Alexander Trifonov

Alexander Trifonov was born in 1946 in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast. Upon graduating from the Mikhail Kalinin College of Design and Applied Arts in Moscow in 1972, the artist moved to Karelia, where he lived and worked in Petrozavodsk and died in 2021.

Trifonov’s manner, choice of subject matter, and technique saw a continuous transformation throughout his creative journey. Whereas the first portraits, landscapes, and still lifes verged on the Moscow Romanticism of the 1970s, the 1980s brought a turn to geometric abstraction. Returning to figurative art in later years, Trifonov, however, treated his characters and objects in a completely different vein. His paintings from that period are pointedly geometric and executed in cool hues. In the early 2000s, the artist embraced digital technology, reflecting his desire to transcend corporeality and painterly sensuality in his creative practice. The world of Alexander Trifonov’s paintings is mysterious and surreal. Created by the artist’s imagination, it allures and mesmerises.