Contemplation²

Exhibition June 13 − July 7
Contemplation2, an exhibition of two Ossetian artists. The gallery halls present paintings and graphic works by Ibragim Shanayev and bronze sculptures by Bilar Tsarikayev.

Ibragim Shanaev graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1999, participant of numerous Russian and foreign exhibitions.
The paintings and graphic works of Ibragim Shanayev presented at the exhibition "Contemplation2" are the evidence of the long journey of the amazing artist to his special creative language. The surrounding world, every event, every object, nature is filled with invisible essence. The artist reveals this essence through colors, arrangement of lines and spots, through abstract forms. The style of artist Ibragim Shanayev is a rich fruit of natural temperament and almost mathematical creative analysis. Strongly built canvases and graphic sheets carry high energy, saturated with creative emotions that cannot fail to resonate.

Bilar Tsarikayev is one of the most gifted contemporary Ossetian sculptors, raising Ossetian plastic art to the level of world achievements. He is a member of the sculpture section of the Moscow Union of Artists and a member of the Association of Moscow Sculptors.
The exposition of the exhibition "Contemplation2" presents more than two dozen bronze works by the master. Bilar Tsarikayev's works are extraordinary and paradoxical in concept and form. They are fabulous, intricate, metaphorical. The sculptor created a unique pantheon of mythical characters - St. George the Victorious, the Ossetian deity of fertility and hunting "Afsati", totem animals and others. Tsarikayev's characters have a grotesque appearance and a special attractive power. The artist invented his own sculptural form, a single substance. The continuous form penetrates all sculptures, all subjects.
Bilar Tsarikayev has no works with subjects related to modern life; he prefers mythological, symbolic and religious themes. By transforming traditional subjects, the master creates his own exotic epic.