Biography

" I chose to express my thoughts and feelings through figurative painting.
" This art is for me the best way to communicate in a universal way, moreover I have no natural ability to dance or music ...

" My Russian and Spanish origins certainly contributed to my way of feeling. But it's in the balance of French culture that my vision of the world has definitely been formed.

" In my view, art must reveal the invisible bonds that give meaning, a deeper unity, to our reality. But if the impact of art can be strong, relevant and intelligent, or even disturbing, it is always by the use of beauty that it is characterized.

" For example, turning to what I consider to be elegant, the harmony of opposites, fixed and mobile, clear and dark, colorful and unified, feminine and masculine.

" My influences come from all times and all cultures as long as I find poetry in a work; this work becomes timeless.
" However, I have a particular affinity for Italian Mannerism, Spanish Baroque and Chinese Dragons. I also have a strong aversion to strictly realistic photographic painting, or trendy currents such as those in large formats and bright colors for example.

" For this I seek by all means possible to escape the vulgarity or the easy effect.
I think I'm the fruit of all sorts of European influences in the very broad sense; Latin, Batavian, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and Slavic."

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Alexandre Barberà-Ivanoff is of Russian origin by his mother and Spanish by his father, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge. 

He studied painting from 1985 with painters Christian Welter, then Gérard Di-Maccio and Jean Bertholle. He was a copyist at the Louvre Museum, before serving in national service as an Army Painter. 

In 2001, he painted frescoes in the palace of King Mohammed VI in Marrakech (Morocco). 

From 2005 to 2007, many of his paintings were exhibited in Saint-Malo, at the Hôtel d'Asfeld, at the Fort National, as well as at the casinos of Saint-Malo and Dinard. 

On September 9, 2005, Alexandre Barberà-Ivanoff made public his Manifesto on artistic essentialism. 

His main works were exhibited in March 2008 at the "Maison Consulaire" in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, and in June 2010 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. 

In the spring of 2015, Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff took part in Italy, with four other European painters, in the creation of 25 paintings which are on permanent display in the city center of Cosenza. These 2 × 3 m works represent the different periods of the city's history. 

Alexandre Barberà-Ivanoff is the official expert on the work of his grandfather Serge Ivanoff.

The artist at work