Treasure, 101 x 91cm, Oil on Canvas, 2009

The work of Alexey Terenin invites the viewer on a spiritual voyage infused with a magical enthrallment. He marries the severity of his architectural lines to a dreamlike poetry, creates a universe of his own, filled with phantasm and mysterious figures. This world of dreamy silence, reminiscent of the work of Balthus, is strangely familiar, as though Terenin has tapped into subconsciousness of a time and place we seem to have met before.