Exhibition of Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexei Nikolaevich Sukhovetsky

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of works by People’s Artist of the Russian Federation and Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexei Nikolaevich Sukhovetsky. In the exposition, which occupies the front suite of the Academy’s exhibition halls, more than 100 paintings and graphics of recent years most fully reveal the thematic diversity of the master’s work.

Aleksey Nikolaevich is a born painter, he can be likened to an alchemist who combines rare color compositions… The author’s works are characterized by inner concentration and strict compositional accuracy. Collected together, his canvases delight and surprise with an abundance of color scores, but the magic of their impact lies in exclusively single color harmonies.

According to the warehouse of talent, Sukhovetsky is a symphonist, his paintings are filled with a special color sound, which resonates in the soul of the viewer like a musical chord. He works in a range from oratorio-panels to chamber landscape and still life cycles. At the same time, the painting performed by the master sounds on the sly, excluding excessive tonal contrasts, and the form materializes according to the laws of color relief, when each colorful spectrum is associated with a specific spatial depth according to the laws of warmth and coldness and complementarity of color relationships, difficult and at the same time accurately chosen from endless nuances. natural palette.

Sukhovetsky equally appreciates both the first nature - nature, and the second - previous art. The impeccable artistic taste inherent in him was brought up by the culture of the 18th century, the Empire, the quests of the Silver Age, the European keepers of the classic tradition from Hubert Robert to Paul Cezanne, a tradition enriched by the Russian experiences of Nikolai Krymov, Pyotr Konchalovsky, the formal quests of Robert Falk. As an absolutely modern master, he sees continuity not in reprint appearances, but in style-forming essences, which allows him to maintain the line of the classical worldview.

Aleksey Nikolaevich is a truly observant "Russian traveler", in his non-superficial touristic experiences he is related to Nikolai Karamzin and Pavel Muratov. In foreign travels, he subtly feels cultural and typological variability, inheriting from Alexander Ivanov a branch of a lemon tree, from Sylvester Shchedrin - vines painted in the light, and together with these signs of recognition, he is built into the Russian myth of "dolce vita". This does not prevent him from writing the dullness of Normandy or minimalist-art-house Scandinavian plots with contrasting pleasure.

Returning to his homeland, he relocates from Murmansk to Kandalaksha, plein-air transit through Vyatka, Kostroma gets to Khakassia, lingering in the Pskov estate Pushkin "shelters of inspiration". Confirming the "worldwide responsiveness of the Russian soul", the artist, above all, loves Moscow in its bizarrely paradoxical guises. Occasionally referring to the Moscow ancient Russian heritage, he prefers to write architectural empire-style motifs, modern, and does not avoid high-tech eccentricities masked by artificial light interference.

Sukhovetsky is a Muscovite not only by origin and passion for the capital’s views and panoramas. He is a worthy adherent of the “Moscow school of painting”, the school of living feeling, the school of nature, the school that honors the superiority of the coloristic form, the school that passionately allows only significant masters, to whom Alexei Nikolayevich belongs, to contribute their intonation-mite to the symphonic consonance of the creative Moscow tradition.

The material was prepared on the basis of an article by Sergei Gavrilyachenko.

Sukhovetsky Alexey Nikolaevich was born in 1953 in Moscow. He received a classical art education, graduating from the Moscow Art School at the Moscow State Art Institute (1971); and then the workshop of Professor V. G. Tsyplakov at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov (1978). Since 1994 he has been teaching at the Moscow State Art Institute, since 2010 he has been a professor at the Department of Painting and Composition, since 2012 he has been the head of a personal workshop of easel painting. He is the secretary of the VTOO "Union of Artists of Russia" (1996) and a member of the board of the Moscow Union of Artists. He was awarded a number of prestigious prizes and awards, including: the Moscow Prize in the field of literature and art (2009), the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (2018), etc. Works are presented in state museums in Russia and foreign countries.