Russian artist jeweler Alexey Semanin

Russian artist jeweler Alexey Semanin
Born in 1975, Alexey Semanin graduated from the Suzdal Art and Restoration School, and worked at the Ulyanovsk Art Museum as a restorer. He spent several years in Stockholm, working as a designer, but not forgetting the jewelry art. Then he settled in Moscow.
Alexey, as a professional restorer, owns both old-fashioned and modern technologies. He is able to work with the most diverse materials – metal, stones, wood, including painting, gold leaf, and plastic. With an ingenious mixture of various materials and techniques, he creates unprecedented complex textures and color effects, and with their help, archetypical images filled with philosophical content. Main motifs – Angels, birds, women, and animals. Strange archaic, but not ethnic, things that must not only be worn, but also examined, thought about them, endow them with meanings, and associate memories with them. In short, the genre of his works – Amulets.

According to the young artist, the stones have mystic power. He never works in just one manner, and tries to bring both classic and avant-garde into the product.

“A woman should not be modest. The decoration must declare itself, create a mood. Naturally, I’m talking about solemn occasions. Gold is always in fashion, especially in Russia, this is apparently due to the eternal indifference of Russians to this metal.”
However, Alexey himself does not wear rings and rarely creates something for men. He says that it is much more interesting and more pleasant to decorate beautiful ladies.

The works of Alexei Semanin were marked by the jury of the prestigious international exhibitions of jewellery art in Russia and abroad.

Russian artist jeweler Alexey Semanin

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magazine Platinum 2007