Rustam Khalfin
Seeing Through the Artist's Hand

Rustam Khalfin. Seeing Through the Artist’s Hand

Paperback – 2007
by Nadim Samman (Editor), Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen (Editor)

Khalfin, a Tartar, born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), began his professional life during the stagnant Soviet era, graduating in 1972 from the Moscow Architecture Institute. In the 1980s, while residing in St Petersburg, he became involved with the circle surrounding Vladimir Sterligov – a close associate of Kasimir Malevich. It was then that Khalfin was first exposed to the richness of the Russian Avant-garde, a point of departure for his own painting. Shortly thereafter, in partnership with his wife Lydia, he began to pioneer performance art in Kazakhstan. From then until today, Khalfin has ceaselessly experimented with a variety of media, also including painting, sculpture, installation, and video.

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