ALEXANDER VOROBYEV BIOGRAPHY

ALEXANDER VOROBYEV
Member of the Royal Watercolour Society

Russian artist Alexander Vorobyev was born in Weimar, Germany, in 1952 where his father was stationed as an officer in the Soviet Army, has spent most of his early life in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, one of the former Soviet Union Republics.
There he studied and graduated from art school and began his career as a graphic designer. Four of his poster designs were bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum for its permanent collection in London in 1991.
Meanwhile his paintings and drawings have developed and been bought by collectors in Moscow, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
Since 1994 he lives and works as a freelance artist in London.
Elected Member of Royal Watercolour Society in 2004.

Work in Public Collections
Watercolour in British Museum.
Four posters in Victoria and Albert museum permanent collection in London.

Comments
'Alexander Vorobyev's work may be Russian, but it is also European. His drawings and paintings appeal to the eye, but their content is abstract and surreal. The lines are delicate, the colours startle with their lightness and chic but the images when you look more closely at them are of snails and foetuses, crosses and heads, limbs floating in space with orbiting postage stamps and the lowered head of a charging rhino. Life struggles, the wars and the battles for survival are nothing more than impromptu ballets against the unravelling folds of time'

from John Elsom, London critic. 

'BEYOND THE FAR BEYOND'
His thinking is cosmic. Because of the purity and power of his reactions to the world around him, because of the intense inwardness of his vision, Alexander Vorobyev tries to break through to such worlds, which only can be seen at the beginning of the XXI century, the kind of new images to which Kandinskiy, Filonov, Dali, Miro and Ernst all aspired to. By comparing the name of this artist to the greatest masters of our century I am not being misled by ordinary wishes of a fan to canonise his name among the saints of the abstract art and surrealism. I only want to express, as clearly as possible, the irrational nature of his art, which combines as organic whole these two lines of developmen time'

- from William Mayland, Moscow critic.