ASTANA – The Kazakh capital hosted the opening of an exhibition titled House Exploration. Metamorphosis of Time, unveiling vivid artworks made by Polish artist Wojciech Fangor and Kazakh artist Mazhit Baitenov, on Sept. 15 within the Kulanshi Artwork House gallery. The exhibition will final till Oct. 20.
Friends of the exhibition. Photograph credit score: Kulanshi Artwork House gallery’s press service
Fangor, who handed away in October 2015, was a Polish graphic artist, sculptor and a co-creator of the Polish Faculty of Posters. His works have been included in exhibits on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Baitenov is member of Kazakh Union of Artists, whose work are stored in Almaty-based Kasteev State Artwork Museum, Museum of Karagandy and Pavlodar cities in addition to in non-public collections of Kazakhstan, the US, Israel, Russia and Germany.
Artworks made by Baitenov. Photograph credit score: Kulanshi Artwork House gallery’s press service
In an interview with The Astana Instances, Kulanshi Artwork Gallery curator Leila Makhat advised how they got here up with the concept to launch this venture and what binds two artists.
“A number of months in the past staff of the Polish Embassy in Kazakhstan contacted us – Kulanshi Artwork Heart, and we mentioned the group of an exhibition of the well-known Polish artist Wojciek Fangor, whose anniversary is well known this yr. This yr can also be important for each nations as they rejoice the thirtieth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations, so we determined to replicate this event in our venture by means of artwork,” famous Makhat.
Kulanshi Artwork Gallery curator Leila Makhat with Chair of the ForteBank Bekzhan Pirmatov. Photograph credit score: Kulanshi Artwork House gallery’s press service
In keeping with her, Fangor and Baitenov are artists from completely different worlds, however, actually, they discuss the identical factor of their artwork – about human and the area round him. “It isn’t a lot about bodily, however extra about philosophical which means. Their reflections on connection and the internal world of the character are very related,” Makhat defined.
Baitenov’s grandson, Anuarbek Akylbekov, who attended the occasion along with his grandfather and acts as his supervisor, mentioned in an interview that his grandfather exhibited work from completely different collections – a few of them have nationwide fashion and belong to Uly Dala Kupiyasy (Thriller of the Nice Steppe) assortment, whereas different artwork works are made in avant-garde fashion.
Artworks made by Fangor. Photograph credit score: Kulanshi Artwork House gallery’s press service
“In Uly Dala Kupiyasy assortment, my grandfather used the methods of Western artists, however added a people fashion, as a result of he needed to point out the Kazakh identification. In flip, the summary works are additionally made in accordance with the foundations of Western fashion, however a few of them have nationwide components,” mentioned Akylbekov.
In keeping with Baitenov, some work symbolize the previous of the Kazakh nation and others – summary future, serving as bridges between previous and future.
