Artist Alexander Beridze

Alexander Beridze

Country: ·Born in 1975

Alexander Beridze is included in the list of the Best Contemporary Artists of Russia (ARTEEX).

The French call him the "King of Abstraction". His works have been exhibited in America, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Monaco, Russia, France. His works are in the private collections of Ivanka Trump, Joan Collins, Alisher Usmanov. Style trendsetters - Elle, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle - have dedicated their glossy pages to his work, and the editor-in-chief of "Le Figaro" (Bertrand Saint Vincent) even published an article on the front page of the famous French newspaper about the author's work - "the most subtle and intelligent abstraction in the world".

Alexander Beridze is the grandson of the Soviet artist Fyodor Kholenkov, Laureate of the prestigious Italian Sandro Botticelli Prize, has lived in France since 2000. In 2009, he founded the art movement "Free Painters".

Grandfather's lessons, plus classical education, became Alexander's fundamental education. In 2008, Alexander created his first abstract painting. It marked the beginning of the artist's famous "abstract period".

Alexander discovered a completely unexpected and new direction of seemingly long-known abstractionism - a direction called Mental Figurative. He unimaginably combined traditional abstraction with a fantastic geometry of feelings and an incredible mixture of colors, which ultimately makes you not just admire his masterpieces, but think. Think about life, about death, about the secrets and mysteries of our modern world. And, most importantly, to feel, worry and empathize - this is where the most important secret of Alexander Beridze's paintings, still unsolved by anyone, is hidden.

"Abstraction for me is one of the most intellectual directions in painting. In the process of work I study the basics and different ways of creating the desired "picture", which is in my imagination, but which materializes on the canvas in its own, free, and sometimes most unexpected way. An abstract artist is an eternal judge in a pure duel between fantasy and reality! In modern art there is much that is social and problematic, and I want people, looking at my paintings, to immerse themselves in dreams, I strive to give the opportunity to enjoy and see beauty."

Alexander Beridze is included in the list of the Best Contemporary Artists of Russia (ARTEEX).