Alexander Tinei
(1967, Caushani, Moldova)
Lives and works in Budapest
Alexander Tinei is a Moldovan artist, who has worked and lived in Hungary for more than a decade now. The starting point for all of his works is some photo found in the media. After that he places his chosen characters into a new context, making their bodies unique via vein-like, colorful, stigmatic signs. The details painted with almost anatomical precision are contrasted with often roughly made, abstract surfaces. Besides his emblematic oil paintings, he also creates collages, acrylic and aquarelle paintings, graphite works and installations, but besides the canvas he primarily works on paper, and recently he started repainting photographs. The main focus of his art is the relationship between time and the human body; the surroundings and objects rarely play a significant role. On the other hand, time is presented in its permanence, as the bodies removed from their original context, the photos and images, always appear in some kind of a strange, gloomy, dream-like, timeless space.
Education
1988-1991, Chisinau Repin State Collage of fine arts, Moldova
Exhibitions at Erika Deák Gallery
2020 Partly sunny, mostly cloudy
2019 Floral Centrepiece
2017 Soul on fire
2015 The Soul We Once Loaded (with Johan Tahon)
2014 On Paper
2011 Studiovisit (with Bazil Duliskovich)
2009 I Collect All My Tears
2007 No Distracion
2006 Where have you been?
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Partly sunny, mostly cloudy, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Roots, DCS Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Shown by the Roadside, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy
2017 Solo, Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Soul on fire, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015 The soul once we loaded (with Johan Tahon), Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Blue Bird, Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Solo, Gallery Dukan, Paris, France
2013 Why do not you say hello ever again?, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Magyarország
2012 TINEI – SZÜCS, Hussenot Gallery, Paris, (with Attila Szűcs), France
Strange Light, Tajan, Paris (with Attila Szűcs), France
New works, Frissiras Museum, Athen, Greece
2011 Portraits of ambiguity, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA
Studiovisit (with Bazil Dusilkovic), Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010 All about me, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA
2009 I collect all my tears, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007 No distraction, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Where have you been?, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Lost in the Forest, Kultur Kontakt, ArtPoint Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Free Post Cards, K.Petrys Ház Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Spring Fields, Martino Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian Parliament and Lathe, Aorta Gallery, Chisinau, Moldova
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Darkness - Best of, Selected Artists, Berlin, Germany
2019 Arcana, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
High Five! 5 Years, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy
Floral Centerpiece, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Just beneath reality, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 Skin, DSC Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Me, Myself and I. The Portrait In Contemporary European Art, Galerie Artdocks, Bremen, Germany
Trauma-Distress-Ecstasy-Emptiness-Formulas of Pathos 1900-2018, Zapadoceska Galerie (zpc-galerie), Plzen,
Czech Republic
Preparing for Darkness, Vol. 2: Breaking God's Heart, Galerie Selected Artists at Külhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Preparing for Darkness, Vol. 1, Galerie Selected Artists at Külhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017 YIA #11, Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
Disruptive Imagination, Művészetmalom, Szentendre, Hungary
Behold the man, Kunstmusezm Magdeburg, Germany
2016 Metania (with Johan Tahon), Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Violent Unknown Event, Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
The fantasy of representation, Beers Contemporary, London, U.K.
Gute Kunst? Wollen!, Auf AEG, Nurnberg, Germany
The Nude in the XX&XXI Century, S2, London, U.K.
2014 S2 Gallery, London, U.K.
On Paper, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013 On Paper, Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition, Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany
Portrait, Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
2012 Twilight, Modem, Debrecen, Hungary
2011 After the fall, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA
Prague Biennal, Prague, Czech Republic
Human, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen, Denmark
Spinart , Ana Cristea Gallery, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
East Ex East , Brand new Gallery, Milan, Itay
2010 After the Fall, HVCCA, New York, USA
Strichtly painting, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Revolutionary Decadence, Kiscell Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Prague Biennal, Prague, Czech Repiblic
Show Me a Hero, Calvert 22, London, U.K.
2008 The new force of painting, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
2007 Eclectic affinities among European artists, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Visual Immortality , Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland
2006 Art is Always Somewhere Else, Bucharest, Romania
Fresh Ground, Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens, Greece
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Shumen, Bulgaria
2004 Documenta, Regensburg, Germany
2003 The Last European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Aorta in Amisetae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands