Alexander Tinei (born in 1967 in Caushani, Moldova) lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at Chisinau Repin State Collage of fine arts, Moldova between 1988- 1991. Alexander Tinei's art is that of an interested painter concerned with his subjects. A true figurehead of his movement "New Figurative Painting", he has established himself in Europe as a painter with a rich technique. Until 2013 his work is characterized by a dark atmosphere, where oil on canvas is combined with collages to deconstruct his characters and landscapes.
Today when color emerges, the disconcerting energy of Tinei's works remains untouched. His popular sources of inspiration: newspapers, magazines, photographs are mixed with his own melancholic memories, his friendships, and what he sees. An adorer of Lucas Cranach's Mannerist painting, Tinei works to perpetuate the interest of his elders in the atmosphere that a body can suggest, the aura of a person on its environment.
The most recent works are particularly interested in the boundary between the internet and privacy, the way in which images are treated by their frames very differently. In each of the works, the bodies fade, become morcelled, to the point where the individual lives only as a spectre or disembodied image of himself. Only faces remain visible, bluish veins that run through his work.
Through this process of social study, of deconstruction of the body, Tinei dives back into his own childhood under the Soviet era where the individual in the mass disappears and where fiction and its discourse intrude into reality. Solo exhibitions were staged at Erika Deak Galeria Budapest and Dukan Gallery Paris. Besides, his works were included in group shows at Budapest Gallery, Hungarian National Gallery and DSC Gallery Prague.
