1. Muhadin Kishev's art is concerned with the confirmation of beauty and the medium of his paintings is usually oil on canvas or monotype on paper, with colour as the protagonist of his art.
10 Facts About Muhadin Kishev
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Muhadin Kishev was born in 1939 in the village of Chegem II, near Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Caucasus, in the former Soviet Union.
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In 1973 Muhadin Kishev was admitted to the Union of Artists and during the first 20 years of his artistic career worked in the Monumental Arts completing projects in murals, mosaics, bas-relief and inlaid wood in the towns of Zheleznovodsk, Anapa, Pyatigorsk, Rostov and others.
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Muhadin Kishev made several professional trips to Poland, Germany, Italy, Nepal and to India.
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Muhadin Kishev travelled to Gambia, Senegal, Scotland, Belgium and France and in 1997 was elected member of the Association of Russian artists in London.
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Muhadin Kishev is a prolific artist and his paintings cover a wide range of themes, which appear in a cyclical rhythm in series such as: Destines, Cosmic Space, Homeland, Voice of the Artist, Nostalgia for Nature and many others where the overriding goal is to forge the relationship between the real and the abstract.
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Muhadin Kishev's paintings have been exhibited in important museums in Russia such as the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow: "The Power of Colour".
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Muhadin Kishev's work has been seen not only in Soviet Russia and the present day Russian Federation, but in cultural centres in London: "Andalusia in the eyes of Muhadin Kishev".
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Muhadin Kishev's paintings are to be found in Moscow in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Tretyakov State Gallery, the Foundation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Art Fund of the Russian Federation and the Gorbachev Foundation.
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Muhadin Kishev's work is in the collection of the "Ateneo" in Madrid and the Kolodzei Art Foundation, the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, USA.