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Occam's razor

2023
Materials: hardboard, acrylic
103 см x 70 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 152983
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About the Work
About the Artist

In the "Flatland Chronicles" series, Gimranov, perhaps deliberately, removes human figures from the compositions, as if leaving the viewer alone with the silence of nature, offering a kind of "psychological" immersion into the space of the boundless plains. This infinity of yawning distances, the literal tangibility of the air, is achieved through a perfect balance of space on either side of the horizon. Perhaps this is, to some extent, the very space that allows conscious human thought to settle in, completely painlessly and comfortably. The strict, measured "meditativeness" seems to beckon one to pause and perhaps somehow try to "hear oneself," to touch the fragile and elusive.

Born in 1960 in Kazan.

From 1978 to 1986, he worked in the studio of artist Ildar Khanov (mosaic, sculpture, and monumental painting).

In 1987, he became the founder and art director of the first non-governmental art gallery in Kazan, "ARSENAL," which became a center of attraction for "unofficial" art from all over Tatarstan.

Since 1992, he has been a freelance artist. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and art projects in Russia and abroad.

In 2017, he created a fundamentally new urban artistic concept—the "Khrushchev-era Apartments" series.

In 2022, he created the resonant project "Chronicles of Flatlands."

Recent exhibitions:

2018: "Khrushchev's Thaw. The Housing I Loved" at the Rossotrudnichestvo office in London

2018: "You Should Have Been Here" at the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan

2019: "Khrushchev Apartments" at the Gallery of Contemporary Art of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan

2019: "Near Space" at the Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow

2020: "The Town Is Failing" at the Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow

2021: III International Triennial of Contemporary Graphics Novosibirsk

2024. "Summer Plans" exhibition, Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow

2025. "City" exhibition, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg

2025. Cosmoscow 2025, Zhudrov Gallery booth

2025. OBERTON (online), Zhudrov Gallery booth

2026. "High Horizon" exhibition, State Historical Museum of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan

2026. Catalog fair, Zhudrov Gallery booth

Auction Sales:

June 2017, "The First Day of Spring" (hardboard and acrylic, 61 x 91 cm) sold for £2,600 ($3,300) at MacDougall's, London.

December 2021, "Captains of the Cloudy Fjords" (hardboard and acrylic, 90 x 85 cm) sold for £6,300 ($9,000) at Sotheby's, London.

The artist's works are held in the collections of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve, the Museum of National Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, and the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, Museum of Contemporary Art ZAMAN (Ufa), Erarta Museum (St. Petersburg)