An exhibition of work by Turkmen artists has opened at the capital’s Expo Center ahead of Independence Day. It features a remarkable multi-genre collection of artists’ interpretations on the holiday.
Undoubtedly, at the core of this exhibition are works by young teacher of the State Academy of Arts Anna Annaev. His name is on everyone’s lips his fellow artists and art enthusiasts, who visit the exhibition, talk much about him. The artist’s unframed paintings enhance viewers’ visual perception.
Migrating Birds’ depicts birds flying high in an expanse of azure skies. Wispy clouds floating across the sky seem to be imitating rapid movements of the birds’ wings. The paining gives the sense of life in all its fullness and creative freedom.
No less impressive is Landscape’ featuring a cloudy sky that blends into the Kopetdag Range and is highlighted by fanciful bends in a river.Vegetation with a touch of autumn color and horses grazing peacefully in a meadow make the depiction complete with bright tones.
The artist’s another work, Elite Stallions’, has something in common with Landscape’.It portrays the Turkmen people’s national treasure - graceful Akhalteke horses.
A painting Melon Pickers’ contrasts in colors and stylistically with the artist’s other three paintings. Against the light background in the shape of a melon, four beautiful girls carry sweet fruits nicknamed the queen of the field’.
The exhibition brings together many paintings depicting children, whose smiles symbolize our country’s prosperity.Talented artist Rakhman Umarov presents A Girl in Red’.Interestingly, Rakhman has portrayed a five-year-old girl in many of his paintings.
She has become a good luck symbol for the artist.The series includes famous paintings such as The Wheel of Time’, Early Ripening Grapes’, and Tenderness’ with A Girl in Red’ as the newest addition to it.
Who is this little stranger, who has become Umarov’s muse? We asked the artist himself. As it turned out, the five-year-old is the metaphorical image of his two daughters, his close associates in his creative work.
The painting shows the girl in a special-occasion red dress on top of a sand dune. Perhaps, her father has left, and the youngster stares into the far distance, waiting for him eagerly.
Artist Vepa Kurdov’s When Nobody Is At Home’ features another funny little girl. Taking advantage of being alone, the girl opens a chest with silver jewelry and tries on a headdress (gupba) adorned with cornelian-encrusted plates (chekelik) and pendants (enselik). You cannot help but smile looking at the little Amazon with her zest for life.
Bayram Bazarov’s Birds’ is a stylistically original painting that offers a fascinating spatial representation. It gives an aerial view of a flock of birds flying above a multi-level junction surrounded by an emerald-green necklace of vegetation. The snow-white birds’ outstretched wings call up associations with the wide scope of transformations underway on Turkmen soil.
Jora Vayisov’s paintings vividly convey the beauty of Turkmen nature, pleasant coolness and the gurgling of a mountain river. Each of his three Realist landscape paintings is truly eye-catching and invites visitors to get a closer look at wonderful and unknown parts of their native country...