Mardjani Foundation
The exhibition presenting the work of Anvar Shakirovich Kashaev, Honoured Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan, features over forty paintings and graphic works created from the late 1970s to 2026, drawn from the artist's own collection and the Mardjani Foundation collection.
The artist draws inspiration from the quiet, calm, and serene nature of his native village of Akbulatovo – with its endless fields and dense forests, rolling hills, birch and oak groves. "These places are the dearest and most beloved to me. Nowhere else can I feel the way I do there. My entire childhood was spent in this village, and it is an inseparable part of my soul," says the artist.
Anvar Kashaev's style is distinguished by a restrained yet remarkably expressive manner of painting. The artist works predominantly in a muted pastel palette, building his colour schemes on soft combinations of silvery, yellow-ochre, greenish-brown, and bluish-lilac tones. His painting is like "satin-stitch embroidery," where each brushstroke becomes a thread of feeling.
Landscape is Kashaev's favourite genre, yet his oeuvre is not limited to images of nature. The theme of motherhood runs through his art as a confession, while his dedications to Vysotsky, Tarkovsky, Shukshin, and Mozart create dramatic "portraits of states of the soul." A separate section is devoted to graphic works, including the cycle "The Life of a Poet," accompanied by the artist's own poems in the Bashkir language, and an original artist's book dedicated to Gabdulla Tukay.
The artist draws inspiration from the quiet, calm, and serene nature of his native village of Akbulatovo – with its endless fields and dense forests, rolling hills, birch and oak groves. "These places are the dearest and most beloved to me. Nowhere else can I feel the way I do there. My entire childhood was spent in this village, and it is an inseparable part of my soul," says the artist.
Anvar Kashaev's style is distinguished by a restrained yet remarkably expressive manner of painting. The artist works predominantly in a muted pastel palette, building his colour schemes on soft combinations of silvery, yellow-ochre, greenish-brown, and bluish-lilac tones. His painting is like "satin-stitch embroidery," where each brushstroke becomes a thread of feeling.
Landscape is Kashaev's favourite genre, yet his oeuvre is not limited to images of nature. The theme of motherhood runs through his art as a confession, while his dedications to Vysotsky, Tarkovsky, Shukshin, and Mozart create dramatic "portraits of states of the soul." A separate section is devoted to graphic works, including the cycle "The Life of a Poet," accompanied by the artist's own poems in the Bashkir language, and an original artist's book dedicated to Gabdulla Tukay.
Organizers and participants
State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan / National Art Gallery "Khazine", The Mardjani Foundation