On November 23, the Arab World Institute in Paris opens an exhibition "The Road to Samarkand. Miracles of Silk and Gold". The exhibition will feature avant-garde works from the Savitsky Museum in Nukus @acdfuz
As Yaffa Assulin, the curator of the exhibition, notes, almost in the same years when Henri Matisse was inspired by the color and flavor of Morocco, similar processes took place in Central Asia, where the Turkestan avant-garde was born.
The still life "Kumgan" (1935) by Ural Tansykbaev distinctly resembles the works of French Fauvist artists. Ural Tansykbaev received an art education in Perm, was a student of I.I. Repin and I.S. Goryushkin-Sorokopudov.
In 1928, Tansykbaev visited the State Museum of New Western Art in Moscow. Here he saw the works of Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and other European modernists for the first time. They influenced the development of Tansykbaev as one of the leading Central Asian masters of color.
Exhibition "The Road to Samarkand. Miracles of Silk and Gold" will be held from November 23, 2022 to June 4, 2023 at the Arab World Institute in Paris.