Turkmen Picasso - Mammed Yarmammedov
December 10, 2017 | 12:10 |400
If the world consists of chaos (at least, as some philosophers asserted), then the artist Mammed Yarmammedov gave birth to his own chaos, enclosed in a certain format. These are shapes that are pushed in the planes, colors that are inscribed in geometric volumes (although this is harmony as antipode to chaos). Is not this the reflection of our being? The exhibition of his works in the Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan became an eloquent response to this question.Guljan Garaeva
He was born in 1972 in Ashgabat, in a creative family. His father Klychmurad Yarmammedov is an outstanding Turkmen sculptor. And, of course, this fact left an imprint on the choice of profession. Telling the truth, even in the junior classes Mammed passed the selection to a ballet school, but ... he was still in an art school.
In 1992, he entered the Tashkent Art Institute, where he began to draw his first series of paintings. His favorite artists were Picasso, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. Their works helped him to form his own style.
Yarmammedov considers himself as a realist on canvas. His creative credo is to see all the beauty in the simplest and most intimate environment. Unordinary submission, free treatment of canons of traditional art is in his manner. He does not focus on successful finds and solutions, but seeks new ways of expressing his vision for this and another world.
In his compositions, balancing too close to the foul, each element occupies the only possible place, so that the structure does not break up like a house of cards. The endless change of color scales keeps fluid, like time, elusive, like sunlight at sunset, balance. Bright colors make their way through the dark contours of the figure, and the radiant images are muffled by dull shades. The form, color and tone are the main pillars of classical painting - they have not disappeared anywhere, but have been moved to another dimension.
The works of Yarmammedov resemble rock paintings. The pieces of Turkmen embroidery, carpet patterns appear in his canvases, give them a common rhythm. The motives of national applied art are almost the characters of the paintings that tell about the traditions of the Turkmen people.
For example, the idea to draw a series of paintings “Nohur” came to the artist, when he and his students went to the village of Nohur for practice. Inspiration is as an appetite coming during creativity. He was inspired by an unusually beautiful nature, the simplicity of rural life, in which much of the old way of life was preserved.
Another series of paintings is “Still Life”. The author breaks down the stereotypes in drawing objects, shows a completely different way of their image from different perspectives. Also, color harmony and disharmony are shown in the paintings. It seems the author binds the composition, not allowing it to spread beyond the canvas. His paintings are not only and not just a color, but the tone balance, where objects keep their warmth from external colds.
Paintings of Yarmammedov attract the attention of connoisseurs not only in our country, but also abroad. They are interested by their uncommonness, mild mystery, and at the same time they reflect the national identity, the “salt” of their native land.
