04/10/10 - Origins of Lines and Plastics - Viewing the Aine

Дата публикации: Jan 19, 2012 1:26:7 PM

Malika Safayeva

The exhibition Line and Plastics has been opened in the Center of National Arts in Tashkent organized by the Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation together with IJOD Association of Artists, Art Historians and People’s Masters.

Over 120 products including graphic art, sculpture and modern ceramics, as well as installation and performance by the members of the Association IJOD are displayed in the exhibition. The action demonstrates new aspects of design in drawing and forms in creativity of modern Uzbekistani artists. “Namely line and plastics are considered the important categories of the fine art, the very beginning,” noted the Honored Worker of Art of Uzbekistan Ahmad Shoimurodov. “It is of a great pleasure that artists and sculptures look back to their origins, that is to figurative art which is intelligible to ordinary people. After all, the artist if the mirror of his period and he ought to reflect the modernity.” The participants of the exhibition are the artists of various directions having their inimitable style. Exploring the theme of “line and plastics”, they in a special way and newly interpreted it in various genres, using rather different methods. Usually, artists start with the smallest before launching something vast and compositional. As it was noted at the opening ceremony, the exhibition was of intellectual one, though not big in scale. The principal part of the exhibition containing graphic art and sculpture products got inspired with fairytales, historical scenes, as well as traditional motifs. For instance, a series of graphics “Khorazm” by Tatyana Lee, “Song about So’g’diyona” by Nilufar Khidoyatova, compositions by Mariya Lee-Safi “Stone Composition”, products by Nadejda Shabanova “Seamstress” and others.

“In my works I use the Eastern theme quite often,” told the artist Mariya Lee-Safi. “The products I represented in the exhibition which I created inspired by the mountain landscapes of the native Uzbekistan. Thanks to my parents and artists, I do love and value every beautiful and fine our home country has, and that could find its reflection in my creativity where I can express and feelings and inner world…”

The products of sculptors displayed in the exhibition are no less attractive as well. These are “Melody” and “The Awakening of the Nature” by To’lagan Tojiho’jayev, the works of small plastic art “Grace” and “Morning Dressing” by Gulzor Sultonova, as well as ceramics “The Eastern Motif” by Rimma Gazaliyeva who reflect the seeking of artists in the field of shapes. Well-known sculptor of Uzbekistan Damir Ro’ziboyev presented for the exhibition his work “Plastics and Line” made in the technique of sculpture and graphic art.

The separate section of the exhibition consists of images of architectural monuments of Bukhoro and Samarqand. This is a series of products by Viktoriya Troshina “The Run of Time. Shohi-zinda”, as well as by Nafisa Gilmanova “Chor Minor”, “Bukhoro’s Dome”, “Old Gates” and “Ark Fortress”.

“The main objective of the exhibition is to demonstrate what is on the focus of modern artists and sculptors,” stressed the director of the Center of National Arts Elmira Ahmedova. “It includes sketches, thoughts, seeking, and experiments over the shape, line, plastics. Here one can think over, imagine. The artist shares with his sincere warmth. This is quite interesting and important…”