Kazakhstani artists participate in the international exhibition in Tashkent - the Biennale of Applied Art under the motto "Globalization and preservation of national traditions: choosing a path"

On October 16, the annual international exhibition of the Biennale of Applied Art under the motto "Globalization and preservation of national traditions: choosing a path" started in Tashkent.

The participants are 30 masters from 12 countries, including France, Italy, India, Japan, Egypt, Russia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries.

During the official opening ceremony of the exhibition, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Uzbekistan Beibut Atamkulov delivered a congratulatory speech.

Kazakhstan is represented by artist and gallerist, knight of the Order, "Kurmet" Leyla Mahat, with an unusual and fascinating project "Mother's handkerchief". The project consists of shawls of women and their mothers from all over the world. The collection already has about 400 handkerchiefs collected by the artist.

For reference: Leyla Bolatovna Mahat is an associate professor of the Department of Painting and Sculpture of the Kazakh National University of Arts, Professor of Philosophy in the field of Fine Arts, Chairman of the Curatorial Council of the Kulanshi Center for Contemporary Art, President of the Eurasian Academy of Arts.

Another participant of the exhibition is a Kazakhstani Serzhan Bashirov – an artist, a master of decorative and applied arts, a jeweler, a collector.

The artist presents works of art made of silver, copper, bronze, wood, bone and stones. Each component of the product carries the sacred meaning of the customs and traditions of the nomadic lifestyle of the ancestors.