exhibition and creative life of France.
In 1996, he won the competition of young artists Bernadette Chirac and Sophie Foise, Le Pont Neuf Association, Paris, France.

In 1997 - advanced training at the Institute of Technology and Design.

In the 1990s - acquaintance with B. A. Smirnov-Rusetskiy (V. Kandinsky's comrade-in-arms and N. Roerich's student), and somewhat later - with A. Baturin (line of K. Malevich, V. Sterligov), who
discovered the main ideas of the Russian avant-garde and the foundations of organic culture to Alexei Smolovik, further defining the main vector in his work.

In 1998 he joined the Union of Artists of Russia.

Since 1998, he taught at the Higher College of Design
(painting, composition and color science) and at the art school "On Vasilievsky". He developed the author’s program “Co-creation” on the basis of traditional and modern schools of painting. The works of his students are in the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), in the IACA Museum (New York) and other collections.

From 1998 to 2004, he actively participated in European exhibitions of Russian art through the Herkenning Gallery, the Netherlands, the last of which was held at the Royal Society
artists of Birmingham, England.

In 1999 he joined the international association "Dialogue of Cultures".

The author of the manifesto “Fringe”, which was declared in 1999 at the State Hermitage together with the presentation of works.

In 2000, he received the highest category of pedagogical excellence.

In 2002 he entered the Institute of Religious Studies and Church Arts.

In 2013, Alexey Smolovik was invited to participate in the cross-year program of Russia in the Netherlands, to which a retrospective album is timed
«Alexei Smolovik Edge | The Verge. "

In 2016, the album Origins of the Line, Vanguard on the Neva, was released.
Member of more than 80 exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Winner of numerous diplomas, diplomas and awards.
The works of Alexey Smolovik are in collections of museums and private collections in Russia, the Netherlands, France, the USA, etc.
  • Art forms
    Painting, Graphics, Contemporary art
  • Artistic associations