Aliyev Rustam Biography

Rustam Aliyev is 57 years old, the “Russian Center for Art” in Kaliningrad extracting someone’s name out of oblivion, studying it, making it acquaintances for the public, we primarily expand our understanding of the picture of the human world, we know ourselves and our history Rustam Aliyev, the owner and many years of general director of the Kaliningrad dairy plant, and one of the most famous local grocery cords.

JSC "Milk". In this status, Aliyev was known to the entire honest public of Kaliningrad up to a year, when the mention of the enterprise disappeared from his business cards, and the one-single word “collector” appeared. The evolution of his hobby is understandable to the Kaliningrad residents - Aliyev was born and raised in Kaliningrad, where very many sooner or later, long or briefly, seriously or accidentally fond of Koenigsberg antiquity: furniture, bronze, dishes.

The result of this hobby for Rustam Aliyev was the “authentic” house restored to the level of Marina Raskova in that prestigious part of Amalienau - the district of Kutuzov Avenue - which is customary to show tourists. They are now regular participants in the landscape in the square near the house of Aliyev. The collector is the highest stage in the evolutionary chain of gathering, and yet collectors are divided into two types.

Those who want to show masterpieces to the public, and those that leave them only for their own eyes and are content with a sense of possession. Aliyev, not only shows his indisputable - with high grades of art historians and confirmed by the examination - masterpieces of everyone who wants to see them, he conceived and began to implement the project of the Russian Center for Art near the Cathedral - in the heart of cultural Kaliningrad.

The voices that doubted the museum level of his collection were made. Therefore, they were still helped that one exhibition composed of the paintings of the Aliyev collection replaces the other: “I believe that we should live in Russian culture, and as far as I want to create a certain“ context ”of Russian art in Kaliningrad.” He buys paintings at auctions, in the market that existed among collectors, and recently searches for the legacy and heirs of Soviet artists, carried away by another direction of painting - socialist realism.

His new idea is to re -open forgotten names. In the history of art, in monographs about the masters of the past, the plot is often found when the author, known during life and “fame”, by a strange coincidence, goes into oblivion.

A little happy lot falls out to stay in eternity. Thinking on this topic, we can say that the art collector is somewhat similar to an archaeologist, whose cherished dream is to find, open his “artepact” and present it to the world. After all, the process of forming a collection is quite complicated and its ultimate goal is not the accumulation of everything and everything, but the discovery.

The discovery of new names, the discovery of forgotten or little -known artists, the disclosure of their public talent. Removing someone’s name out of oblivion, studying it, making it familiar to the public, we primarily expand our understanding of the picture of the world of man, we know ourselves and our history. The circle of artists is incredibly huge, and what is known, only a small part of the Universe of “Creativity and Art,” writes Rustam Aliyev in the preface to the exhibition of Solomon Boyim, Soviet designer, graphics and master of watercolors.

This exhibition was successfully held in the summer of the year, and the opening of the Russian Center for Art is scheduled for a year. Knowing Aliyev’s stubbornness and perseverance, you can be sure that it will be so.