Shamil Barievich Nadrov
Born in 1955 in Moscow.
In 1980, he graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. Lenin, Faculty of Art Graphics.
Works in collections
His works are in the picture gallery of Bender, Ukraine, and in private collections in Russia, Austria, Australia, Germany, USA, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and Korea.
Exhibitions and auctions
1989 Auction of Soviet Painting. Sydney, Australia;
1990 Traveling exhibition around Europe. Association 'World of Culture';
1990 Dorothea. Art auction. Vienna;
1991 Solo exhibition. Cultural Center 'Petrovskie Linii', Gallery 'Neo-Shag', Moscow;
1991 Auction. Gallery 'Drushba Narodov', Spain;
1991 ART MIF II. Moscow International Art Fair. Central Exhibition Hall 'Manege', Moscow;
1992 International Arts Festival. Fuengirola, Spain.
Critic
Shamil Nadrov creates an amazing world, full of mysteries and secrets, and so unexpectedly similar to our own. This world is a sheltered realm of life for strange little man-dolls or new feats affirmed already in the art of images. The artist easily and freely constructs the composition of his plots, capturing us with the original interpretation of the characters: ironic and naive. It is precisely in the composition that the intrigue is laid, with dramaturgy akin to theater. One cannot overlook the very painting technique of Shamil Nadrov, the variety of color and plastic forms. The brush sometimes moves strictly along the canvas plane, firmly pressing strokes onto the surface, sometimes determining a noticeably strict row of rhythmic accents, and sometimes randomly mixes strokes in a general spot, coexisting equally with others like it. This gives the paintings a distinctly theatrical quality, sensed through the display of illusion and firework effects. From here, one can draw quite a traditional conclusion about the parallelism of the worlds of reality and fantasy, the world of theatrical acts and our own truly absurd existence...
I. Ermolayev
Bibliography
Booklet 'Shamil Nadrov', Gallery 'Vernisazh';
Catalogue of the solo exhibition, 'Diaghilev Center', Moscow, 1993.
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