Kazakh Artist Promotes History and Beauty Through His Tapestries

ASTANA – Kazakh artist Omirkeldy Abeuov, 74, created greater than 60 wooden and bone artworks and contributed to the event of wooden artwork in Kazakhstan, however above all, he’s creating patterned mats and tapestries.

Omirkeldy Abeuov exhibits his art work. Picture credit score: inform.kz

His works have been exhibited in Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic.

Abeuov is an honorary citizen of Balkhash metropolis, and a member of the Kazakh Union of Artists. His works embellish the interiors of instructional, medical and cultural establishments and are exhibited in Astana and Karagandy.

Abeuov exhibits the way in which he makes tapestries. Picture credit score: inform.kz

Born in 1948 in Konyrat village within the Karagandy Area, he labored on the Konyrat mine after graduating from college. He entered the Almaty Faculty of Ornamental and Utilized Arts named after Oral Tansykbayev in 1972.

“After graduating from school, I returned to Balkhash, the place I started to work as a painter decorator within the Balkhash department of the Karagandy regional artwork studio. I inherited expertise from my father and brothers. All of them have been actual masters of the woodwork and have been in a position to create masterpieces from common gadgets,” mentioned Abeuov in an interview with Saryarqa TV channel.

One in all Abeuov’s works. Picture credit score: inform.kz

Up to now, the artist’s home has change into just like a tapestry museum laden additionally with  wooden and bone sculptures. 

Abeuov famous it takes typically a number of months to create the works. He first attracts sketches on paper after which knits them on the material with silk thread.

“I put my complete coronary heart after I create tapestries. It’s an extremely thorough course of and requires a whole lot of effort and time. The famine of the Nineteen Thirties, the merciless warfare, and the occasions in Zhanaozen turned the premise of my works. I additionally tried to convey the great thing about the Kazakh steppe in different compositions,” mentioned the artist.

One in all Abeuov’s works. Picture credit score: inform.kz

“For Peace on Earth” triptych, “Metallurgists,” “Uyadan ushkanda” (Leaving the nest) and “Ereuil atka er salmai” (Till you saddle up the horse) compositions, “New Period” tapestry devoted to the nation’s first astronaut Toktar Aubakirov and “Below the sky, above the earth” diptych are among the many most well-known works of the artist.