The opening ceremony of the exhibition “Wanderer” will take place in the administrative building of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes on May 28 at 15:00. It will present the works of Shavkat Abdusalamov - the artist who is unique in his gifts and originality of his creative activity. He is also a script writer, writer, actor and director. Being a many-sided and curious personality, Shavkat Abdusalamov doesn’t restrict himself to one genre or art in his artistic practice and creative experiments. The artist himself wrote, “I try to synthesize philosophy, psychology and literature in painting – everything that is connected with the concept of culture”.
Famous animator Yuri Norstein wrote about the artist, “Shavkat A. doesn’t charm anybody with national exotics. He is the artist standing well on the way between Christian Europe, whitewashed Asia and the hardly visible in the fog East. His painting is the lapis lazuli in the clay frame that has cracked because of heat. A blue jug appears in the hands dipped into the greasy ochre. His parchment figures touch the sky with their heads. They are lanky like “Going Vincent van Gogh” of Ossip Zadkine. They are covered with sandy flour from millstones and are cooled with the blue sky”.
The works of Shavkat Abdusalamov are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery and in private collections in Russia, Europe and the USA (the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection).
The exhibition in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes will be open till June 25.
