Aleksandr Rubets is a Russian artist of Belarusian origin, representative of the Russian and Soviet schools of the late 1960s–1970s, who works in the genres of landscape, still life and portraiture. At this exhibition Aleksandr Rubets’ work is represented by landscapes and still lifes in oil, created over the last 12 years of the artist’s activity.
Aleksandr Rubets regularly exhibits as a member of the Southern Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts. The artist had a solo exhibition at the Academy in 2014. Aleksandr Rubets’ works are in the collections of more than 20 art museums of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.
The artist has been an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts since 2013, and a Corresponding Member since 2023. Awarded gold and silver medals and the Shuvalov Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, the medal “For Services to the Russian Academy of Arts”.
Aleksandr Rubets’ work has a certain kind of cross-cultural sensibility. Several artistic traditions are intentionally or subconsciously intertwined in his atmospheric canvases painted with sweeping brushstrokes. They reflect the idea of art being a universal, unifying power, which erases the boundaries between cultures and nations, brings people together on the basis of shared human values and emotions.
The painter’s landscapes are an embodiment of the artists’s worldview, his desire to depict the stability and grandeur of the Caucasus’ nature, no matter which changes may occur. Each of the landscapes on display is distinguished by its subtle and at the same time organic beauty of colour combinations, picturesque architectonics of form, sculptured texture, airy freedom, clarity of ideas, expressive precision in his own reflections of natural views. His still lifes are evident of a special vision of nature, when plastic expression is embedded in the very texture of the painting. In the paintings of Alexander Rubets, matter, animated by colour and dynamic brushwork, reveals the poetry of the physical existence of the Caucasus’ nature and the human world, making it shiver with sensual materiality. The artist strives to create his own pictorial space, a dimension of his own, where colour, form and feeling reign supreme.
The exhibition presents more than 50 works which in various ways reflect the artist’s creative vision of the Caucasus’ nature and culture.
The majority of works on display have been provided by the artist from his private collection.
The exhibition “To the Caucasus... Aleksandr Rubets. Painting” will be on display from 28 February to 13 April, 2025 in the museum’s main building (20 Lenin St.,; grand gallery).
Exhibition curators: Ganna Kuzniatsova, senior researcher of the Department of World Art of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus; Galina Tsydzik, junior researcher of the Department of Foreign Art of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.
