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Leonard Rubins – From Mixed Times to Mixed Media
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The space and time in which Leonard Rubins began to create his own narratives in pictures reaches far back in time, living only as a blurred memory. Period of incomprehensible fears, brave ideas, ungrounded idealism and blocked society that lives on Totalitarianism…
Tractate on the Ordinary Man – Part II.
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He spent his childhood in an Utopian system of the Slavic nations, that after decades of totalitarian regime did not survive the spirit of time. Latently protected from the possibility of evolutionary process, which results in the personal development of altruistic values, he solely hermetically lived each day, as it offered itself.
Soon he discovered his first great salvation. Strong love for the world beyond the borders, of the known and safe. The source of imagination was coming from a new world in the West. Living directly on the border between two different ideologies, he had recognized in his creative enthusiasm the strengths and weaknesses of his regime. His regime was… red, but the West was … a rainbow. The vague life at the border of the new world, was a continuous risk and tension. The ideology of the regime, during Rubins’ vital youth, has permanently marked his character to a large extent.
He has suffered - as a featured individualist in collective mass hysteria values. He was Incomprehensible – as an Utopian, who was nurturing thoughts about new horizons and a global-free world. He was Melancholic – with the idea of otherness marked on his forehead, later almost in masochistic pose, bowing down to the mighty master, whose creation we all adored, while at the same time, as ordinary people, nurtured a covert cynicism to all that was different. That time can also take great credit for the development of collective laziness. Seeking great consolation and waiting for better times, a lot of pretending and imaginary creations were present during Tito’s period – unfortunately, also the masters were pretending that Rubins was well paid and rewarded.
Passivity of the society, had left deep marks also on the creations of Rubins who was still called Darko Senekovič at that time.
Through his pictures in mixed technique, he was gradually constructing his plan of salvation. As an unprofessional and amateur artist, who was working in a fabric to earn his daily bread, he was able to build his stories in pictures without a burden and sincerely – although lonely. He lived in the “Go West” syndrome and for twenty years, he has been experiencing the triviality of his time directly and forcefully. In the relationship between love – hatred and desire – envy, he was experiencing the freedom and dynamism of what was different and the stiffness of his regime.
The ambitions and dominance of the Slavic regimes eventually began to collapse and fall to pieces. Through the chaos of values and nonsense of everything that had been done and believed into until then, the ideologies and their creators once again amended to bitter memories.
Then – only ideologically renewed – the masses took refuge to the nearest land, whose tempting offer was illusory in the prosaic content of the new security – and found their shelter among them, who they had despised in the past so conceitedly.
There was nothing left for Rubins, but Utopianism to which, he had been entirety faithful – in his artworks until today.
• Mixed media gallery
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Technique: Mixed media on special graphic paper, sometimes combined with Airbrush.
This works are available either as original or limited edition giclee print
or special RGB computer photo(DURST LAMBDA®) in different sizes.
All prints are signed and numbered. Prices for prints are available on request.
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Leonard Rubins art is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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