Symbiosis of Swiss and Kazakh painting. A unique exhibition has opened in Kazakhstan’s capital with the works of two different, both in age and mentality, artists – Harold Studer and Yuliya Moskalenko. The graphic works of the foreign master complemented the self-portrait collages and paintings of the Kazakh artist. According to the organizers, in order to understand the symbolic dialogue of the artists, it is necessary to be a prepared spectator and to have the courage to recognize the acuteness of their emotions. The exposition is presented as part of the annual project “Dialogue of Arts”. Its main goal is to combine Kazakh and foreign contemporary painting.
“Two very different, at first glance, artists. Firstly, Harold Studer is much older, this is a different generation. He was engaged in lithography. This is a different world, a different time, a different country. Yuliya Moskalenko represents modern Kazakhstan, a new school, new trends in contemporary art. On the one hand, these are very different and dissimilar things, and on the other hand, they are about the same thing, because they talk about the sacred world, about spiritual values, about how fragile a person is,” said exhibition curator Leyla Mahat.
“My works are an attempt to realize what is happening in general. We always do not understand what is going on. A modern world with a bunch of applications, social media. I tried to express in my works that we are constantly being attacked. But we do not perceive this as something unusual. This is our ordinary world,” the artist Yuliya Moskalenko shared.
Translation by Saniya Sakenova
Editing by Galiya Khassenkhanova
