Kishev, Mukhadin Ismailovich

Kishev was born on December 18, 1939 in the village of Chegem-2 , near the city of Nalchik , the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria . His father Ismail Kazhev died in the battle of Stalingrad in 1943. Mother Marusya Isufovna Kiseva alone raised her son, and in the difficult post-war years she supported his dream of becoming an artist. The first exhibition of the artist took place at the age of eleven in the school library, where he presented portraits of Russian writers Dostoevsky , Gogol and others. The librarian of the school Zoya Elgarova organized this exhibition. At the age of thirteen, Mukhadin began studying in the art circle of a talented teacher Andrei Lukich Tkachenko in the House of Pioneers in Nalchik. Every Sunday I went to classes on foot fourteen kilometers from his home. In his native village he graduated from high school. In 1958 he entered the Krasnodar Art School , and then in the Kuban State University at the Graphic Art Faculty, which he graduated in 1965. Both schools graduated perfectly. Simultaneously with his studies at the university, he graduated from the flight courses at the Krasnodar flying club ( Enem village).

After graduation in 1965, he worked at the Art Fund of the CBD. During the first 20 years of his creative work he worked in monumental art, performing projects on murals, mosaics, bas-reliefs and inlays in the cities of Zheleznovodsk , Anapa , Pyatigorsk , Rostov-on-Don , etc. There were many government orders from the USSR Ministry of Health . ^[3] In 1973, Kishev was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR . He made several professional trips to Poland, Germany, Italy, Nepal and India. In 1988–1991, he was the artistic director of young professional artists of Russia in the houses of creative artists Hot Key on the Black Sea and Baikal on Lake Baikal , where he used the relaxed atmosphere of perestroika to encourage young artists to work with great freedom. There he became an example of a generation of talented artists who now exhibit their work around the world. In 1993 he was accepted into the International Union of Artists. From 1994 to 1998, at the invitation of renowned Chisenheil workshops, he worked at in London. He traveled to Belgium, the Gambia, Senegal, France, and Scotland. Only from 1972 to 2000, Kishev went on creative trips to 18 countries of the world. In 1997 he was elected a member of the Association of Russian Artists in London. During his more than 55-year career, he took part in about 80 group exhibitions and over 40 solo exhibitions. From 1998 to the present, she lives and works in Spain, in her studio in Los Caños de Meca ( ) in the province of . ^[four]

Kisev’s life and art is a fusion of East and West, and Spain has had a noticeable influence on his work. Kishev does searches in various techniques, including oil on canvas and monotypes on paper. He masterfully uses color and light. Kishev writes a lot, his paintings cover a wide range of topics that appear in the cyclical rhythm of the series, such as: "Destiny", "Outer space", "Motherland", "Artist's Voice", "Nostalgia in Nature" and many others, where the main the goal is to build a relationship between the real and the abstract.

Since the beginning of the creative work, Kishev has been shown at more than 40 solo exhibitions and participated in many collective ones. His paintings were exhibited in major museums of the USSR and Russia, such as:

• Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow: “The Power of Color”. Moscow Museum of Modern Art; ^[five]
• Kabardino-Balkarian Museum of Fine Arts, Nalchik: Jubilee exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of creativity and the 60th anniversary of the USSR, Kabardino-Balkarian Museum of Fine Arts, Nalchik; ^[6]
• State Museum of the Peoples of the East, Maikop, Adygea;
• Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow: "Window to Europe"; ^[7]
• in other galleries and exhibition centers. ^[eight]

His works were noticed not only in Soviet Russia and the modern Russian Federation, but also in the cultural centers of Europe:

• Instituto Cervantes, London: "Andalusia in the Eyes of Muhadin Kisev"; ^[9]
• Russian Center of Culture, Pushkin House, London and Spain: “Muhadin Kishev and Andalusia”; ^[ten]
• Sala Juan Miro, Palace of Congresses, Madrid: "Circle, triangle, square and dot in abstract art", "Spaces"; ^[eleven]
• University of Malaga, Spain: “Around the Circle”; ^[12]
• three simultaneous exhibitions sponsored by the University of Cadiz, the Culture Foundation and the Benot Gallery, Cadiz, Spain: “From the Caucasus to Andalusia”. ^[13]

Kishev's paintings can be found in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art , the State Tretyakov Gallery , the Foundation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Foundation of Arts of the Russian Federation, the Gorbachev Foundation . In the Kabardino-Balkarian Museum of Fine Arts named after A.L. Tkachenko in Nalchik there is a large collection of his works of the Soviet period, as well as in many other museums of Russia: Krasnodar, Tobolsk, Maykop, Makhachkala, Kislovodsk and others. His works are also in the Athenaeum collection ( ) in Madrid and in the support fund for contemporary Russian visual art, the USA ( Kolodzei Art Foundation ). More than 300 Kishev canvases are in private collections in Russia, Britain, Spain, Germany, Iceland, Poland, Finland, France, USA, Latin America, Brazil, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the former Soviet republics and other countries of the world.

• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
• People's Artist of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.
• Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, South Regional Department, specialization: painter (2009).
• Academician of the Adyghe (Circassian) International Academy of Sciences (AMAN), KBR.
• Medal "For Valiant Labor", in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin (1970).
• Winner of the Leninsky Komsomol Prize in Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik
• Academician in the field of art of the International Academy of Science, Technology and Humanities (MIASTFP) in Valencia (Spain).
• Member of the European Academy of Arts (Belgium).
• Gold medal "300th anniversary of the Victory over the Crimean Tatars" for the painting "The Battle of Kanzhal" (2008, CBD, see illustration).
• Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for the Power of Color exhibition, Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
• Gold medal "Shuvalov" of the Russian Academy of Arts for the exhibition "Hymn to Beauty".
• Gold Medal "For outstanding achievements" of the Russian Academy of Arts for the anniversary exhibition "Hymn to Beauty" in the Central House of Artists, Moscow (2015).

• Festive concert in Kabardino-Balkaria . 1967. 90x180. Wood, intarsia. Kabardino-Balkarian Museum of Fine Arts, Nalchik .
• Sea tale. 1970. 9 × 20 m. Mosaic. The swimming pool in the government of the sanatorium "Oak Grove", Zheleznovodsk .
• Collectivization. 1983. 95x130. Canvas, Mapsloe. Kabardino-Balkarian Museum of Fine Arts, Nalchik .
• The end. 2002. 80x100. Canvas, oil. Moscow Museum of Modern Art .
• Black sunrise 2002. 100x80. Canvas, oil. Archive of the artist.
• Happiness. 2003. 114x146. Canvas, oil. Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation . USA.
• Cycle: Beslan's bloody windows. September 3, 2004. Paper, acrylic. Museum of Memory, Beslan .
• You can’t kill your soul: Jewish tragedy. 2005. 100x200. Canvas, acrylic. Archive of the artist.
• Andalusian abundance. 2007. 130x195. Canvas, oil. Archive of the artist.
• Two roads. 2007. 130x195. Canvas, oil. Archive of the artist.
• Kanzhalskaya battle. 2008. 140x280. Canvas, oil. Archive of the artist.

Books

• Kotlyarova MA, Kotlyarov V. N. Adygi - hearts and destinies: portraits, notes. Nalchik: Polygraphservice and T, 2002. 200 p.
• Kotlyarova M. A., Kotlyarov V. N. The palms reach out to the fire of my soul ...: A book about Muhadin Kishev and Jacqueline Moss. Nalchik: Polygraphservice and T, 2002. 304 p.
• Kotlyarova M. A., Kotlyarov V. N. The palms reach out to the fire of my soul ...: A book about Muhadin Kishev and Jacqueline Moss. 2nd ed., Ext. Nalchik: Polygraphservice and T, 2004. 328 p. ISBN 5-93680-124-1 .
• Muhadin Kishev. Hymn to beauty / Muhadin Kishev: A Hymn to Beauty. Moscow, 2009. 336 p. ISBN 5-900395-11-1
• Stupin SS .. Muhadin Kishev. The Art of Love / Muhadin Kishev. The Art of Love. Moscow, BuksMart, 2016. 304 p. ISBN 978-5-906190-33-8 .

Articles

• Aydinyan S. A. In the color spaces of Mukhadin Kishev // Patron and world. No. 14-16. http://www.mecenat-and-world.ru/14-16/kishev.htm
• Paredes T. Muhadin Kishev: Del Cáucaso a Andalucía // El Punto de las Artes. Madrid, 2001. 24 June.
• Adashevskaya L. The Enchanted Wanderer // Decorative Art. M., 2003. April. No. 5-6. Pp. 82-83.
• Appaeva J. Through the years and distances // Decorative art. M., 2003. April. No. 5-6. Pp. 80-81.
• Konchin E. The Power of Color // Culture. M., 2005. October 13-19. No. 40
• Kishev M. We need an artistic council // Art in the Modern World. Sat articles. M., 2006. Vol. 2
• Makhov N. The space of the soul - the space of the world // Decorative art. M., 2006. № 2. S. 53-56.
• Vanslov V. V. Singing beauty (about the work of Mukhadin Kisev) // Art in the modern world. M., 2009. Vol. 3. pp. 120-126.
• Mukhadin Kishev: About Art and a little about yourself (from the conversation of the artist with A. V. Gamlitsky) // Art in the modern world. M., 2009. Vol. 3. P. 168-175.
• Gamlitsky A.V. Mukhadin Kishev: The path to beauty is the road to yourself. Creativity of the Soviet period 1965-1993 // Hymn to beauty. M 2009. pp. 120-126. ISBN 5-900395-11-1