Ibis Hotel, Dubai, is hosting yet another exhilarating art exhibition and this time around it’s for Kazakhstani artist Andrei Noda and his breath-taking collection that has toured the world.
Exhibiting Andrei Noda’s work is part of Le Gourmand’s initiative to support emerging talents and local artists, a role the hotel has been playing exceedingly well.
Born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1962, Noda graduated from Zhurgenov State Institute of Theatre and Arts in 1988. In a period spanning twenty years, Noda created more than 1,000 art works in different styles and techniques varying between paintings, graphic art, photo-art, ceramics etc.
But Noda was not always a painter. At least, he did not grow up as one. In his early years, he was a gifted wrestler and was training to participate in the Soviet Union Olympic team. After graduation, the young artist lived for years in steppe towns, painting and working as an art teacher.
It is these years of living amid such surroundings that has profoundly shaped his style for the essential that grows from being in vast open spaces. Andrei Noda’s work reached global recognition in native Kazakhstan and several of his pictures have their place in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern Art in Almaty.
His works have been exhibited widely, both in Europe and America, and they have been acquired in private collections all over the world. After a period of living and working in Portland, Oregon, he returned to his native country, settling down in a mountain village near Almaty.
In his mountain atelier, he continues to be productive as ever, in the manner of an honest and uncompromising craftsman pursuing the true image of man – the image that would unveil the bare facts of being, nothing less and nothing more.
Le gourmand opened its doors to Andrei Noda’s works on 4th January and will welcome interested art lovers until 5th March 2007.
