Participants of the exhibition:
Tolonov Yrysbai
Samidinov Almasbek
Myrzaev Abdusamat
Urmanov Ismail
In the early 1990s, in the production workshops of the City Art Fund, a group of artists working in a new way, creating unique paintings and graphics was formed. The undoubted leader of the group was Kadyrzhan Turgunov (1950-1994), who passed away early. The distinctive features of the works of this group are the palette imbued with sunny color, and a form dictated by the southern temperament. Along with the perestroika-era
“New Wave”, the School of Southern Transavanguard is the most vivid phenomenon in the visual arts of the Kyrgyz Republic. Now the society faces a real problem: religion and painting. How will they coexist? Is it possible? How to develop further?
Here painters are in the forefront of the struggle for art. In deed, not in words. The artists of the School of the Southern Transavantgarde take real risks and believe and make new painting. Defending their beliefs and winning.
What is the uniqueness of the pictorial language of the School of Southern Transavanguard?
- First of all, the South is a place of confluence of many cultures: Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Russian. We can say that the plastic language of the South is an international plastic language, a language of plurality, difference, heterogeneity, symbiosis of several cultures.
- Secondly, the Schools of Southern Transavanguard is our tradition! These are the works of Aman Asrankulov, Kadyrzhan Turgunov, Batyr Jaliyev and many others.
- Thirdly, the School of Southern Transavanguard is the art of the unconscious.
Both Asrankulov and Turgunov loved strangeness. They understood: it was more honest in Soviet times. The strangeness remained as a great commitment to a grotesque perception of reality, without any indulgence in the tastes of the overbearing philistines.
All the works in the exhibition, more than 30 works, are part of the TOLON MUSEUM collection