Damir Ishemgulov. "The warmth of the native land"

The project was implemented using a grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Fund

“The Warmth of the Native Land” is the project of the Borey Gallery, which presents an exhibition of paintings and graphic works by the painter, graphic artist, sculptor, member of the Union of Artists of Russia, People’s Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan Damir Ishemgulov. The exhibition is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the artist. The exhibition will feature graphic and pictorial works of the 1960–2000s, in total about 80 exhibits.

Damir Ishemgulov is a special phenomenon not only in the Bashkir, but also in the Russian art space. His paintings are simple stories about the village, about the beauty and dignity of its inhabitants, about the spiritual values of the people. At first glance, the chamber theme of the exhibition - native places, native village - thanks to the talent and scale of the artist’s personality, grows into a poem about the Motherland. The work of Damir Nuritdinovich, inextricably linked with the traditions of the Russian avant-garde, especially with the non-primitivism of M.F. Larionov and N.S. Goncharova, is inherently original in its spirit. A man, his hard work, rare moments of rest, daily affairs and worries, earthly joys, even details that seem insignificant at first glance, of a simple rural life, take on the significance of the event, and the unity of these events - life - is the true content of the epic narrative that the artist leads. His paintings are a kind of parable - he does not illustrate events, but creates a kind of ideally sublime model of folk life, to which mythological imagery is added and something archaic, close to folklore, is felt.

Ishemgulov Damir Nuritdinovich

People’s Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2014).
Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2001).
Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1993.
Member of the art group "Sary Biya" (1989-1993).
Member of the creative group “Inzer” (1989–1993).
Member of the creative association "Artysh" since 1995.
The diploma of the II degree of the Interregional exhibition "Ural - XI" (2013, Tyumen).

Born in 1943 in the village of Maloe Abishevo, Khaibullinsky District, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

He received his special education at the art and pedagogical department (now - the art department) of the Ufa College of Arts (1967-1971).

In 1994–2010, he was a teacher in the art department of the Ufa College of Arts.

In 1989, he was one of the initiators of the creation and organizers of the Sary Biya art group, and in 1995, the Artysh creative association.

Since 1986 - an exhibitor of republican, including special (arts and crafts), zonal, regional, All-Russian, international, foreign and group exhibitions.

Among the largest exhibition projects are exhibitions of the Sary Biya art group in Moscow (1989, 1991), Ufa (1989), Chelyabinsk (1990), Yoshkar-Ola (Mari El Republic, 1992), Novosibirsk (1993), and exhibitions of the creative group "Inzer" in Ufa (1989, 1990), Moscow (1991), a joint exhibition project of the creative groups "Mart" and "Inzer" "Voyage" in Moscow, Paris and New York (1992), an exhibition of artists of Bashkortostan in Salzburg (1992), Vienna (1993), Moscow (Russian Academy of Arts, 1994, 1997), St. Petersburg (2001), an exhibition of Ufa artists at the Ester Gallery (Yekaterinburg, 1993), you showcases of the Artysh creative association in Ufa (1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002), Orenburg (1996), Magnitogorsk (1996), Sibay (RB, 1996), Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny (RT, 1997), First Conceptual Exhibition works of artists of Bashkortostan "The Shining of the Moon" (Ufa, 2001), The fourth exhibition of the Republican project "Professional decorative and applied art of Bashkortostan" (Ufa, 2014–2015). In 2015, 2017 - an exhibitor at the exhibitions of the International Art Forum "ART UFA" (VDNH-EXPO). Personal exhibitions and copyright modules were exhibited in Ufa.

The works of Damir Ishemgulov are stored in the Bashkir State Art Museum. M.V. Nesterova, Ural Gallery of Folk Art (Ufa), Tuimazinsk Museum of History and Local Lore (RB), Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (Moscow), Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Republican Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Mari El (Yoshkar-Ola), Gallery "Ester" (Yekaterinburg), in private collections in Russia and abroad (Austria, Germany, USA, Finland, France).