On October 10, a personal exhibition of the Honored Artist of Russia and Bashkortostan will open at the National Art Gallery of the RT Fine Arts

October 10, 2019 at 16.00 at  the National Art Gallery of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan  the personal exhibition of the Honored Artist of Russia and Bashkortostan Rinat Zufarovich Kharisov  is to open.

The exposition, which will last until November 10, includes works created by the master in different periods of life, from the collection of the author, the National  Museum of Fine Arts and the Fund named after S. Marjani.

Rinat Harisov was born in 1953 in a small village Lenin Bulyak of the Buraevsky district in the territory of Bashkortostan. In 1972, he graduated from the Ufa Pedagogical College, in 1978 - the art department of the Ufa State Institute of Arts. In 1982, after writing the painting “Embroidered Handkerchief”, in fact, it laid, along with other masters in this direction, the foundation of an “ethnic” avant-garde based on the traditions of folk art of the Tatars and Bashkirs.

Nationality, as a phenomenon of worldview, is genetically inherent in the creative nature of Rinat Kharis. From childhood, the artist absorbed folk wisdom through songs, proverbs, sayings, the whole lifestyle of the Tatar village. Through the years, he carried this love of folk sources, inherited from his grandparents. In his works, he admires embroideries from the old chest, bright patchwork quilts, patterns of carpets, forms of kumgans, flowers on window sills and rockers on girl's shoulders, multicolored painted village houses, everything that forms the life and aesthetics of the space of the village.

Nationality manifests itself in the manner of writing, in its naturalness and simplicity. The connection with living reality is also supported by witty inscriptions that reveal not only the content of the paintings, but also the meaning of the visual symbols abound in them. Plunging into the world of folklore imagery, finding a source of inspiration in it, Rinat Haris combines image and word, painting and folk poetry.