Ryazantsev Igor Vladimirovich, born 28.04.1965, city of Saint Petersburg.
Pseudonym Rene Reza
Russian artist working in the style of Filumism.
On December 20, 2011, he patented a new style of painting called Filumism.
Rene Reza is an artist, founder of the new painting style Filumism, and the only person in the world who paints in this style. He was nominated for the Guinness Book of Records in the category "One of a Kind" and has exhibited at the Louvre.
Manifesto of Filumism.
Everything in our world is interconnected, but are all the threads that connect us visible and tangible? Even broken threads continue somewhere in the infinite universe, in parallel worlds and dimensions inaccessible to our worldview. Charcoal, pencil, and an artist’s brushstroke have the property of breaking. They relate to the theory of "touching eternity," the creation of stable, static images of it. Filumism is an attempt to develop this staticity through the sensation of interconnection, as if we penetrate the essence of light not only through its molecular structure but also through its wave nature. The threads of Filumism are a kind of "string theory" in art, similar to the theory in quantum physics. The highest goal of Filumism is to find the threads that not only compose a given image but also connect the Creator, the co-creator (artist, painter), and the viewer. This task is reflected in the continuity of the structure and development of the universe, unwinding spirals, galaxies, and, in fact, in the continuity of the spirals of time to which we are subject, but eternity is not.
We do not know how many straight lines (threads) intersect at one point in space. We do not know, but only imply that two straight lines intersect somewhere in infinity. We do not know how many threads are in the hands of the creator and which of them is currently in motion. The result of this movement (oscillation) is sound or color, or both together, and most importantly—a chain of consequences of this oscillation, including the spiritual experiences of a person.
The reflection of these oscillations on canvas is the essence of Filumism. And let us remember that if in Latin "filum" means "thread," then the English "feeling," which derives from it, means "sense." The thread to feelings, consciousness, and subconsciousness, which, superimposed on the threads of the canvas, forms a single fabric of the visible and invisible and thus becomes a new connecting thread between primary and artistic reality. Reality, the visible and the invisible, obvious and hidden feelings, the message and perception, reality and sleep, consciousness and subconsciousness, love and faith—a thread stretches through all this. The path of this thread is the path of Filumism. Filumism is the missing injection in contemporary art. For in our case, the artist's thread is pulled from the syringe and lies on the canvas. The artist made an attempt to connect new achievements in science, for example, "String Theory," with ancient religious and philosophical teachings of the East, using an original technique. And through the prism of the new style of "Filumism," to consider the main question of philosophy: what is primary—thinking or being, material or spiritual? And also to take a new look at the world, the universe, our place in it, the illusory nature of the material and the material nature of the spirit, the connection of everything with everything from the point of view of a person of the 21st century. The artist examines the eternal questions that have troubled us throughout human civilization and the answers to which we have not yet found.
Today, the most iconic works of Filumism are:
Portrait of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, 2013
Art Wikipedia "The Great Silk Road," started in 2016
Painting series, painting performance, painting art show.
A painting one kilometer long.
Rene Reza has invented a new style of painting for the 21st century. The essence of the filumism technique is to paint not with a brush, but with a syringe, squeezing paint through a needle and laying it on the surface of the canvas in the form of thin colored threads, creating a kind of non-woven acrylic tapestry.
"White Gallery" Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2011
Gallery "Window" Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2012
Government of the Sverdlovsk Region, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2012
Centre of Modern and Contemporary Art National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan 2014
JSC "National Welfare Fund "Samruk-Kazyna" Astana, Kazakhstan, 2014
CARROUSEL du LOUVRE "SALON DEX BEAUX ARTS 2017" Paris, France, 2017
Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in France, Paris 2018
"Gallery Mickael Marciano" Paris, France 2018-2020
28.05.20-28.10.22 the gallery "ART Gallery Rene Reza" was open Tyumen.
1.11.22-20.12.22 personal exhibition at the Kuzbass Arts Center.
25.12.22-8.01.23 personal exhibition in Novosibirsk "White Gallery".
20.04.23-1.07.23 personal exhibition in Yekaterinburg MCI "Glavny Prospekt".
10.07.23-13.07.23 exposition at the International Exhibition "Innoprom Yekaterinburg".
24.11.23-21.6.24 participation in the International Exhibition and Forum "Russia" VDNKh Moscow.
21.06.24 ceremonial transfer of the painting "Invincible Russia" 200x200 cm to the State Historical Museum (Moscow).
20.06.24-15.09.24 personal exhibition at the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg).
16.01.25-16.02.25 personal exhibition at the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug State Art Museum
28.02.25-30.03.25 personal exhibition at the Surgut Art Museum.
Unique project — Art Wikipedia «The Great Silk Road» as long as life.
“On May 28, 2016, I started the 100-meter painting «The Great Silk Road». It seemed to be such a grandiose project that I would like to live to see its completion. But as they say “The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing”.
The Silk Road and Filumism. The concept of Filumism is that everything is interconnected with everything. ART Wikipedia «The Great Silk Road» consists of separate volumes. Each volume is a part of the canvas that tells a story, characterizes a country, an era, and also expresses the concept of one of the various techniques of Filumism. Silkworm threads have connected continents for many centuries.
In ART Wikipedia «The Great Silk Road» I combine them with the threads of Filumism: thus one concept is superimposed on another, a new form of painting presentation appears, understandable to both a professor and a child.
Any artist has the power to unite peoples, eras, and phenomena by virtue of his imagination. The same thing was done by the silkworm thread for eight centuries. Wars were unleashed, the great migration of peoples took place, but the "trade road" that arose before our era and developed until the 18th century remained unshakable! New conquerors captured cities, but in the morning, as before, traders went to the market, and life went on.
The Great Silk Road ended its existence in the 18th century, but the disclosure of this theme over 8 years gave me a feeling of living involvement in the long past. Every day I work on the main project of my life - a painting that will connect peoples, religions, cultures, traditions and customs.
The work continues, and I am in anticipation of presenting to the whole world the acrylic thread of Filumism, which is constantly moving, connecting everything and everyone, at the same time constantly returning our memory to the distant past. In my project, I try to reproduce events that have sunk into oblivion, I revive and fill with details the memory of times and peoples, I try to make it close and understandable to modern people through the prism of modern art, through a new style of painting - Filumism.
Today, 100 meters have already been presented to the public.
And what is all this?! ⠀
Almost everyone who saw the picture asked. They asked me not to stop, but to continue. ⠀
While working on the picture, more and more new ideas came to mind, which are already enough for 250-300 meters.
And the last thing - 100 meters did not reveal the whole theme, did not show everything that I wanted to show the viewer. Summarizing all of the above, I thought, why not take a course for a picture one kilometer long?! ⠀
And everyone with whom I consulted unanimously supported me.
Thus, dear friends, the "Great Silk Road" project continues! And his new size is a painting ONE KILOMETER long!
Thank you all for your support! ⠀
I promise that this will not be just a chase for footage, but there will be canvases that are not inferior to the first hundred meters. ⠀
I thank everyone again for instilling in me additional confidence and hope that in this life I will have time to finish a 1000 meter canvas! "
Igor Ryazantsev (Rene Reza)
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