The Bonum Factum Gallery, with the support of the Swiss Embassy in Uzbekistan, shall open the collective exhibition of painters of the Sarikor project in the Tashkent House of Photography on July 1, 2023.
The gallery's experience in work with modern painters, conducting expeditions and travelling exhibitions in the regions of Uzbekistan inspired implementation of practical workshops for professional painters from the leading craftsmen of Uzbekistan.
Modern painters, most often, have no idea of the process of creation of various materials or have not been involved in this process. This project provides an opportunity to put modern painters wise of the handicraft skills, thereby expanding the field for experimental art practice.
Project milestones:
1) practical workshops and lectures (April-May 2023)
2) product preparation (June 2023)
3) project presentation in the format of the exhibition-show (July 2023)
From the origin to new forms of visuality.
The idea is the most important incentive for creative experiment. Today, modern painter uses hi-tech materials and digital technologies, is engaged in installations and performance, widely applying immersive techniques in creative work.
The cultural value of the project is intertwined with the study of unique traditional and modern values, as well as the unique heritage of regional art-and-craft schools as an opportunity to rethink and to promote the ideas of modern painters.
The Sarikor project, with an emphasis on local relations, painters' orientation to the environment and to the art of co-participation, cultural centres that take into account context and challenges of the time, has become a reference point that has managed today to unite modern painters with the best traditional craftsmen for some kind of "reissue" of tradition, expanding it, including the experience of the current, full of global collisions technological culture.
The unique synthesis of various arts and crafts.
Craftsmen and painters collaboration was initiated in order to exchange knowledge and experience, to understand and to master new form and plasticity of handicraft and its integration with modern artistic methods.
Traditions interaction with genres of the arts of design in the modern artistic space provides more opportunities for creative personal expression.
The works created for the exhibition are a synthesis of heritage and modernity, made using various techniques and materials of widely known art-and-craft schools in various regions of Uzbekistan:
Fergana region
Textiles: House-Workshop of Rasuldzhon Mirzaakhmedov, Margilan
Ceramics: Workshop of Alisher Nazirov, Rishtan
Samarkand region
Paper: Paper mill "Meros", Master Zarif Mukhtorov, Samarkand, settlement Konigil Workshop of Master Mehroj Bobomurodov, Konigil, Samrakand
Bukhara
Ceramics: Workshop of Abdulvakhid Karimov (Bukhoriy)
As a result, modern artists gained unusual experience of study and interaction, enriched, interpreted in a new way, gained one more degree of freedom due to development and transformation of own artistic language.
