Exhibition of Alexander Inshakov. The expanses of the native land. On the occasion of his 70th birthday

Alexander Fedorovich Inshakov, member of the Union of Artists of Russia, People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, has been a participant in all republican exhibitions since 1972. He was born in Kazan in 1947. He graduated from the Kazan Art College (now KHU named after N. I. Feshin) and the graphic arts department of the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute.

The head of the art school, Kazan Art College, and the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Alexander Inshakov today fruitfully combines pedagogical and creative activities. A.F. Inshakov is a participant in such large zonal and Russian exhibitions as The Decade of Tatar Art in Moscow (1978), Big Volga (Kazan, 1991; Nizhny Novgorod, 1998; Saransk, 2004; Cheboksary, 2008; Moscow, 2009.), III All-Russian exhibition “The Image of the Motherland” (Vologda, 2006), International Exhibition of Watercolor (Petrozavodsk, 2014, 2016), “Exhibition for the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan” in St. Petersburg (2005). His personal exhibitions were held with great success in Kazan (1997, 2001, 2007, 2010, 2014), Almetyevsk (1984), Elabuga (1990), Yoshkar-Ola (2005), Zelenodolsk (2005, 2009).

A recognized landscape painter, he is one of the rare artists today who work equally interestingly and professionally in painting and graphic art, and masterfully master the art of watercolor. The exhibition features more than 40 works, diverse not only in technology but also in the genre: still life, portrait, chamber and industrial landscape. Different in mood, they are always recognizable. The originality of the artist’s works is largely due to his ability to feel and convey the special transitional state of nature, when everything is fragile, fresh, changeable. He is more concerned about a world devoid of static, settled certainty: a world that flashes for a moment with the sharpened beauty of autumn or lead rain in the port, or a world where everything just begins, like the first green in spring or the freshness of flowers in the early morning.

Demonstrating high professionalism, the exhibition pleases with a general bright mood and open lyricism, so characteristic of the condition of Alexander Inshakov himself.

The exhibition runs through January 9, 2018.