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Ruben Monakhov

Male

Born in: Leningrad (Russian Federation) on 12 December 1970.

Currently living: St Petersburg (Russian Federation).

Activity: Painting;

Graduate from Serov (at present time Roerikh) Art School  in 1991.
Russian Federation Artists Union member since 1999 (SPb section).
At present time lives in St. Petersburg (Russia).

Artist Statement:

When I was a teenager, I thought that the XXI century — is an unachievable distant future. And now this future already came. Many things that seemed as science fiction before, now — the prosaic reality.
But did it make people more happy?

Modern man is so fed up of visual information, that he lost the ability to wonder. Craft of visual simulation has reached such a degree of perfection that absolutely everything become possible.
But did it make people began to feel more acutely?

A XXI century resident is racing through his life with escape velocity. The visual aspect of the world rushes in front of him like a continuous tape, and his eyes have time to grab only the most glaring and outstanding, most new and unusual. But even this he does not manage to feel in a full range. Because new information is no longer waiting — it's climbing into his eyes and pushed by the next, like the passengers in the Tokyo subway.

My painting — is a story about the beauty of light and color in the stopped moment of time. No conceptual nonsense or ultra-supernova "ideas".
Simply painting. Oil on canvas. In the same way as it was done by many generations of artists.
In the same way, but still a little differently. Subjectively.
Because painting — is a very personal experience.



Public collections:
«Erarta», Contemporary Art Museum , St. Petersburg, Russia

Private collections:
Russia, USA, Belgium, Germany, UK, Finland

Galleries:
Colourblind Gallery, Koln, Germany
Selskaya Zhizn' Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
100 SVOIH, St. Petersburg, Russia
Galeria de Arte Gaudi, Madrid, Spain

Solo exhibitions:
2010: «I See it This Way!». One man show, «100 Svoih», St. Petersburg;

2009: «December's Scopophilia», «Zero gallery», St. Petersburg;
«May's Scopophilia», «Selskaya Zhizn'» gallery, St. Petersburg;

2008: «Raum und Decoration», Colourblind Gallery, Koln;

2007: «Cities. Etching.», Sholokhov Library, St. Petersburg;

2006: «No Names», «Griboyedov» club, St. Petersburg;

2005: «Endless Journey», S.P.A.S. gallery, St. Petersburgг;

2003: «Twelve», «Selskaya Zhizn'» gallery, St. Petersburg;

1993: One man show, DK «Izhorets»,. Kolpino;
One man show, Dostoyevsky museum, St. Petersburg.

Art fairs
2009: KunStart'09 (presented by Galeria de Arte Gaudi (Madrid)), Bolzano;

2008: Lineart'08 (presented by Galeria de Arte Gaudi (Madrid)),
Flanders Expo, Ghent;

Selected group exhibitions:
2010: IV Graphic show «Prints lover», CEH «Manezh»,St. Petersburg;
«Art-Craft» Studio «Spring Exacerbation»,
Minor hall CEH «Manezh»,St. Petersburg;
International exhibition-competition «Flights in Dreams and in Reality»
State art gallery «Na Kashirke», Moscow;
«St. Petersburg 2009»,  CEH «Manezh»,St. Petersburg;

2009: ARtMATURE, bulthaup design gallery, St. Petersburg;

2008: Christmas Exhibition, Galeria de Arte Gaudi, Madrid;
«St. Petersburg 2007», CEH «Manezh»,St. Petersburg;

2007: The Second groupe exhibition «Random Crosslinking»
«Selskaya Zhizn'» gallery, St. Petersburg;
«170 Anniversary of Russian Railroad», Railroad museum, St. Petersburg;
«About the Railroad», Books & Graphics Centre, St. Petersburg;
«Red Circle of Constructivism», Jam Hall, St. Petersburg;

2006: Group exhibition «Random Cross-linking»,
«Selskaya Zhizn'» gallery, St. Petersburg;

2004: «Hope» exhibition of young artists , SPbRFAU, St. Petersburg;
Spring exhibition of young SPb artists, CEH «Manezh»,St. Petersburg;

2003: «Art-Craft», Alice gallery, Bordeaux;
«Art-Craft», municipality of Bordeaux.
 

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