Aleksandra De Pan

Aleksandra de Pan is a painter of Russian origin, born in Moscow, who now lives in Florence, where she recognizes in the Renaissance heritage a sense of profound affinity with her own artistic feeling and action. Instinctive, intuitive and gestural, Aleksandra’s creative streak is included in a mature style where elements of surrealism and expressionism of Central European culture converge. The result is a personal and dynamic painting, classic and conceptual at the same time, like a flow of images and feelings that flows from an intimate penetration of reality.

The passion for art was born in her as a child, when she discovered Picasso and cubism at an early age, but above all surrealism, which is revealed in that psychic automatism through which, as Breton teaches, one aims to externalise, through the arts, words and images in total freedom, as a direct expression of the unconscious. Aleksandra’s artistic journey includes studies at the National Institute of Design in Moscow, where she acquired the basic knowledge of academic drawing and painting.

If this choice for Aleksandra de Pan is an awareness of her own artistic potential, it is subsequently with the move to Italy – when she comes into direct contact with the rich artistic, historical, cultural and natural heritage – that she consolidates her own style: a intense, made of glances in mid-air, burning flames, surreal backgrounds with the colors of the sky and the sea, floating figures, closed mouths emerging in the void of eyeless faces.​

A fascinating microcosm, seductive, with strong and at the same time gentle colours, with subjects wrapped in a dreamlike atmosphere, reminiscent of the soft colors of the Russian expressionist painter Marc Chagall and the magical realism theorized by the German art critic Franz Roh. Aleksandra de Pan is a member of the International Association of Art (IAA), official partner of UNESCO and the Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE) in Italy.