Andrey Belle
Andrey Belle is a talented St. Petersburg artist. He took part in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Belle’s paintings are mainly influenced by the works of French modernism. His works are in many private collections and museums.
Andrey Belle is a talented St. Petersburg artist. Born in 1957 in Minsk, Belarus, grew up in Leningrad. In 1993 he graduated from the A.L. Stieglitz Academy of Arts and Industry in St. Petersburg. In 1990 he joined the art group “Mitki”. In addition to working in the group, Andrey did not leave attempts to find his own style in painting.
He took part in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Belle’s paintings are mainly influenced by the works of French modernism. His works are in many private collections and museums, including the St. Petersburg State Museum of History, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow and the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg.
Andrey Belle was awarded the Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for his services in the field of culture and art in 2007.
He took part in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Belle’s paintings are mainly influenced by the works of French modernism. His works are in many private collections and museums, including the St. Petersburg State Museum of History, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow and the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg.
Andrey Belle was awarded the Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for his services in the field of culture and art in 2007.
Solo exhibitions
2008
"Anatomy of Memory", Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (joint creative project of Andrey Makarevich and Andrey Belle)
2006
"Impression of Freedom", The State Museum of the History of the City, St. Petersburg, Russia
2002
Exhibition "Erotic Objects", Nice, France
National Museum, Villefranche sur Maire, France
"Amadeus Gallery", London, England
2001
Private Gallery "Indar Pasricha Fine Arts", London, England
ART MANEGE, Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow, Russia
2000
Gallery "Original gallery", Nice, France
1998
"By Myself alone", Alla Bulyanskaya Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1995
Nostalgia, Palitra Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994
Palitra Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1993
L-Club, Moscow, Russia
1992
Borey Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Main exhibitions
2009
Exhibition "Andrey Belle, photographs...", Pushkin Museum. Moika 12 , Saint Petersburg, Russia
2002
"Leaves. Herbs. Trees", a joint exhibition with the gallery "Zero" of the Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2001
A. Belle, L. Kazbekov, K. Chmutin. GlavUpDK Cultural Center under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Moscow, Russia
2000
"Christmas 2000", Palitra Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Since 2000, he has been working with the ARS LONGA gallery, exhibiting with it at the art manege in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as at the Biennale of Contemporary Art (exhibitions at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow; Central House of Artists, Moscow; Infospatial, Moscow; CSKA Sports Complex, Moscow; Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg- Petersburg
1999
Exhibition "Three B", London, England
1998
"Art-Manege", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow
1997—1999
"Art Salon", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow, Russia
1994
III Biennale of Contemporary Art, Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia
1994, 1995
"Master Class", Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia
1994—2001
"A Narrow Circle of Friends", Palitra Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1992
II Biennale of Contemporary Art, Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists of Russia on Okhta, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Anichkov Bridge Gallery, Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Garderop", Central Exhibition Center "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Mitki in Minsk", Central House of Artists, Minsk, Belarus.
"Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg", Art Center "Sint-Jan", Bruges, Belgium
1991
"Mitki in Moscow", Youth Palace, Moscow, Russia
"Gorod", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Leningrad, Russia
"Gregory gallery", Washington, USA
1990
I Biennale of Contemporary Art, Gavan, Leningrad, Russia
1988
"Petersburg", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia
1989
"Moscow art gallery", Toronto, Canada
1988, 1989
"Contemporary Art of Leningrad", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Leningrad, Russia
2008
"Anatomy of Memory", Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (joint creative project of Andrey Makarevich and Andrey Belle)
2006
"Impression of Freedom", The State Museum of the History of the City, St. Petersburg, Russia
2002
Exhibition "Erotic Objects", Nice, France
National Museum, Villefranche sur Maire, France
"Amadeus Gallery", London, England
2001
Private Gallery "Indar Pasricha Fine Arts", London, England
ART MANEGE, Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow, Russia
2000
Gallery "Original gallery", Nice, France
1998
"By Myself alone", Alla Bulyanskaya Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1995
Nostalgia, Palitra Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994
Palitra Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1993
L-Club, Moscow, Russia
1992
Borey Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Main exhibitions
2009
Exhibition "Andrey Belle, photographs...", Pushkin Museum. Moika 12 , Saint Petersburg, Russia
2002
"Leaves. Herbs. Trees", a joint exhibition with the gallery "Zero" of the Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2001
A. Belle, L. Kazbekov, K. Chmutin. GlavUpDK Cultural Center under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Moscow, Russia
2000
"Christmas 2000", Palitra Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Since 2000, he has been working with the ARS LONGA gallery, exhibiting with it at the art manege in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as at the Biennale of Contemporary Art (exhibitions at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow; Central House of Artists, Moscow; Infospatial, Moscow; CSKA Sports Complex, Moscow; Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg- Petersburg
1999
Exhibition "Three B", London, England
1998
"Art-Manege", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow
1997—1999
"Art Salon", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow, Russia
1994
III Biennale of Contemporary Art, Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia
1994, 1995
"Master Class", Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia
1994—2001
"A Narrow Circle of Friends", Palitra Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1992
II Biennale of Contemporary Art, Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists of Russia on Okhta, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Anichkov Bridge Gallery, Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Garderop", Central Exhibition Center "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Mitki in Minsk", Central House of Artists, Minsk, Belarus.
"Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg", Art Center "Sint-Jan", Bruges, Belgium
1991
"Mitki in Moscow", Youth Palace, Moscow, Russia
"Gorod", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Leningrad, Russia
"Gregory gallery", Washington, USA
1990
I Biennale of Contemporary Art, Gavan, Leningrad, Russia
1988
"Petersburg", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia
1989
"Moscow art gallery", Toronto, Canada
1988, 1989
"Contemporary Art of Leningrad", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Leningrad, Russia
Andrey Belle has a happy worldview: looking at his paintings, one immediately realizes that he loves. At a time when between the artist and the thing is a complex optics of allusions, reflexions, confusing traces (you know that I know that you know…) such directness is unusual, it is even alarming. It seems that he is not a naivist, quite a sophisticated artist, but he paints just a pomegranate fruit, a faceted glass, dried fish, whatever else. He seems to be quite a sophisticated artist, but he rejoices in the findings of his friends, relies on them and does not want to disguise, hide this roll call at all. However, considering Belle’s work in a temporal perspective, you discard the idea of any kind of games: he does everything sincerely. And when he processes the surface of his boards — well, with some tactile warmth. And when he paints his favorite subject motifs. And when he finds fragments of old letters and photographs at flea markets, which he melts into the colorful layer. And even when he brings something from his friends' finds into the image — absolutely openly, with some simple-minded joyful attitude to recognition. Apparently, everything the artist does, first of all, has for him the importance of a friendly message." "I'll call my friends I will set my heart to love…". And where there is a message, there is a need for understanding. Otherwise, why share your own surprise? And Belle retains the ability to be surprised. And the ability to share. It is not without reason that his main collectors are people who are a priori attuned to contact, to the transmission of emotion, to transmission in general — actors and musicians.
This is important — Bella needs an addressee. He can’t release his thing without address, into some airless space. The thing has to get into good hands. To live in a good home. This premise — the concern for the existence of the work affects the form formation. Belle writes frankly interior things — in the sense that they are designed to humanize the interior, to bring it a note of humanity. The artist’s latest series are nudes. They are "insisted" on Art Nouveau aesthetics, on Klimt’s mesmerizingly vicious nudes. This is quite organic — after all, Art Nouveau forced a new look at "the human, too human", as Nietzsche used to say. And the return to the mysteriously carnal, erotic, and alive is quite justified at the end of the century. In an ultra-modern and rather impersonal interior, Belle’s works remind us of the values that have gone out of fashion, or rather, have been displaced from our pragmatic life — love madness, desire, passion. As long as Belle’s elongated, alluring, exquisitely fractured female bodies shimmer mysteriously in the twilight of our homes, all is not lost, even if the stock price falls.
Belle is a kind of "last boy scout" - races on motorcycles, jeeps and snowmobiles, in general, on everything that moves. At the same time on all this willingly drives everyone. Endlessly builds a house, at the same time already inhabited by friends. Catches fish and talks about fish — while gladly sharing the catch. All this Belle does infectiously delicious. Because he knows how to be surprised by everything — speed, nature, catch, the beauty of women. And share everything — speed, catch, the beauty of women, art.
Recently in his paintings appears a symbolic hovering figure in red clothes. This is not a reminiscence of female images of the Pre-Raphaelites, as some may think. This is Belle’s. This is the Muse of Amazement Divided with Friends.
Alexander Borovsky.
This is important — Bella needs an addressee. He can’t release his thing without address, into some airless space. The thing has to get into good hands. To live in a good home. This premise — the concern for the existence of the work affects the form formation. Belle writes frankly interior things — in the sense that they are designed to humanize the interior, to bring it a note of humanity. The artist’s latest series are nudes. They are "insisted" on Art Nouveau aesthetics, on Klimt’s mesmerizingly vicious nudes. This is quite organic — after all, Art Nouveau forced a new look at "the human, too human", as Nietzsche used to say. And the return to the mysteriously carnal, erotic, and alive is quite justified at the end of the century. In an ultra-modern and rather impersonal interior, Belle’s works remind us of the values that have gone out of fashion, or rather, have been displaced from our pragmatic life — love madness, desire, passion. As long as Belle’s elongated, alluring, exquisitely fractured female bodies shimmer mysteriously in the twilight of our homes, all is not lost, even if the stock price falls.
Belle is a kind of "last boy scout" - races on motorcycles, jeeps and snowmobiles, in general, on everything that moves. At the same time on all this willingly drives everyone. Endlessly builds a house, at the same time already inhabited by friends. Catches fish and talks about fish — while gladly sharing the catch. All this Belle does infectiously delicious. Because he knows how to be surprised by everything — speed, nature, catch, the beauty of women. And share everything — speed, catch, the beauty of women, art.
Recently in his paintings appears a symbolic hovering figure in red clothes. This is not a reminiscence of female images of the Pre-Raphaelites, as some may think. This is Belle’s. This is the Muse of Amazement Divided with Friends.
Alexander Borovsky.