Rustem Skybin was born in 1976 in the city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan. In 1996, he graduated from the Samarkand School of Arts with a specialty of "artist-pedagogue". In 1996, he returned to the Motherland to the Crimea. In the period from 1996 to 2000, he worked as a chief artist at the ceramic enterprise "Tavrika" in Simferopol. Since 2000, he has been engaged in individual research, revival and development of ancient Crimean Tatar crafts, in particular, ceramics with the use of authentic ornaments. Based on the materials of the artist and art critic Mamut Churlu, who collected and deciphered a collection of traditional ornaments of Crimean Tatar embroidery, Skibin created his own style of polychrome painting of ceramic products. The experience and hard work of many years later made it possible to hone in on the main thing and discard the superfluous - this is how the unique author's style of Quru Isar / Куру Исар, which in translation from Crimean Tatar means "dry partition", was formed. Today, there are four centers in the world where a similar painting technique is used - Iran, Turkey, Spain and Ukraine. In the village of Acropolis of the Simferopol district, he created a creative workshop-studio "El-Cheber" (from the Crimean Tatar - "land of masters"), which trained such modern masters as Asie Mushurova, Eldar Husenov, Ayder Abibulaev, Asie Useinova and others. In 2014, after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, due to his citizenship, Rustem Skybin was forced to leave Crimea and moved to Kyiv, where over time the "El-Cheber" workshop grew to the scale of a public organization, which today participates in various creative projects - its own and partnership Among the recently implemented programs - the inter-museum project "Milky Way", created in co-authorship with the curator, art critic Georgy Brailovsky; publication and presentation of a children's coloring book using traditional Crimean Tatar ornaments, where ornamental semantics are translated into images of everyday scenes and are accompanied by children's poems; the "Path" project, which connected the cities of Ukraine and Poland with an ornamental path that decorated public places in the city space; Oyma / Оима - a traditional type of craft, an auxiliary element in the art of embroidery, which, due to its artistic and expressive properties, the master turned into a separate ornamental structure, which is used in the decoration of clothes and interiors; a series of media installations and performances Sürgün co-authored with Wlodko Kaufman and the Crimean House organization. The master's works are known far beyond the borders of Ukraine and are kept in museum and private collections. Skibin is an active participant of regional, all-Ukrainian and international events. The artist further actively collects, analyzes, and restores the manufacturing technologies of various forms of traditional domestic pottery ceramics, studies the initial professional vocabulary and promotes its use in the modern language of craftsmen. In addition to the main product - ornamented plates - it produces ceramic lamps, fountains, musical instruments, decorative panels. A separate series is the author's ornamented hookahs, in connection with which the Qarabin project begins its development with the revival of authentic tobacco traditions and the culture of smoking cafes of the old Crimea. The variety of creative interests of Rustem Skibin are intertwined in a single common goal and tireless desire - to give new life to the best Crimean traditions in the modern world through the eyes of a modern person.
