Atlantrop Rinat Minnebaev Automatic translate

Ufa artist Rinat Minnebaev (born 1964) is one of the leading masters of contemporary art of the Volga and Ural regions, who has received wide acclaim and recognition as a graphic artist. Since 1988 he has been participating in national, national, international and foreign exhibitions, since 1995 he has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, and since 2004 he has been a member of the International Academy of Graphics (St. Petersburg). He is a participant and winner of numerous biennials, festivals and graphic contests held in different countries of the world - Russia, Italy, China, Kazakhstan. His works are stored in the leading museums of our country (Ufa, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Irbit, Surgut, etc.) and abroad (USA, Italy, China). His creative activity is marked by high ranks: Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2006), Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2010).

The new exhibition in Kazan presents works created by Rinat Minnebaev in recent years in the author’s technique at the intersection of painting, drawing and photography. The basis of his works is paper pulp of manual casting. Using natural dyes, various methods of influencing the material (artificial craquelure, etc.), the artist achieves amazing effects in his works, creating surfaces resembling various natural forms of the macro- and microworld - satellite images of desert landscapes, dried up channels of seas and rivers, magnified many times bacteria, amoeba, ciliates, ulcers and diseases of our long-suffering world.

The artist inspired the creation of the “Atlantrop” series presented by the futuristic idea of ​​German engineer German Zergel, put forward as early as the 1920s. In order to get new unlimited sources of electricity, Zergel proposed blocking the Strait of Gibraltar and the Dardanelles with hydroelectric dams, which would lead to the drainage of the Mediterranean Sea, the creation of new seas in Africa, the unification of Europe and Africa into a single continent of Atlantrop. Scary prospects! How reminiscent of the projects of the late Soviet period on reversing Siberian rivers! Fortunately, neither German nor Soviet projects received support and quietly came to naught. But how many “wise and active heads” today continue to dream of grandiose transformations of nature, redraw countries according to their own understanding, bomb and blow up peaceful cities and villages, forcing huge masses of people to withdraw from their places, and ruthlessly extracting natural wealth, leaving lifeless spaces behind them…

Rinat Minnebaev’s project turned against such a thoughtless attitude towards Nature, artfully embodying the terrible consequences that such interference will inevitably lead to, and which makes you think about caring for the planet on which we live.