Rustam Khalfin is rightfully considered one of the most significant figures in the art of Central Asia of the XX century. He worked in painting, and photography and became one of the first to engage in performance, installation, and video art. He had a great influence on the regional art community and developed the concept of the aesthetics of nomads in the modernist perception. In 1999, he opened his LOOK gallery.
His works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Russia), Zimmerly Museum of Nonconformist Art in New Jersey (USA), the MuHKA Museum of Modern Art (Belgium), and the A. Kasteev State Museum of Art in Almaty, the National Museum of Kazakhstan in Nur-Sultan, as well as other museums and private collections.
About the artist
Дуэт Лидии Блиновой и Рустама Хальфина сыграл важную роль в формировании казахстанской современной арт-сцены.
Они были не только супругами, но и соратниками по искусству, часто создавая совместные концептуальные проекты,
которые находились на пересечении нескольких дисциплин — архитектуры, живописи, скульптуры, перформанса.
Сам Хальфин называл Блинову своим «альтер эго».
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The Rustam Khalfin Heritage Foundation is a private cultural organization with a mission to promote, encourage, explain, and protect the artistic, cultural, and intellectual creativity of the artist both inside and outside of Kazakhstan.
Go to FoundationYouTube channel dedicated to the art of Rustam Khalfin tells about the artist's life and the cultural heritage he left through interviews with his contemporaries, followers and connoisseurs of his contribution to the development of art.
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