Ilsur Metshin visited the exhibition "Four Seasons"

(Kazan City KZN.RU, September 13, Adelia Galieva). The Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin visited the exhibition of works by the French artist of Tatar origin Rinat Animaev "Four Seasons”. The exposition is presented in the City Hall. With the head of the city the representative of Tatar diaspora in France and vice president of the Association "Cultural Bridge Russia - France" Leah Proner, as well as director of the Kazan City Hall Dina Latfullina inspected the exibition.

Kazan Mayor praised the works of the famous French master – in total in the City Hall about 100 works of the artist are presented. Among the landscape scenes are the sunny fields, forests, the sea shore and the white blanket of snow. According to the organizers, tranquility reigns in the works of Rinat Animaev. The exhibition was presented in Kazan City Hall in collaboration with the Association "Cultural Bridge Russia - France".

Rinat Animaev is among the ten best French artists of the present time. He is a Tatar from Tajikistan, was born in Dushanbe. Since childhood, he studied fine arts with his father, who was also an artist. After the art school he graduated from the Moscow Surikov State Art Institute.

In 1981, together with students from the Surikov Institute he visited an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nikolai Feshin in Kazan. He remembered this trip to Kazan at the exhibition with warmth and hospitality of the Tatar people and a great love for the work of his compatriot. Kazan gave him a meeting with many of the graduates of the Kazan Art School, with whom he continued his further communication in Moscow and abroad.

 Rinat Animaev lives and works in France since 1989. The dancer Rudolf Nureyev, writer and translator Lev Gumilyov, theater and film actress Lyudmila Gurchenko, writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, actor, poet, musician Vladimir Vysotsky posed for him. He works in a genre of graphics, historical portrait, landscape, sculpture. His works are in museums and private collections in Russia, America, Belgium, Norway, France, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria, Japan.

The exhibition "Four Seasons" in Kazan will last until October 30. Recall, at the City Hall such exposures as a photo exhibition of Valery Plotnikov "Vladimir Vysotsky, Marina, Friends ...", an exhibition of war photography 1941-1945 by the Lumiere brothers Center of Photography and exposure of the works of the local photographers "About Kazan with love"  passed with great success.