Rubens Korubin


Rubens Korubin is an artist based in Skopje.

Education and career

Korubin graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1974 and completed his postgraduate studies in the class of Mladen Srbinovic in 1976. From 1977 till 1979, he attended a specialization course in Paris at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts. He was a full-time professor at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia until his retirement in 2013. Rubens attended numerous group exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad. He also realized more than 20 one-man shows in Skopje, Belgrade, Paris etc.

Painting style

Rubens takes Renaissance subjects and transports them to a modern frontier. His use of shading breathes light at almost any shade. His characters leap from the canvas, always the focal point yet not so much so as to be detached from the scene.

Solo exhibitions

1979 Skopje, Gallery DLUM
1980 Sombor, Artistic Autumn
1980 Skopje, Cultural Centre of Skopje
1982 Belgrade, Art Gallery of the Cultural Centre
1985 Prilep, Cultural Centre Marko Cepenkov
1985 Bitola, Art Gallery Mosha Pijade
1985 Skopje, Art Gallery Daut Pasha Amam
1987 Belgrade, Art Gallery Atrium
1992 Skopje, Art Gallery Daut Pasha Amam
1997 Paris, Art Gallery Le Lys
1998 Skopje, Art Gallery MANU
2001 Skopje, Museum of Skopje City
2010 Skopje, Cultural Information Centre - Skopje "Moonlight stories"
2011 Toronto, Canada, Bezpala Brown Gallery "The Artist and His Muse"
The art of Rubens Korubin is part of few museum's permanent exhibitions:
- Banja Luka, 30 Years - Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- National Art Gallery of Macedonia
- Museum of Modern Art Skopje Macedonia
- Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia

Awards

Korubin received the following awards:
1977 – Skopje, Award for painting at the exhibition “Young generation 3”
1978 – Skopje, Award for Drawing “Kliment Ohridski” from DLUM exhibition
1979 – Skopje, Award for painting “The Nerezi Masters” at the DLUM exhibition
1981 – Skopje, Award for painting “Mosha Pijade” at 7th exhibition of SDLUJ
2004 – Skopje, Grand Prix at the winter Salon exhibition by DLUM

Monuments

2006 Mosaic Macedonia in the Memorial Centre ASNOM - Pelince
2004 Mosaic Cupidae Legum Iuventuti at the faculty of Law Iustinijanus Primus in Skopje

Quotes about the artist

"... Rubens is among those artists that have succeeded in their work to surmount, for themselves and for us, the limit of human fortuity. To convince us with his gentle artistic "caress" on the canvas, the velvet layers of delicately selected and coordinated colours that vibrate with the movements of nature, that the search for artistic "beauty" is still and very much worth our while. This is the form of struggle that Rubens has chosen to rise over the hopelessness and the ugliness that hover over modern day humanity in more ways than one." Boris Petkovski, author