"Liechtenstein meets Tatarstan / Liechtenstein visiting Tatarstan" Alex Doll "Liechtenstein. Flowers"

On August 23, 2019 at 16.00 in the Gallery of Modern Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan, Karl Marx Street, 57), during the visit of the Liechtenstein cultural mission to Tatarstan, artist Alex Doll will present the exhibition project “Liechtenstein. Flowers ”and will introduce you to the visual culture of the European Principality, celebrating its 300th anniversary in 2019.

Alex Doll was born in 1990 in Orenburg. In childhood, he studied iconography in an Orthodox monastery, studied painting at an art school. He completed a practice in the field of painting and design with A. D. Alexandrov and worked in his workshop "Alexandrov Design House" in Moscow. He improved his skills at the School of Art in Bern in the drawing department. Since 2013 - a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, in 2014 he was elected an Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. Lives and works in Bern and Moscow.

The exhibition "Flowers of Liechtenstein" consists of a series of paintings, in which unusual inflorescences, like an orchestra, fill with beauty the space around them. Ornamentality, harmony and tranquility of works attract the viewer, allowing him to enjoy the fragile idyll of the world. Flowers of Alex Dolly smoothly "flow" from colorful canvases into the world of things and transform familiar objects. In this case, the author deliberately goes for the reproduction of a floral image. At the exhibition, you can see art objects painted by the author: a model of a traditional chalet house provided by the Switzerland in Miniature Museum and Exhibition Complex (Ticino), as well as a video performance in the form of a flower ballet dance from the moment it appeared until withers performed by ballet dancer of Berlin Alexander Abdukarimov and duet Open Opera project Maria Gridneva and Vitaliy Makarenko.

The special guest of the vernissage will be the director of the National Museum of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Professor Dr. Rainer Vollkommer, who will conduct a virtual tour of the National Museum of Liechtenstein and the presentation of the catalog of the exhibition “1719-2019. 300 years of the Principality of Liechtenstein. "

The exhibition runs until September 13, 2019.

Artist Alex DOLL

Alex Doll was born in 1990 in Orenburg. He showed a penchant for painting already in early childhood - he was engaged in icon painting in an Orthodox monastery. He studied at the city art school, then passed the practice in the field of painting and design in Moscow (workshop of A. D. Alexandrov "Alexandrov Design House"). He continued his training in painting at the Academy of Arts in Bern in the drawing department. Lives and works in Bern and Moscow.

Since 2013 - Member of the Union of Artists of Russia. In March 2014, he was elected Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.

In June 2014 he was awarded the highest order of the Russian Academy of Arts - "For the service of art." Has the badge of Rossotrudnichestvo "For friendship and cooperation."

Laureate of the contest "Avant-garde painting" of the Kazakhstan Art Week (Astana, 2010), laureate of the VIII Interethnic Competition of Young Artists of the X International Festival of Fine Arts "Moscow - the City of the World" (Moscow, 2012).

Alex Doll is a co-author of the Liechtenstein postage stamp dedicated to the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. The presentation of the postage stamp was held on November 11, 2013 in Vaduz.

In June 2014, the Liechtenstein Philatelic Service issued a special block of 10 postage stamps depicting paintings by Alex Doll from the series “Following the footsteps of A. V. Suvorov in Switzerland”.

As part of the World Expo 2015 Exhibition in Milan in October 2015, A. Dolle’s performance was held in the pavilion of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, dedicated to the Italian and Swiss campaign of the Russian army under the command of A.V. Suvorov in 1799.

April 20, 2018, at the invitation of the Mayor of Rostock R. Metling, Alex Doll exhibition “Floral Greetings from Russia. Flowers Dedication ”opened in the Rostock Art Gallery as a Russian gift for the 800th anniversary of the Hanseatic city.

Alex Doll’s works are presented in museum collections and private collections in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.

Collective exhibitions:

• Russian Art Week (Moscow, 2009)
• International contest “Music in colors” (Moscow, 2010)
• St. Petersburg Art Week (St. Petersburg, 2010)
• Living House (Geneva, 2010)
• The Russian Look (Campione, Italy, 2010)
• “White Nights of St. Petersburg” (Melide, Switzerland, 2011)
• “Beyeler Collection” in the Palazzo Bembo (Venice, 2012)
• “100 paintings by artists of the Orenburg region” (Orenburg, 2013)
• "Spring Exhibition" (Orenburg, 2013)
• “Kontrovers. Art Stories 4 ”at Clariant (Basel, 2013)
• “Suworow. Russia. Switzerland ”(Payern, 2014)
• “In the center of life” in the gallery of Nadi Brykina (Zurich, 2014)
• Montreux Art Gallery (Montreux, 2014)
• Duet at the Beyeler Colection Gallery (Pratteln, 2014)
• Winter Olympic Games (Berne, Vaduz and Basel, 2014
• Art Dialogue (Biel, 2014)
• “Moscow and Muscovites in the art of the XX-XXI centuries. (Moscow Museum, 2016)

Personal exhibitions: