Exhibitions

Tatar shamail: the Word and the Image. The Art of Calligraphy.

The State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow,  April 24, 2009 – June 21, 2009 

The exhibition celebrated Tatar shamails, a kind of traditional religious calligraphy, which is considered as one of the most unique traditions of the Volga-Ural region, featuring some 70 objects drawn largely from the collections of the Mardjani Foundation, The State Museum of Fine Art of the Republic of Tatarstan and private ownership.

Hamid Savkuev

From July 6, 2009 to September 6, 2009 the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow held “The New Ark” addressing the St.-Petersburg Art School - an exhibition of the St.-Petersburg based Kazakhstani-born artist Hamid Savkuev. It was organized as a presentation of more than 100 works, including paintings, schulpture and several graphic works, introducing the artist to the Moscow audience.

TURKESTANI AVANT-GARDE: AN EHXIBITION CATALOGUE.

An idea of Black Square, a manifest of Suprematism would never strike a traveler to Turkistan.

 

An exhibition catalogue introduces works of Russian artists, who lived and worked in Middle Asia in 1920-30s and now are associated with Turkistani avant-garde, an original blazing phenomenon in cultural and artistic life of Soviet Russia and USSR.  The publication is also supplied with a number of historical essays on schools, groups and artists of ‘Turkestani Avant-garde’.

 

SHAMAILS IN QUL SHARIF (KAZAN)

A role, shamails has always been playing in Tatar society, goes far beyond Islamic art. The Arabic script eponimizes both traditions of centuries-old written language and particular history and intellectual wealth of Tatars. This is the secret of revival of the art of Tatar Shamail in the 90’s of the last century and a growing vogue in the last decade.

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