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The Russian Academy of Arts presents an anniversary exhibition of works by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and People’s Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria, the oldest academician of the Southern Regional Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts Mukhadin Ismailovich Kishev "Hymn to Beauty", dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the author. The exhibition will demonstrate more than 30 works by the master, created not only in traditional techniques, but also in the latest forms of digital art.

The jubilee is an artist of exceptional creative power, a painter, graphic artist, monumentalist, and master of geometric and expressive abstraction recognized in Russia and Europe. Mukhadin Kishev’s focus on the culture of the East, the rich artistic traditions of his native Kabardino-Balkaria, and his mastery of modern Western stylistic trends had a significant impact on the formation of his figurative and plastic language.

The artist’s work, marked by great inner freedom and high artistry of execution, is an unusual fusion of styles and techniques. The author had his say in monumental and decorative art, his mosaics and intarsia were awarded high prizes. In the 80s, M. Kishev created his own technique in the art of monotype, which has a number of followers in many countries of the world. At the end of the last century, he worked in London for several years at the invitation of the famous Chisenhale workshops, and then in workshops in the south of Spain. Kishev’s searches in abstract art aesthetically and plastically echo the experiments of the masters of the "second Parisian school" and op art. However, despite the involuntary parallels that open a fascinating dialogue with the artists of previous generations, Kishev’s works always retain a bright individuality.

In his works, Mukhadin Ismailovich prefers open, rich colors that convey his admiration for the beauty of the surrounding world. The artist works in series that vary in subject matter, figurative interpretation, and technique. Images of fragile existence, dramatic standing on the edge, anxious anticipation constantly make themselves known in such series as “Longing for Nature,” “My Africa,” “My Friends,” and others. He is concerned with both events of a universal nature that occur in the modern, troubled world, problems of ecology, environmental conservation, and everyday stories that make up the lives of ordinary people.

The plastic perfection of Kishev’s canvases is revealed at different levels of artistic language: in composition, in the ratio of masses and volumes, in color, in rhythm. Everything is important - the smallest elements of the ornament, the play of tonal nuances within the spots of local color, the direction of the brushstroke and hatching, the play of texture, and finally, the color and shape of the frame. The effect of artistic, improvisational brilliance of individual paintings is achieved by months of painstaking pedantic work, when the artist puts up to thirty oil layers on the canvas, achieving the desired effect. But the quality speaks for itself: the composition is verified, the color and texture are found - the painting lives a full life. According to art critics, Kishev’s abstractions, as well as the paintings of Jean Bazin or Alfred Mannesier, are a kind of "extracts of reality". This is a visual "essence of reality" - a condensation, an intensification of subject forms. Kishev’s art seems to repeat and enhance the organic nature and beauty of the visible, confirming Jan Mukařovský’s idea that “the forms created by man do not arise differently than the forms created by nature.”

The text was prepared by the Information Department (press service) of the Russian Academy of Arts based on the article by S. S. Stupin.