Like an explorer, Alexei Lantsev travels the world in search of a sensitive experience, as close as possible to reality and its manifestations. Commonly called escape, this experience is akin to a quest, a pilgrimage that leads the artist to cross the borders of different countries. Beyond ordinary travel impressions, his work foreshadows the response to an essential and existential need for mankind: to be free. Alexei Lantsev thus offers a definition of a world that borders on an ideal, a world of travel and influences.
It is by means of large monochrome zones that the artist expresses an iconography, willingly making the analogy with a window capturing with frankness and precision the minute variations in light during the day.
Alexei Lantsev's painting definitely embodies a tribute to the difference and the altruism of Art: the artist courageously inserts himself into the world and its vagaries, even in its darkest periods.
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