Andrey Belle, 1957 | Abstract / Mixed media painter

Aндрей Белле was born in Minsk, Bielorussia. Since his birth, he lived and studied in Leningrad, now St Petersburg. From 1975-1977, he served in the Soviet Army. In 1977, he went straight from the army into the V. I. Mukhina Leningrad Higher School of Commercial Art.

He began to exhibit his work while still at the institute. Upon graduating and being professionally assigned to the Lot Central Research Institute, he started work as an independent artist - a painter and graphic artist.

From the mid-1980s onwards, he drew closer to musical circles: from 1985-1992, he worked with the Akvarium rock group.

In 1988, he was in charge of the group’s charity concerts for the Soviet Cultural Foundation in order to erect a monument to Peter Tchaikovsky.

From 1988-1992, he exhibited and worked with the Mitki group. Once perestroika had begun, he was much exhibited both in Russia and worldwide - in the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Holland and France, promoting Russian art, which was not too popular during the post-perestroika period in Europe and America.

His friendship with stage artistes and musicians, particularly with Andrei Makarevich, prompted him to take part in many musical projects as an artist, resulting in designs for Makarevich’s albums:

• The Songs I Love (1996);
• The Cardboard Wings of Love (1996);
• Megamix (1996);
• The Woman’s Album (1998);
• Etcetera (2002);
• The Thin Scar on My Favourite Bum (2003);
• The Songs of Bulat Okudzhava (2005);
• Maxim Leonidov’s album Let’s Have a Smoke (2001);
• Jean Tatlian’s two albums Night Coach and Russian Blues (2001), and so on.

His participation in charity auctions, e. g. Sotheby’s Cow Parade in 2005 and the Milost Foundation’s auction in St Petersburg in 2007, enabled considerable amounts of money to be collected for sick children.

In 2001, the artist was awarded🎨 the title of “Master” during the Master Class project directed by Mikhail Piotrovsky.

In 2007, the President of the Russian Federation decreed that Andrei Belle should be decorated with the Order for Services to the Fatherland, 2nd class.

Andrey Belle / Андрей Белле è nato nella città di Minsk, Bielorussia.

Studia all'Accademia d’arte di San Pietroburgo, città in cui cresce e in cui - dalla metà degli anni Ottanta - partecipa attivamente alla vita artistica. Nel 1990 si unisce per qualche anno al gruppo dei Mit`ki, creato nel 1984 da pittori, poeti, cantanti e scrittori con solidarietà di intenti: fare del bene con creatività e vis comica.

Belle produce quadri figurativi, pieni di emozione, bellezza, sensualità e raffinatezza.

Non solo è un valido pittore, ma anche decoratore, la sua maestria è simile a intricato lavoro di un gioielliere virtuosistico.

Utilizza tecniche miste e tecniche di collage.

Le sue opere hanno varcato i confini locali dello spazio culturale russa molto tempo fa, lavora attivamente in Russia e all'estero.

Le opere dell'artista - presenti nelle collezioni private di prestigiosi musei a San Pietroburgo ed a Mosca - sono state esposte, oltre che in Russia, negli States, in Canada e a Londra, Nizza, Bruges e Vilnius.