Dominov Rashid Raufovich
Rashid Raufovich Dominov (born December 12, 1946) is a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and theatre artist. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art. Laureate of the Republican Kustodiev Prize. His works are held in the collections of the State Hermitage, the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of Art History of Georgia (Tbilisi), the Astrakhan Art Gallery named after B.M. Kustodiev, the Altai Museum of Fine Arts (Barnaul), the Volgograd Museum of Art, the Vologda Art Gallery, the State Museum of Art of Tatarstan (Kazan), the Tomsk Art Museum, the Republican Art Museum of Karelia, and others.
Works in collections
His works are held in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, art galleries and museums in Astrakhan, Barnaul, Vologda, Voronezh, Krasnoyarsk, Sevastopol, Tomsk, Khabarovsk, Tbilisi, and private collections in Russia, the USA, Germany, Portugal, and Finland.
Exhibitions and auctions
1980 – Solo exhibition, Leningrad; 1983 – Republican Autumn Exhibition, Chisinau, Moldova; 1983 – Contemporary Soviet Fine Art, Mexico City, Mexico; 1983 – Sport in Fine Art, Moscow; 1983 – Artist-Designer, Design Center, Moscow; 1990 – Group exhibition of 26 Moscow and Leningrad artists, Leningrad; 1992 – 1st exhibition of the 'STANBET' gallery, Exhibition and Auction Hall of the International Cultural Foundation, Moscow.
Author about himself
...Today I am painting the riverside I saw as a child, the sunbeam on an open veranda, a doorframe where a table covered with a white tablecloth can be seen, the handrails of a wooden staircase. The paintings (now on canvas) stay longer on the easel, demanding more and more shades, urging me to look more intently into the past.
I am happy that in the process of work, people who are no longer here again find themselves close by, living with me. I am not afraid to seem a 'retrospective' artist, depicting what once was. The smell of the scorching steppe, the shimmer of the native Volga, the warmth of the parental home remain unchanged, but we change, and old subjects are filled with today's feeling.
From my passion for theatre remain theatrical compositions. These are easel works beyond time and dramatic ties. They are, most likely, my compositional exercises or fantasies. Why not fantasize if 'in the theatre everything is possible'?
Critic
... Dominov thinks not in plots, but in motifs. And the main thing here is in the nuances of color relationships, composition, rhythm. Nuances are always the messengers of the personal...
Warming each motif with loving attention, the artist depicts a seemingly quite ordinary yet idealized reality. This, it seems, is the result of a kind of 'double exposure.' The material for Dominov's works is largely motifs or perceptions from childhood. But the author perceives and evaluates them in a temporal perspective, from the height of age. Perhaps, as a theatre artist, Dominov creates a special theatre of memory, where the everyday floats before us in its slightly sad, yet festive parade. And youthful Renaissance rationalism seems to be embraced by Eastern contemplativeness, which harbors the ancient smile of the Buddha...
L. Mochalov
Bibliography
A. Pakhomov, 'Poetic Vision of the World,' Neva magazine, No. 8, 1980, p. 208; Yunost magazine, No. 12, 1983, pp. 80-81; Tvorchestvo magazine, No. 2, 1988, pp. 23-24; E. Sanzhin, 'Theatre by the Sea,' Aurora magazine, No. 1, 1986, p. 160; Neva magazine, No. 6, 1987, p. 176; A. Sazonov, 'India – Distant and Close,' Ogonyok magazine, No. 30, 1987, p. 11; Catalogue 'Exhibition of Works by Twenty-Six Leningrad and Moscow Artists,' 1990, Leningrad; V. Meyland, 'Joyful Art,' Ogonyok magazine, No. 19-20, 1993.
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