USEUM has partnered with Le Dame Art Gallery operating between London (UK) and Capri (Italy), to bring emerging talent in the areas of painting and illustration to the heart of the Art World in London. Le Dame Art Gallery will be exhibiting in various events the best of USEUM’s thousands of contemporary artists from 100 countries around the world. We are hosting USEUM's first ever gallery event on Tuesday the 6th of October at 6.30pm and the exhibition will be on display for one month on the first floor of the prestigious Meliã White House 5-star hotel in Regent’s Park.
This collection is comprised by the 23 artworks exhibited by USEUM and Le Dame Art Gallery, on the first floor of Meliã White House from the 7th of October to the 7th of November and by many more artworks that were very close to be selected.
Anxiety 2013
Oil on canvas · 100 x 80 cm
£8,900
While teaching at the Anaduolu University in Istanbul Azamat Kuliev encountered and observed many female students, professors and clerks. In their eyes Kuliev recognised something that he never notices in the eyes of children or men: worries of mothers, sisters and wives. ‘I could almost feel the pain or anxiety for their close ones,’ the artist explains. He believes that this is exactly what is keeping today’s mad world, full of aggression and war, in balance.
About the Artist: Azamat Kuliev (1963) studied painting under B.V. Johansson at the St. Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum. He continued his studies at the Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture’s department of painting. Kuliev’s portraits in oil paint vary from highly realistic, almost photographical, portrayals of contemporary curators to works in which he brings the expertise of the old masters into the present. Kuliev lives in Istanbul, where he works as a lecturer at the Anadolu University. His works have been exhibited through- out Russia and Turkey, as well as in shows in Italy, Spain and the United States.
text by Jesse Voetman