Ales Shaternik, renowned Belarusan sculptor and artist, was born in 1940. He graduated from Penza Art College in 1964 and Belarusan Theatre and Art Institute in 1967. He studied under the guidance of such well known sculptors as I.Glebau, V.Gusev, G.Muramtsau, and other masters.
Ales works in decorative and monumental sculpture as well as other media. He started exhibiting his works in the early sixties of the last century. Since then his sculptures appeared in the collections of literally every major museum in Belarus, and some other major museums in different countries. Ales sculptures can be seen on the streets of Belarusan cities including its capital Minsk.
In the early nineties Ales started painting in oil. Famous Russian art critic and art collector, organizer of CASE Museum of Russian Contemporary Art, Alexander Glezer qualified Ales’s style as neo-impressionism. During this short period Ales created a lot of beautiful paintings of Eastern European landscapes and a set of some gorgeous paintings of Venice. Religious themes are also present in some of his paintings.
Ales's works can be seen exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery (The National Museum of Russian Fine Art) in Moscow, the White House in Washington, DC, the Rutgers University Zimmerly Art Museum in New Jersey, the CASE Museum of Russian Contemporary Art in Jersey City, the International Stella Gallery in Paris, France, as well as a number of other Belarusian museums. His works can also be found in number of private collections in the USA, Russia, Italy, Israel, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Belarus and other countries.
In 2005 Ales together with his friend famous Belarusan artist Alexei Marachkin, created well known Belarusan Freedom Bell, a bronze bell, which was temporarily confiscated by the dictator’s regime during the so-called Belarusan revolution in the spring of 2006.
Ales is a member of the Belarusan Artist Union and artists’ group “Pogonia”
