10.03.2016 The personal anniversary exhibition "My life - Kazakhstan" of Tamara Volkova

Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan on 10th March 2016 at 16.00 opens the personal anniversary exhibition "My life - Kazakhstan" of architect, artist, member of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan Tamara Volkova, that dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Tamara Volkova was born on 7th March, 1946 in Kyrgyzstan. She grew up and studied in the East - Kazakhstan region. She graduated the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He started working in Yaroslavl, then in Almaty. For many years she engaged in amateur painting, and now - on a professional basis. She has extensive practical and creative experience and wants to share with those who are passionate about the art. The object of her work is nature, people, architecture, city attractions, etc.

Tamara is a multifaceted artist, with rich creative personality and very diverse interests. She is in constant creative search, experimenting with forms and develops new technologies, using new materials, changing the established canons (frames). Thus, the paint began to acquire unusual properties. Sometimes we have to only imagine what it is ceramics, felt or metal? The artist has created a special technique - "terraplast". This technique allows to enrich, to complicate the surface of the painting, to enhance the brightness of images, as well as closer to the reliability of transmission, showing great richness of fabrics, jewelry ( "Girl in saukele"). T.Volkova does not get tired to learn, to improve, to grow, to achieve something new in his work. She works in a variety of styles and techniques: oil on canvas; pastel; tempera, gouache; murals, collages; terraplast; burning wood, macrame, papier-mache, wood crafts.

Each piece of T.Volkova carries a special knowledge and each of them is different grace, perfection of forms, and search for interesting composite solutions, experimental. The images of her paintings are not random and they all share a common theme. Often, the impetuses for the creation of the works are a parable, a literary text, telecast, hiking in the mountains, etc. Sometimes she brings to the canvas colorful images of dreams. One of the favorite topics of artist is archaic rock paintings of Tamgaly, which prompted the artist to write a series of works depicting petroglyphs ("Sacred Stones", "Petroglyphs of Kazakhstan", "Composition with solar deity-1").

Tamara Volkova - participant of international exhibitions: Spain, Italy, Portugal, England, Russia and Brazil. Her works are in galleries and private collections both near and far abroad. As an architect, T.Volkova actively participated in a number of architectural exhibitions in Yaroslavl, exhibitions of the Union of Architects of Kazakhstan, won prizes at zonal parades creativity of young architects of the Russian Federation. Tamara is the winner of the USSR Council of Ministers Prize in the group of architects CNIIEP Grado, Moscow. She is the author of major projects - a historical and architectural support plan of Almaty and Ust-Kamennogorsk. According to her projects were built an office building in the city of Yaroslavl, hotel with restaurant in Pereslavl Zalessky, reconstruction of residential housing of «Ок-Жетпес» sanatorium and many others.

Some of the works of one and a half thousand collection created for the entire period of its many years of creative activity (more than 60 paintings) will be presented.

The exhibition runs until 24th March, 2016.