Azamat Kuliev
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A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished Rembrandt
Progetto editoriale
Neo Art Gallery e Tangram Gallery - Roma a cura di
Giorgio Bertozzi - Roma Ferdan Yusufi - Istanbul
Coordinamento grafico editoriale
Stefano Ferracci - Roma tangram.studiografico@fastwebnet.it
© 2014 Azamat Kuliev kaysino2@mail.ru www.azamatkuliev.com © 2014 NAG Edizioni nag.edizioni@gmail.com Ai sensi della Legge 22 aprile 1941 n. 633, nessuna parte di questo volume può essere riprodotta senza il consenso scritto dell’autore e dell’editore.
www.azamatkuliev.com
Azamat Kuliev a cura di Giorgio Bertozzi e Ferdan Yusufi coordinamento grafico-editoriale Stefano Ferracci
Azamat Kuliev
(Born March 1, 1963) He is a Russian artist. Kouliev was born in Nalchik - a capital of Kabardino-Balkaria - to the family of Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. His elder brother, Alim Kouliev, is a Russian-American actor living and working in Hollywood. His eldest brother, Eldar Kuliev, is a Russian film director and screenwriter. Kouliev has been affected by his father's surroundings of artistic masters and has started to paint since his childhood. Azamat Kouliev as a student was studying artistic schools of all periods patiently and hard. His work deeply influenced by one of the greatest painters of all time Leonardo da Vinci and others Italian Renaissance painters. The Balkarian folklore theme and poetry of his father also have a reflection in Kouliev's paintings. After a graduation from high school in Nalchik where he was learning basic skills of art he moved to Leningrad and became a student of The State Academic Art School which he graduated successfully in 1981. Since that he was working at The Art Foundation inNalchik. After serving in the Soviet Army in 1986 Kouliev returned to Leningrad and studied at the Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture,formally known and subordinated within the Russian Academy of Arts,under direction of Andrei Mylnikov, (Russian: Мыльников, Андрей Андреевич), an acclaimed Russian artist, Vice-President of Russian Academy of Arts, and graduated in 1996. Since 1998 artist is living and working in Turkey. Since 2010 he is working as a lecturer at Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty.
Memento Mori Remember you are mortal… Oğuz ERTEN
Azamat Kuliev, who has been grown with a sensitivity of art coming from the family and has been painting from childhood, includes the signs and iconography of the periods like Renaissance, Baroque and the custom of Russian Academy which he has studied. The academic custom, he is connected, follows the signs of Renaissance on the one hand, on the other hand the topics he deals with include the reflections of vanities and the customs of Giorgione, Caravaggio and Velasquez. While the returns in the paintings of Azamat Kuliev, ongoing by the portrait, naturmort and religious topics, suggest us the traditional context, at the same time they emphasize the mysticism, making us feel in all painting of him. In Kuliev’s paintings the traditional art, losing its effects nowadays, comes to the forward, while the cynical figure holding a drinking glass in one hand, and a skull in the other hand, is winking by an ironic way to vanities which emphasize the inevitability of death, the transience of pleasure, the painting with the name of “Falling to Desire “is given us as a detail, is picking us off from the traditional art frame and is presenting the appearance of women in modern world perception which is joining with the traditional theme of nude women. The paintings of Kuliev both reflect the loneliness, seeking and disappearance today’s people live and carry the soul of all times with a modern realistic language.
The works
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Nu, 2006, cm 80x100, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2004, cm 65x80, oil on canvas
Nu, 2003, cm 80x90, oil on canvas
Nu, 2003, cm 60x80, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2003, cm 60x80, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2004, cm 40x90, oil and gold leaf on canvas
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Nu, 2003, cm 80x60, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2004, cm 60x80, oil and gold leaf on canvas
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Nu, 2005, cm 60x80, oil and gold leaf on canvas
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Nu, 2005, cm 65x80, oil and gold leaf on canvas
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Nu, 2002, cm 60x80, oil on canvas
Nu, 2004, cm 80x100, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2002, cm 60x80, oil on canvas
Nu, 2001, cm 40x50, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2003, cm 60x80, oil on canvas
Nu, 2002, cm 60x80, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2013, cm 80x120, oil on canvas
Dream, 2013, cm 135x180, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2005, cm 80x100, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2004, cm 65x81, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2003, cm 65x80, oil on canvas
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Nu, 2013, cm 80x180, oil and oil pastel on canvas
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Renaissance Nostaldia, 2013, cm 120x150, oil on canvas
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Caucasian Woman, 1994, cm 18x28, oil on canvas
Fairy, 2006, cm 150x120, oil on canvas
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Adam and Eva, 2001, cm 80x100, oil on canvas
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Preyer 3, 2013, cm 135x200, oil on canvas
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Jesus, 1996, cm 45x60, oil on canvas
Anxiety, cm 80x100, oil on canvas
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Jesus, 2004, cm 50x60, oil on canvas
Preyer 2, 2013, cm 80x100, oil on canvas
Preyer 1, 2013, cm 80x100, oil on canvas
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Desire to Fall, 2013, cm 107x160, oil on canvas
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Games, 2000, cm 50x60, oil on canvas
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Untitled, 2013, cm 99x130, oil on canvas
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Caucasian old woman portrait, 1982, cm 50X75, oil on canvas
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Kaysin Kuliev Portrait, 1980, cm 30x40, oil on canvas
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Self Portrait, 1992, cm 40x50, oil on canvas
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Alida Valli, 2013, 30x40, oil on canvas
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Women with Red Dress, 1995, cm 60x70, oil on canvas
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Kaysin Kuliev Portrait, 1979, cm 35x50, oil on cardboard
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Aubekir Kuliev Portrait, 1982, cm 60x80, oil on canvas
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Oya Eczac覺basi Portrait, 2012, cm 110x140, on canvas
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Girl Playing the Flute (Aliya Vodovozova), 2001, cm 50x70, oil on canvas
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Vasif Kortun portrait, 2013, cm 120x180, oil on canvas, Project of Halit Alt覺ndere
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Huseyin Alptekin portrait, 2009, cm 100x150, oil on canvas, Project of Halit Alt覺ndere
President, 2010, cm 100x150, oil on canvas, Project of Halit Alt覺ndere
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Rene Block portrait, 2012, cm 120x180,oil on canvas, Project of Halit Alt覺ndere
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Prime Minister, 2011, cm 120x180, oil on canvas, Project of Halit Alt覺ndere
First Lady, 2010, cm 100x150, oil on canva, Project of Halit Alt覺nderes
Azamat Kuliev
(Born March 1, 1963) He is a Russian artist. Kouliev was born in Nalchik - a capital of Kabardino-Balkaria to the family of Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. His elder brother, Alim Kouliev, is a Russian-American actor living and working in Hollywood. His eldest brother, Eldar Kuliev, is a Russian film director and screenwriter. Kouliev has been affected by his father's surroundings of artistic masters and has started to paint since his childhood. Azamat Kouliev as a student was studying artistic schools of all periods patiently and hard. His work deeply influenced by one of the greatest painters of all time Leonardo da Vinci and others Italian Renaissance painters. The Balkarian folklore theme and poetry of his father also have a reflection in Kouliev's paintings. After a graduation from high school in Nalchik where
he was learning basic skills of art he moved to Leningrad and became a student of The State Academic Art School which he graduated successfully in 1981. Since that he was working at The Art Foundation inNalchik. After serving in the Soviet Army in 1986 Kouliev returned to Leningrad and studied at the Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, formally known and subordinated within the Russian Academy of Arts,under direction of Andrei Mylnikov, (Russian: Мыльников, Андрей Андреевич), an acclaimed Russian artist, Vice-President of Russian Academy of Arts, and graduated in 1996. Since 1998 artist is living and working in Turkey. Since 2010 he is working as a lecturer at Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty.
Personal exhibitions
Others
1997 Memorial Museum of Kaisyn Kuliev 1997 Kabardino-Balkaria Foundation of Culture, Nalchik,Russia 1999 Aysel Gozubuyuk Sanatevi, Ankara, Turkey 2001 Galeri Selvin, Istanbul, Turkey 2001 Aysel Gozubuyuk Sanatevi, Ankara, Turkey 2005 Galeri Selvin, Ankara, Turkey 2007 Galeri Baraz, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Memorial Museum of Kaisyn Kuliev 2013 Bonart Art Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey 2014 Lombardi Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
1997-2002 Turksav Turk Dunyasi, Ankara, Turkey 1998 Region Exhibition Russian South, Krasnodar, Russia 1998 Arts ve Crasts (Fair), Ankara, Turkey 1999 Arts ve Crasts (Fair), Ankara, Turkey 1999 Gallery Nefertiti, Ankara, Turkey 2000 Museum of Arts, Nalchik, Russia 2001 Museum of Arts, Nalchik, Russia 2002 Ankart (Fair), Ankara, Turkey 2002 Artistanbul (Fair), Istanbul, Turkey 2005 Atatürk Kultur Merkezi, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Museum of Arts. Nalchik, Russia 2008 Art show (Fair), Istanbul, Turkey 2011 If I Can't Dance,It's Not My Revolution, Istanbul, Turkey, Pilot Gallery Project:Halil Altındere Curator:René Block, 2011 1. International Art Symposium, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey 2012 Infinity Has No Accent,Berlin, Germany, Tanas Gallery, Project: Halil Altındere, Curator: René Block/Barbara Heinrich, 2013 ON6 Young Artist Group and Teachers, Aysel Gozubuyuk Sanatevi, Ankara, Turkey 2013 Ironias Turcas,CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Madrid, Spain Project: Halil Altındere 2013 Together, Vista Gallery, Rome, Italy 2013 A La Salida L’arte rende omaggio ad Alida Valli e Giancarlo Zagni, Rome, Italy Curator: Giorgio Bertozzi, Daniele Goretti, Ferdan Yusufi, Gabriel Zagni 2013 Mom I Barbarian,Doruk Art Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
Partners
Galleria Lombardi Roma
A la salida
Istanbul exhibition
Memento mori
www.azamatkuliev.com
Together
Wikipedia
Azamat Kuliev (Born March 1, 1963) He is a Russian artist. Kouliev was born in Nalchik - a capital of Kabardino-Balkaria - to the family of Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. His elder brother, Alim Kouliev, is a Russian-American actor living and working in Hollywood. His eldest brother, Eldar Kuliev, is a Russian film director and screenwriter. Kouliev has been affected by his father's surroundings of artistic masters and has started to paint since his childhood. Azamat Kouliev as a student was studying artistic schools of all periods patiently and hard. His work deeply influenced by one of the greatest painters of all time Leonardo da Vinci and others Italian Renaissance painters. The Balkarian folklore theme and poetry of his father also have a reflection in Kouliev's paintings. After a graduation from high school in Nalchik where he was learning basic skills of art he moved to Leningrad and became a student of The State Academic Art School which he graduated successfully in 1981. Since that he was working at The Art Foundation inNalchik. After serving in the Soviet Army in 1986 Kouliev returned to Leningrad and studied at the Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture,formally known and subordinated within the Russian Academy of Arts,under direction of Andrei Mylnikov, (Russian: Мыльников, Андрей Андреевич), an acclaimed Russian artist, Vice-President of Russian Academy of Arts, and graduated in 1996. Since 1998 artist is living and working in Turkey. Since 2010 he is working as a lecturer at Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty.
Azamat Kuliev