About Alexandra da Fonseca
Biography
Alexandra da Fonseca was born in Krasnodar in 1976. She graduated from the Academy of Arts and Culture in Krasnodar, Russia. Right after she was admitted to the city’s « Artistic Circle”. She followed her artistic path as an apprentice of Sergei Vorzhev.
Alexandra is a recognized artist in Russia where she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Krasnodar, Moscow and Saint Petersburg to name some.
She also exposes her works outside of Russia through group exhibitions: In 2000, at the Center for Russian Culture in Berlin (Germany), in 2005 and 2006, at the Russian Embassy in Washington (USA). Since arriving in France in 2009, she has exhibited numerous times solo in Paris and has participated in 12 group exhibitions and trade fairs, mainly in Paris, but also in Calvi, Sarlat, La Garenne Colombes, Montreuil and others. One of her works received a bronze medal in the painting section of ART EN CAPITAL exposition at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2014. Her works found their home in private collections in Russia, United States of America, France and Germany.
Her art is a combination of the expression of the 21st century with the tradition of the classical masters. Mystery of art, celebration of the brush, the vibrant shades, fascinating light participating in the emotions: all this transmits the overwhelming feeling that we experience while glancing at the canvases of this talented artist. She is an artist who places her art between cultures, between Russia and France, between the calm of a dreamlike universe and the reality of an urban space. But also in the heart of art, whether drawing or painting.
