Oscar Rabin (artist)
Oscar Rabin (Russian: Оскар Яковлевич Рабин; Moscow, 2 January 1928 – Florence, 7 November 2018) was a major Russian painter and activist who defined the core of the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement,[1] affecting the careers of countless painters and sculptors of that era and its aftermath.
Biography
Born in Moscow on January 2, 1928 in the family of doctors Yakov Rakhmilovich Rabin (originally from
Along with the writer and collector Alexander Glezer, Oscar Rabin was instrumental in the organization of what is known as the dissident Bulldozer Exhibition, an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo (ru) urban forest by Moscow avant-garde artists on 15 September 1974. The exhibition was forcefully broken up by a large police force that included bulldozers and water cannons.[3] These events and Rabin's biography have been documented in the two-part documentary Oscar (2018) and In Search of a Lost Paradise (2015).
Subsequently, he participated in the jubilee exhibition on Gogol Boulevard in 1995, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the exhibition of painting in the pavilion "beekeeping" at VDNH with Eduard Drobitsky, Julia Dolgorukova[4] and other nonconformist artists.[5]
In 1978, Rabin and his family were reportedly stripped of their Soviet passports and citizenship; that year, Rabin emigrated to Paris[2] where he lived until his death at the age of 90 on 7 November 2018.[6]
In November 2016, via a signed Order of the President of the
The artist had been predeceased by his wife - Valentina Kropivnitskaya (1924-2008) and their son, Alexandre Rabine (1952-1994), both noted artists as well.
The Catalogue Raisonne of all oil paintings produced by Rabine during his lifetime is being prepared by the London based academic Dr Robert Rabilizirov, who has been working on this project for over 20 years.
External links
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
- ^ a b c "OSKAR RABIN". Saatchi Gallery.
- Radio Liberty. 15 September 2004.
- ^ Oscar Yakovletvich Rabin MEMORIAL
- ^ К 20-летию выставки в павильоне «Пчеловодство» ВДНХ СССР. Каталог. М., IFA, 1995.
- ^ "Художник Оскар Рабин скончался во Флоренции". vesti.ru. Retrieved 2018-11-08.