Rukhin Eugene L.

July 2, 1943 (Saratov) - May 24, 1976 (Leningrad)

Human life is like a pedestrian path, which goes to an unknown location.

E. Rukhin

Painter.

In 1961-1966 he studied at the Eugene Rukhin geological survey department of Leningrad University. In 1964-1965 was a volunteer of the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art to them. V. Mukhina. Has emerged as an artist largely independently, studying the western modernism from reproductions and interacting with other underground artists. Around 1967 Rukhin met in Moscow with Rabin, D. Plavinskaya L. Masterkova, V. Nemukhin.

exhibited since 1966, overseas - since 1967.

in 1966 in one of the Leningrad theater he had his first solo exhibition in 1969 he presented his work at the exhibition "10 Artists of Leningrad" in 1974 - at the exhibition "50 Leningrad artists. In Moscow in 1970 Rukhin works exhibited at the courtyard of the mansion journalist E. Stevens. In 1974 the artist was a member of the "Bulldozer Exhibition", as well as the 2 nd fall of the show pictures "outdoors" in Forest Park Izmailovo (Moscow). In 1975, the wizard exhibited at numerous apartment exhibitions.

Abroad Rukhin works were exhibited in New York (gallery B. Parsons, 1967), Lugano (Museum of Fine Arts, Switzerland, 1970), as well as in Caracas (Venezuela), Aarhus (Denmark ), Vienna (Austria), Stuttgart (Germany), etc.

was killed during a fire in his workshop.

Among the early works Rukhin dominated restrained in tone, sometimes almost monochrome landscapes and urban motifs, related to the art Rabin.

main feature of the artist's work since 1968 - work with the texture. It included pictures of the wreckage of old furniture, pieces of various items, and later created a cycle of paintings with antique frames (1972) and with the prints of icons (1973).

Since 1969, the artist began working on a series of pointless abstractions - exercises with different materials on a white background.

«... Rukhin was a bridge connecting the artists" Strip-Neva culture "with the Moscow underground. Regularly visiting the Moscow, he participated in all cultural events in both capitals ... known fact epistolary communication Rukhin with Western artists, pop artists, including James Rosenquist. The American sent Rukhin paint and even dedicated to him one of his works «WhippedbutterforEugeneRuchin», 1965 ... » (Julia Lebedeva-Gretskaya, curator of the museum" Other Art »).

great importance for the fate of the creative artist was familiar with Norton Dodge, an American collector, to the major overseas collection of unofficial art of the former Soviet republics.

Pictures Rukhin represented in the collection of Norton Dodge (now in the Zimmerly Museum at Rutgers University, USA), in the Moscow Museum "Other Art" at Rossii'skom gosudarstvennom Humanities University and other collections.