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Alfiz Sabirov. Ayu bala

Exhibition August 4 − October 3, 2021
The State Museum of Oriental Arts presents the sculptor's exhibition Alfiza Sabirova "Ayu bala".

Visitors will see more than eighty works by the artist - sculptures in bronze and plaster, jewelry, graphic sheets, carpets.

Alfiz Sabirov has created his own mythology, which is elaborated in detail and embodied in a multitude of images. It is a world of gods and warriors, oriental princesses and animal-totems born in the artist's imagination. Alfiz Sabirov's works differ in the diversity of forms and volumes, in unexpected combinations of materials and textures. The master sticks colored drops of semi-precious stones into the bronze, sews the bronze "Stone of the Ancestors" with red threads, paints the lips of the goddess Sau he invented with bright red lipstick. His horses, leopards and other animals that figure in the most ancient Turkic philosophy, Tengriism, are endowed with new magical properties and sometimes get new names. Hence the title of the exhibition, in honour of the author's sculpture of the same name, "Ayu bala", translated from Turkic as "child of the bear".

Prepared according to the materials of the website State Museum of Oriental Art.