Artist Saltanat Sadibekova presents joy of life in Astana Exhibition

Saltanat Sadibekova demonstrated artistic ability at an early age and developed it while at the Almaty children's art school and further in the Zhurgenev Kazakh State Institute of Theatre and Cinema, which she completed in 1995. She held her first solo exhibition in Almaty, her native city, in 2002. Since then, her works were regularly seen at personal, national, and international exhibitions. Her first exhibition in Astana was organised in 2003, the press service of the Kazakh MFA reports.

"Today's opening is kind of a new start after my five year leave," Sadibekova said at the opening. Her previous solo exhibition was held in 2006 in Almaty, after which she undertook the duties of a wife and a mother. Saltanat gave her special thanks to the gallery, since "having a place for exhibition is a very encouraging factor for an artist."

The exhibition shows that Sadibekova experiments a lot and is in constant search for novelties and new techniques, Zhanna Yensebayeva, director of the gallery, said. "We called our exhibition "Joy of Life" because the artist abounds with this joy, she works with it, and it is present in each of her paintings," she added.

These paintings, however, also demonstrate the artist's professionalism, in addition to her inner world, according to the expert and art historian from the Kasteev Museum of Arts in Almaty Mariya Kopeliovich. "Contemplating Sadibekova's works, one is always surprised by the diversity of the artist's manner of writing and her interests."

Sadibekova knows well the stylistic features of post-impressionism, modernism, and postmodernism, and is equally good with contemporary and ultramodern art. She confidently uses Paul Gauguin's cloisonné, which is demonstrated in paintings such as "Almaty, Medeo," "Almaty, Café Solyanka," "Folk Instruments." In works like "Moonlight Rendezvous," "Dome," "Oriental tale," the artist used methods and manners of the miniaturist style. Some paintings, such as "Almaty's Glavpochtamt building," "Green still life," remind Van Gogh.

Moreover, subjects of some of Saltanat's works reveal her interest in traditional Kazakh arts and crafts. Many complex concepts are fused in the works of Sadibekova into a coherent whole, which is deep in fact and easy to perceive, Mariya Kopeliovich thinks.

"Saltanat surprises us with her positive energy, hard work, nonstandard perception of the world, and multifaceted creativity that aims towards her ideals and perfection, which is so obviously necessary in modern society," Kapeliovich said.

In addition to her solo exhibitions in Almaty and Astana, Saltanat's works were presented in various exhibitions in China and Italy, while her paintings found place in private collections in Kazakhstan, Turkey, the United States, France, Italy, and other states.