Cast sculptures from Dasha Namdakov. Buryat genius - Dashi Namdakov

Dashi Namdakov (Dashinima Balzhanovich Namdakov) (b. 1967, the village of Ukurik, Chita Region) is a Russian sculptor, artist, jeweler, member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Dashi Namdakov was born in the Buryat village of Ukurik, in Transbaikalia. Full name - Dashinima ("Dashi Nima") - "Lucky Sun". He was the sixth child in the large family of Balzhan and Buda-Khanda Namdakov, who had eight children.

The family of D. B. Namdakov belongs to an ancient respected family - blacksmiths-darkhans "darkhate". These families have always produced the best jewelers, craftsmen and artists. Only they were allowed to work with fire, the sacred symbol of the chosen.

Genghis Khan

By religion, Namdakov is a Buddhist. The artist's father carved Buddhist symbols, figures of lamas and deities from wood.

Buddhism is deeply reflected in Dasha's work. When asked what role Buddhism plays in his work, he replied that, as a Buddhist, it was even strange for him to hear such a question. On the wall of the datsan in St. Petersburg there is a marble plaque-bas-relief in memory of the first rector of the temple, made by the artist. The traditional images of his works are immediately visible - these are nomads, warriors and horsemen, sacred figures, magical women, family patrons of the Buryats: totem animals and mythological creatures. The viewer is presented with deformed, curved, elongated characters with disproportionate parts of the body, for example, elongated necks and elongated limbs. Almost all of them have Asian facial features.
Tsoi A. Dashi Namdakov conquered the State Hermitage Hermitage / / New Buryatia. - 2010. - March 1.

Until the age of seven, Namdakov did not speak Russian, he lived in the house of his ancestors. In this regard, he later noted:

“I had a full-fledged rich world, just a gigantic one, which was saturated with all kinds of spirits, animals, creatures. And when I went to school, they told me: “The whole world fits in this sheet, throw everything else out of your head. It's your sick imagination." And the world shrank into this leaf. I am 44 years old and all my life I have been fighting how to get rid of this sheet that limits me, I owe everything that I can to my parents, to my homeland. »

Dashi Namdakov began working in the workshop of the Buryat sculptor G. G. Vasiliev in the city of Ulan-Ude. In 1988, he entered the Krasnoyarsk State Art Institute, studied with artists and sculptors L. N. Golovnitsky (who came to Siberia from Leningrad to teach), and Yu. P. Ishkhanov. After graduating from the institute as an external student, he returned to Ulan-Ude.

In the 1990s Dashi Namdakov opened a small jewelry workshop in Ulan-Ude. “This money and part of the salary of my wife, who then worked at Sberbank,” he later recalled, “we spent on bronze. But casting from this material is a whole technology. It is impossible to do this alone - people who need to be paid a salary are needed. In general, I think that we would have much more sculptors if it were possible to organize this process more simply.”

In 2000, the first personal exhibition of Dashi Namdakov was held in Irkutsk.

According to Dasha, the results of this exhibition were a big surprise for him. Before her, he believed that his art was interesting only to the Buryats and Mongols, residents of the Irkutsk and Chita regions, but nothing more. And it was after this vernissage that Dasha's creative fate went up sharply: he moved to Moscow, his exhibitions are regularly held in Europe and Asia, in America.
- Bogatykh-Kork A. Jewelry by the Buryat master is worn by Uma Thurman and Glucose // Number One Publishing Group

The works of D. B. Namdakov are made in the technique of artistic casting, forging and mixed media. The works are made of bronze, silver, gold, copper, precious stones, as well as bone (mammoth tusk), horse hair and wood. Sculpture, jewelry, graphics and tapestries have a pronounced unique author's style, which is based on elements of national culture, traditions of Central Asia, and Buddhist motifs.

Dashi Namdakov's works are kept in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, in museums in many countries of the world, including the Tibet House (New York) and Art Museum (Guangzhou, China). Sculptures are in private collections of V. V. Putin (“Elements”), M. Sh. Shaimiev (“Horseman”), Yu. M. Luzhkov, R. A. Abramovich (“Evening”, “Old Warrior”), others representatives of the elite of Russian politics and business, as well as in private collections in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Japan, USA, Taiwan. The works of D. B. Namdakov are possessed by such famous and influential people as different in character as Gerhard Schroeder, country music star Willie Nelson, and actress Uma Thurman. On April 14, 2012, a monumental sculpture of Genghis Khan by Dashi Namdakov was installed in London. Sculptures by D. B. Namdakov "Masks" and "Actor" were the prizes of the All-Russian Festival of Modern Drama. Vampilov (Irkutsk, 2002, 2003), and the sculpture "The Owner" - the International Documentary Film Festival in Irkutsk (2002). In 2003 he was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Since 2004, D. B. Namdakov has been living and working in Moscow.

In 2007, he provided art design for the film Mongol. In March 2008, D. B. Namdakov received the “Nika-2008” award “for the best work of the artist” in this film, as well as the “White Elephant”.

On July 30, 2008, the sculptor's workshop was robbed (moreover, they took away not only jewelry, but also molds for making them). “Everything that we had accumulated in five years,” D. B. Namdakov claimed, “was taken away in one night. Some people, of course, got very rich - God bless them. At first we had a panic, but then we calmed down. After all, it was not only my work, but also my colleagues - jewelers and stone craftsmen. But we set the task and completed the collection again on time.”

For a series of exhibitions in 2009, D. B. Namdakov became a laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of culture.

From December 21, 2007 to January 13, 2008, a personal exhibition of D. B. Namdakov was held at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, where his works for the previous seven years were exhibited.

In November 2008 in the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum named after. V. P. Sukachev opened the exposition of Dashi Namdakov "Transformation".

From February 26 to April 4, 2010 in St. Petersburg, in the State Hermitage Museum, with the support of Atomenergomash OJSC (Rosatom State Corporation), in the context of the masterpieces of the archaeological collection, D. B. Namdakov’s exhibition “Nostalgia for the origins. The Universe of Nomads by Dashi Namdakov.

From June 1 to July 31, 2011, in Kazan, in the National Art Gallery "Khazine", an exhibition of D. B. Namdakov "The Universe of the Nomad" was held, which was visited by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R. N. Minnikhanov, the state adviser of the Republic of Tatarstan M. Sh. Shaimiev and Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan F. Kh. Mukhametshin and other officials. In total, more than four hundred people attended the opening of the exhibition, the total number of visitors was about 4.2 thousand people.

Amazon

Running

rich bride

Grand Champion

nobleman

Vision

Warrior of Genghis Khan

Memories of the future

Rider

Garuda

Pearl

Priestess (Mistress of the Taiga)

Eclipse

Astrologer

Centaur

space steppe

Nomad

lama with gong

Lama with a drum

Lama with a tambourine

The face of Africa

Archer 1

Madonna with a bird

boy on a cat

baby mammoth

Meditation

Mystery

Zher-ana (Mother Earth) monument in Astana

Sage

Nude with a pearl

kidnapping

wise warrior

Light of Shambhala

Steppe Nefertiti

steppe wind

Element

Swift

Sacrament

Uligershin

smiling

Ust-Orda

Master

Queen

Genghis Khan (statue)

Youth

Rage

"I think the gods would be offended by me,
if I said I'm not a happy person.
I always felt that I was being "led" through life.
I've been lucky with people.
I do what I can and love.
Sculpture is my poetry, poetry in volume.
It happens that people look for their handwriting, their style for years.
I never looked for it.
I wrote and created as I breathed - what I live.
This is my world that exists inside of me.

But creativity is not the whole life. I love my family, I like to travel
I traveled a lot around the world, eagerly discovering the world for myself. I'm interested in everything in this life, it's interesting to live".

"An artist with boundless imagination, incredible, bewitching, mystical - it is impossible to do without these epithets already familiar to him. His people and animals either fly like a steppe wind, or freeze in deep thought. Even fantastic images look so authentic , as if the artist made them from life.They generally look miraculous.
And they also have a huge advantage ... - they are all made of bronze, although they are of different colors ...
And even if not everything is clear in the work, you still can not pass by. It will stop you and make you think, feel and admire the skill of the author. When an artist goes from his roots and desires, and does not lag behind Western fashion, dreaming of surprising everyone, then in the end monument to Genghis Khan appears in London. "

Genghis Khan (2011), bronze; casting, patination, 243 x 260 x 180 cm

Genghis Khan (2011), Marble Arch, London, installation date 2012
Bronze; casting, patination, 471 x 465 x 585 cm

The grandiose equestrian statue depicts a rider in the armor of a medieval Mongol warrior, with arms outstretched to the sides, in a state of deep reflection. The proud landing, the power of the body and the confidence emanating from the whole appearance of this hero testify to his dignity, fortitude, a long and difficult journey. The magnificent horse below him froze, his head down, and the wind ruffled his flowing mane.
Despite the abundance of decorative details: gilded badges of horse harness, relief scenes of tormenting animals, a special “ancient” patina of braided hair, we have before us a convincing and integral image of the national hero of the Mongols, who entered the history of world civilization. The horse under the rider seems to be a throne, and the man himself - a celestial deity.
In 2012, an equestrian statue was erected at Westminster London City Council next to Marble Arch as part of the City of Sculpture festival taking place in the city. The five-meter bronze statue was cast in Italy, delivered to the UK in parts and stood at this place until September 2012, after which it went to other cities of the world - in 2012 the 850th anniversary of the birth of the famous conqueror was celebrated. (The statue weighs 2714 kg without a pedestal).

Khanshaim (2008), Astana, Kazakhstan, date of installation - 2008
Bronze; casting, patination and gilding, 1000 x 1200 x 900 cm

The composition, weighing 15 tons, includes a grandiose figure of a bull symbolizing fertility, which serves as a support for a throne guarded by two leopards with swords in bared jaws, on which the legendary queen Khanshaim stands in full growth.
According to legend, the ancient ancestors of the current Kazakhs, the nomadic Sakas, owed their numerous victories to the courage and valor of the famous Amazon Tomiris. Under her leadership, scattered tribes united and formed one of the first states on the territory of Kazakhstan. The image of Tomiris is connected in the minds of the people with the image of all the legendary women who entered the history of the country. The monument was created as a tribute to the woman - the progenitor and protector.
The sculptural composition is stylized as the ancient monuments of the Near East, distinguished by grandiosity and epic static.

The monument, which represents the Saka queen Tomiris, stands on a giant bull (the bull is 10 m long, and the span of the horns is about 7 m).

Bronze monument "Golden Shoria". The height of the sculpture is more than 6 meters, and the weight is more than 5 tons. It was cast in Italy and transported in parts by sea to Russia.
Kuzbass, Mountain Shoria .

Before installation in Kuzbass, the monument was presented in Parco de la versiliana (Italy). Another name is the Mistress of the Taiga. The monument is an image of a strong beast - an old Elk with a girl on his back. This image is associated with an ancient legend of an amazing region. Drawings on the horns, like messages from ancestors, drawings of the Bronze Age. These are symbols of the sun and fertility. Some parts of the sculpture, after its installation on a hill in Kuzbass, were covered with gold. This is done so that the surrounding landscape and the rays of the sun create an additional effect of perception of the "Golden Shoria".

Golden Shoria (2010), bronze; casting, patination and gilding
615 x 702 x 654 cm

The author's idea is based on the desire to convey by means of monumental plasticity the idea of ​​people living in Shoria about the beauty and grandeur of this ancient land, embodied in the image of its legendary progenitor.
The mythical totem ancestor appears before the viewer in the form of a mighty elk, which has been worshiped by the inhabitants of the taiga for many centuries. The figure of an animal with beautiful spreading horns symbolizes the rich history of this reserved land. The planes of the horns are dotted with graphic images of scenes from everyday life, akin to the so-called petroglyphs, or rock paintings, in which cosmogonic symbols and magical signs of primitive cultures are easily guessed.
A girl sits astride an elk with a bowl in her hands. This is an allegory of a kind-hearted greeting, an invitation and at the same time a symbol of the connection between the present Golden Shoria and its distant past. A natural gas-fuelled "eternal fire" burns in the sacred chalice.

Four friendly (Tunshee), (2008), Aginsk, Russia, date of installation — 2008
Bronze; casting, patination, 480 x 215 x 106 cm

The sculpture adorns the area where nomadic Buryats settled since ancient times. This region became famous as a center for the spread of Buddhism in Transbaikalia. Until now, there are many old datsans here, which for several centuries were a stronghold of enlightenment and unification of the Buryat clans, connected the national culture with the entire Buddhist world.
The sculptural composition standing on a small village square goes back to a plot widely known in Buddhism. It embodies the images of the parable about faith, about the unity of all living beings in achieving a noble goal. Before us are several allegorical animals that formed a pyramid, standing on each other's backs, and as a result they got the desired fruit.

"Target". Sculpture from the exhibition "Nomad's Universe"

"Memory"

Mystery

"Meditation"
Sculpture from the exhibition "Nomad's Universe"

"Master"
Sculpture from the exhibition "Nomad's Universe"

King Bird (2007)
Bronze; casting, embossing, patination, 90 x 77 x 48 cm

"Amazon"
Exhibition "Nomad's Universe"

Evening, 41x81x17 cm

Element, 88x30x25 cm

Seter, 44x80x57 cm, Horse of Genghis Khan

Mother, 41x111x29 cm

Archer, 44x80x27 cm.

Great Champion, 47x31x23 cm

Old Warrior Guardian

Old warrior, 70x30x17 cm

Keeper.
The winged predator from the cat family does not threaten us, but the evil forces.

Running, 90x37x30

Sage

Flight

Madonna with a Bird Flight

The face of Africa

Steppe Nefertiti

Abduction, bronze; casting, patinated, 72.5 x 200 x 55.5 cm

Queen, 33x80x27

Zhemchuzhina II, 123x38x26
Is it a girl? The fluttering skirt is one with her. What's with that weird cut on the body? On the head is not hair, disheveled by the wind, but a shell ... Didn't the pearl oyster itself open its wings in front of us?

Dashi Namdakov - Russian sculptor, graphic artist and jeweler, member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation. Born in 1967 in the Chita region, graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Art Institute. In 2003, Dashi was awarded the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for works presented at solo exhibitions in Moscow.
In recent years, Dashi has made more than 15 personal exhibitions in the largest museums in the world: the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow, the Tibetan House Center for Tibetan Culture in New York, the Beijing Museum of World Art, the Guangzhou Museum of Art in China , National Art Museum. Kasteev in Almaty in Kazakhstan, etc.
Dasha's works are in the personal collections of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, the former president of Tatarstan M.Sh.Shaimiev, the former mayor of Moscow Yu.M. Luzhkov, head of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug R.A. Abramovich, etc., in private collections in the USA, Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, China and Taiwan, Singapore.

Parents taught Dasha: “You can’t want something too much in this life. If you start setting some super-tasks, everything collapses. Live calmly, surrender to the flow of the river of life, have fun. And he lives by this rule.
And the gods help him. No wonder they called him so - Lucky Sun.

artist website:
http://www.dashi-art.com/

Sources:

http://vakin.livejournal.com/401178.html

http://www.khankhalaev.com/body.php?mx=material&lang=ru&mi=64&smi=1&w=1366&h=768&

http://irinadvorkina.livejournal.com/55012.html

Detailed biography is here:

The phenomenon of Dashi Namdakov as an artist is that he preserved national traditions, but presented them in a completely new, avant-garde style.

« Dashi, I think this is such an Asian Dali, because this is a challenge, this is crazy energy, a huge knowledge of their own ethnic roots, but reworked in modern Western values. He is a unique artist...(Irina Khakamada, politician)

His handwriting cannot be repeated: the sense of form, plasticity, movement, the sense of proportion and harmony are academic, but filled with original character and meaning.

The reunification of the classical, traditional East with the familiar European civilization gives Dasha's works a unique individuality, style, and originality.

Biography

Dashi Namdakov was born in the Buryat village of Ukurik, in Transbaikalia. Full name - Dashinima ("Dashi Nima") - "Lucky Sun". He was the sixth child in the large family of Balzhan and Buda-Khanda Namdakov, who had eight children.

The sculptor's family belongs to the ancient family of blacksmiths-Darkhate, from which the best jewelers, craftsmen and artists came out. Only they were allowed to work with fire, the sacred symbol of the chosen.

By religion, Namdakov is a Buddhist. The artist's father carved Buddhist symbols, figures of lamas and deities from wood.

Buddhism is deeply reflected in Dasha's work. When asked what role Buddhism plays in his work, he replied that, as a Buddhist, it was even strange for him to hear such a question.

On the wall of the datsan in St. Petersburg there is a marble plaque-bas-relief in memory of the first rector of the temple, made by the artist.

The traditional images of his works are immediately visible - these are nomads, warriors and horsemen, sacred figures, magical women, family patrons of the Buryats: totem animals and mythological creatures.

The viewer is presented with deformed, curved, elongated characters with disproportionate parts of the body, for example, elongated necks and elongated limbs. Almost all of them have Asian facial features.

Until the age of seven, Namdakov did not speak Russian, he lived in the house of his ancestors. In this regard, he later noted:

“I had a full-fledged rich world, just a gigantic one, which was saturated with all kinds of spirits, animals, creatures. And when I went to school, they told me: “The whole world fits in this sheet, throw everything else out of your head. It's your sick imagination." And the world shrank into this leaf. I am 44 years old and all my life I have been fighting how to get rid of this sheet that limits me, I owe everything that I can to my parents, to my homeland.

Dashi Namdakov began working in the workshop of the Buryat sculptor G. G. Vasiliev in the city of Ulan-Ude.

In 1988 he entered the Krasnoyarsk State Art Institute, studied with artists and sculptors L. N. Golovnitsky (who came to Siberia from Leningrad to teach), Yu. P. Ishkhanov, A. Kh. Boyarlin, E. I. Pakhomov.

After graduating from the institute in 1992, Dashi returns to Ulan-Ude, where he continues to work.

In the 1990s, Dashi Namdakov opened a small jewelry workshop in Ulan-Ude. “This money and part of the salary of my wife, who then worked at Sberbank,” he later recalled, “we spent on bronze. But casting from this material is a whole technology. It is impossible to do this alone - people who need to be paid a salary are needed. In general, I think that we would have much more sculptors if it were possible to organize this process more simply.”

In 2000, the first personal exhibition of Dashi Namdakov was held in Irkutsk.

According to Dasha, the results of this exhibition were a big surprise for him. Before her, he believed that his art was interesting only to the Buryats and Mongols, residents of the Irkutsk and Chita regions, but nothing more. And it was after this vernissage that Dasha's creative fate went up sharply: he moved to Moscow, his exhibitions are regularly held in Europe and Asia, in America.

Creation

The works of D. B. Namdakov are made in the technique of artistic casting, forging and mixed media. The works are made of bronze, silver, gold, copper, precious stones, as well as bone (mammoth tusk), horse hair and wood.

Sculpture, jewelry, graphics and tapestries have a pronounced unique author's style, which is based on elements of national culture, traditions of Central Asia, and Buddhist motifs.

The works of Dashi Namdakov are kept in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, in museums in many countries of the world, including the Tibet House (New York) and Art Museum (Guangzhou, China). Sculptures are in private collections of V. V. Putin (“Elements”), M. Sh. Shaimiev (“Horseman”), Yu. M. Luzhkov, R. A. Abramovich (“Evening”, “Old Warrior”), others representatives of the elite of Russian politics and business, as well as in private collections in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Japan, USA, Taiwan.

The works of D. B. Namdakov are possessed by such famous and influential people as different in character as Gerhard Schroeder, country music star Willie Nelson, and actress Uma Thurman. On April 14, 2012, a monumental sculpture of Genghis Khan by Dashi Namdakov was installed in London.

Sculptures by D. B. Namdakov "Masks" and "Actor" were the prizes of the All-Russian Festival of Modern Drama. Vampilov (Irkutsk, 2002, 2003), and the sculpture "The Owner" - the International Documentary Film Festival in Irkutsk (2002). In 2003 he was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Since 2004, D. B. Namdakov has been living and working in Moscow, since 2014 in London.

In 2007, he provided art design for the film Mongol. In March 2008, D. B. Namdakov received the “Nika-2008” award “for the best work of the artist” in this film, as well as the “White Elephant”.

On July 30, 2008, the sculptor's workshop was robbed (moreover, they took away not only jewelry, but also molds for making them). “Everything that we had accumulated in five years,” D. B. Namdakov claimed, “was taken away in one night.

Some people, of course, got very rich - God bless them. At first we had a panic, but then we calmed down. After all, it was not only my work, but also my colleagues - jewelers and stone craftsmen. But we set the task and completed the collection again on time.”

Dashi Namdakov, exhibition in New York

Confession

Dashi Namdakov in 2015 was elected an honorary academician of the Florentine Academy of Drawing Art.

Exhibitions

2015

Ordos Sculpture Museum
Ordos, China. Personal exhibition

Soul of Asia
V. Bronstein Gallery
Irkutsk, Russia. group exhibition

Transformation
Academy of Fine Arts
Florence, Italy. Personal exhibition

Journey to a mystical country: Dasha Namdakov's memories of Asia
Gallery Shchukin

The art of creating
Halsyon Gallery, London, UK. Group exhibition.

Nomad. Works by Russian sculptor Dashi Namdakov
Henan Provincial Museum
China. Personal exhibition

2014

Nomad. Works by Russian sculptor Dashi Namdakov
Beijing World Art Museum
Beijing, China. Personal exhibition

Dashi Namdakov. Between heaven and earth
Halsyon Gallery, London, UK. Personal exhibition.

"Avatar"
Halsyon Gallery, London. group exhibition

Nostalgia for origins. Universe of nomads by Dashi Namdakov
Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after V.I. Surikov

Nomad. Between heaven and earth
State Historical Museum, Moscow

2013

Magical visions: jewelry and sculpture by Dashi Namdakov
Gilbert Albert Gallery, New York, USA.
Personal exhibition.

Mystery
Buryat Republican Artistic
museum. Ts. S. Sampilova.
group exhibition

Nomad: memories of the future
National Society of Arts, New York, USA.
Personal exhibition.

"World of Myths"
Tampere Art Museum, Finland. Personal exhibition

2012

"Transformation"
State Center for Science and Culture. Prague, Czech Republic. Personal exhibition

"Nomad Universe"
Halsyon Gallery, London. Personal exhibition.

Hiko Mitsuno Jewelry College
Tokyo, Japan. Exhibition of jewelry and graphics "25"
Irkutsk Regional Art Museum and the Union of Artists. Irkutsk. Group exhibition.

2011

"Bronze Asia of Dashi Namdakov"
Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev. Personal exhibition, participation in the program of the Baikal Economic Forum

"The Universe of the Nomad Dashi Namdakov"
State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Khazine Gallery, Kazan Kremlin. Personal exhibition

2010

"Nostalgia for the origins: the universe of nomads Dashi Namdakov"
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage. Personal exhibition

Russian National Exhibition in Paris
Palace of the Grand Palais. Participation.

"Transformation: sculpture and graphics by Dashi Namdakov"
Villa Versiliana, Pietrasanta, Italy. Exhibition project

2009

Buryat Republican Art Museum. Ts. S. Sampilova. Personal exhibition

"Element" Dashi Namdakov
Omsk Regional Art Museum. M. Vrubel. Personal exhibition

"Element" by Dashi Namdakov: sculpture, graphics, jewelry collection"

Moscow State Exhibition Hall "New Manege". Personal exhibition

2008

"Bronze Asia Dashi"
Museum of the city of Dalian, China. Personal exhibition

"Transformation: sculpture, graphics and jewelry collection of Dashi Namdakov"
,

"Transformation: sculpture, graphics and jewelry collection of Dashi Namdakov"
Gallery "House of Nashchokin", Moscow. Personal exhibition

2007

State Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow. Personal exhibition

"Bronze Asia Dashi"
Zhongshan City Museum, China. Personal exhibition

"Bronze Asia Dashi"
Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China. Personal exhibition

"Bronze Asia Dashi"
Exhibition Center of Dongguan, China. Personal exhibition

"Spirit Expression"
The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia together with the gallery "Dom Nashchokin", Moscow. group exhibition

2006

"Rider under the firmament"
Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan. Personal exhibition.

"Nomad Universe"
Beijing World Art Museum (Chinese Altar Millennium Museum)

Beijing, China
Exhibition project in cooperation with the Museum of the History of the Republic of Buryatia and the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore

China international gallery exposition
Beijing, China. Participation

"Open Russia"
National Museum of Fine Arts

Participation in a group exhibition of Russian artists
Beijing, China. International project.

2005

"Rider under the firmament"
National History Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Personal exhibition

Art Taipei
Taipei, Taiwan. Participation

"Rider under the firmament"
History Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Exhibition project.
Together with A. Ivashchenko, a collector of Buddhist thangka icons

Songjing Gallery
Singapore. Personal exhibition (jewelry art, sculpture)

Gallery "Hanart"
Hong Kong. Personal exhibition (jewelry art, sculpture)

Jeff Hsu Art Gallery
Taipei, Taiwan. Personal exhibition

Singapore Jewelry Show
Singapore. Participation

Moscow International Fine Arts Salon
Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow. Participation

Los Angeles International Antique
Fine Art and Jewelry Fair, Los Angeles, USA. Participation

Chicago Contemporary and Classic
Chicago, USA. Participation

Art Miami, Miami Beach
USA. Participation

Pal, Beach Connaisseurs
West Palm Beach, USA. Participation

2004

International Exhibition Center
Hong Kong. Private screening as part of the RBC international conference

Gertsev Gallery
Atlanta. Personal exhibition

"Nomad Universe"
State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow.
Exhibition project in conjunction with the collections of the Buryat Research Center and Siberian collectors

Tibet House US
New York, USA. Personal exhibition

Russian week, Palace hotel GSTAAD
Switzerland: Group exhibition

Central House of Artists
Moscow. group exhibition

2003

Art Museum
Yekaterinburg. Personal exhibition

Russian Ethnographic Museum
St. Petersburg. Personal exhibition

State Museum of Oriental Art
Moscow. Personal exhibition

Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukacheva
Irkutsk. Personal exhibition

Krasnoyarsk Cultural and Historical Museum Complex
Museum Biennale. Personal exhibition.

2002

Zurab Tseretelli Art Gallery
Moscow. Personal exhibition

Central House of Artists
Moscow. group exhibition

2001

Gallery "Classic"
Irkutsk. Personal exhibition

Museum of the History of the Republic of Buryatia
Ulan-Ude. Personal exhibition

Gallery of the Union of Artists in Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar

2000

Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukacheva
Irkutsk. Personal exhibition

Dashi was born in 1967 in a small village in the Chita region in a large family of a craftsman.
Dasha's father was known in the village as a man who knew how to make literally everything with his own hands - furniture, metal door handles, and carpets. His wood-carved sculptures of Buddhist deities and tangkas, Buddhist icons, were installed in monasteries. Therefore, from childhood, helping their father, the children learned different crafts, knew how to make things using different materials.

Dashi grew up in this atmosphere from early childhood, and therefore, by the time he grew up, he already knew how to do a lot with his own hands. But circumstances so developed that at the age of 15 Dasha suddenly became very ill, and for a long 7 years all visits to doctors did not bring any result. The young man was on the verge of death.

In the end, the parents ended up with a shaman, who explained the cause of illnesses and ailments by saying that people forgot their roots, stopped remembering their ancestors, remembering their names. The shaman performed her ritual. Incredibly, the pain subsided immediately. And after 7 days, Dasha was in another city and was looking for a job. That shaman predicted success for him, because Dasha had the ability to see the beauty of the surrounding things and embody it in her works.

Dashi starts working in the workshop of the Buryat sculptor G.G.Vasiliev in Ulan-Ude, where he hones his skills in working with different materials. Then in 1988 he entered the Krasnoyarsk Art Institute. Famous artists - L.N. Golovnitsky, Yu.P. Ishkhanov, A.Kh. Boyarlin, E.I. Pakhomov became his mentors.

After graduating from the institute in 1992, Dashi returns to Ulan-Ude, where he continues to work. In 2000, after the first solo exhibition in Irkutsk, it became clear that a new name had appeared in the art world - Dashi Namdakova. The exhibition made a splash in the art establishment. This was followed by successful exhibitions in other cities of Russia, successful shows abroad.

"Images often visit me at night," says Dashi, "when consciousness is in a borderline state between the real world and the world inhabited by illusions and spirits." Dasha scrupulously puts these visions on paper so as not to forget, and then skillfully transfers what she saw to another material - bronze, silver.

Dasha's sculptures come from distant worlds. From there, where there is no boundary between man and the universe, everything is there - particles of the universe, occupying a niche prepared for everyone in an endless stream of universal transformations. This is how the East perceives this world - finding beauty in its integrity and fragile harmony, fearing to destroy the order established by the Almighty with an awkward movement.

From here, shamans appear in Dasha's works, who still play an important role in the life of modern Buryats. The wisdom of things seen by Dasha pierces all his works. His warriors, tired of the war, do not seem like inhuman barbarians, but are filled with wisdom and greatness. Dasha's women are seductive and sensual in an earthly way, but at the same time she bashfully turns away from the artist deprived of modesty. If you look closely at a resting fallow deer, is it possible not to see a sleeping girl in it? Beauty surrounds us, wherever we are, but not everyone can see it.

"Perceive the world as it is, for its creator is wiser than you," Dasha's sculptures say, "then true beauty will be revealed to you."

The works of Dashi Namdakov, thanks to an amazing combination of innovation and ancient traditions of Buryatia, unusual plasticity and exceptional craftsmanship, were acquired for the personal collections of the first persons of Russia, including the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin.

Dashi Namdakov is a sculptor who needs no introduction. His works are made in the technique of artistic casting, forging and mixed media. The master's favorite materials are silver, gold, bronze, copper, wood, horsehair, mammoth tusk. Sculptures, jewelry miniatures, graphics - in all this one can see his original style, unlike any other, which is based on elements of national culture, traditions of Central Asia, Buddhist motifs. And at the same time, his work is clear to everyone, as if there is something in his work that touches the most delicate strings of the soul of a person of any nationality.

Legend (bracelet)

Excitement (pendant)

Africa (ring)

Africa (pendant)

Africa (earrings)

Lamb (pendant)

Gemini (neck decoration)

Nocturne (ring)

Babylon (ring)

Eternity (pendant)

Eternity (earrings)

Horse head (pectoral)

Rhinoceros beetle

Snake (pendant)

Truth (bracelet)

Capricorn (ring)

Mosquito (statue)

Lemur (ring)

Larvae (earrings)

Frog (ring)

Little Buddha (miniature)

Manta (pendant)

Manta (ring)

Mask (print)

Nautilus (pendant)

Rhinoceros

Aries (ring)

Octopus (ring)

Huntress

Panther (pendant)

Panther (earrings)

Spider (pendant)

Flight (pendant)

Princess

Enlightened

Birth

Cricket

Scythia (pendant)
When I look at the photographs of these wonderful creations, a proud note begins to sound in my soul. Of course, I understand that everything was then, but at the same time there was an opportunity to show oneself from the best, heroic side. And today, just like in the souls of the Mongolian tribes, in the soul of my people, that same tragic note sounds, about which Dashi Namdakov speaks so strongly. In fact, he speaks on behalf of all kindred peoples who have preserved themselves and their dignity, but have been in a state of complete oblivion for a long time.

Taken from http://sergey-v-fomin.livejournal.com/82022.html?view=193894#t193894

“... Nomads were distinguished by two qualities - military courage and unconditional loyalty. And on these principles, that is, on the principle of their heroism and the principle of personal devotion, they created great monarchies.
L.N. GUMILEV.

This post is dedicated to the Russian sculptor, artist and jeweler Dashi Namdakov and his work. Visitors to our LiveJournal are already familiar with some of them.
He was born in 1967 in the Trans-Baikal Buryat village of Ukurik. He was the sixth child in a large family of Balzhan Namdakov, who belonged to an ancient respected family of blacksmiths-darkhans. According to customs, only they were allowed to work with fire - a sacred symbol of chosenness. As in neighboring Mongolia, they are very attentive to the family pedigree. In the male line, the Namdakov family gave 23 generations over 600 years.

Dashi Namdakov studied first in Ulan-Ude, and then at the Krasnoyarsk State Art Institute, after which he opened a small jewelry workshop in Buryatia. In 2000, his first personal exhibition was held in Irkutsk, after which he gained well-deserved fame.

Ritual. 2001

Exhibitions of his works were held in the main museums of the country: the Tretyakov Gallery (2008), the Hermitage (2010), the State Historical Museum in Moscow (2014).

Rich bride. 1998

Steppe Nefertiti. 2001

His contribution to the creation of the feature film "Mongol" was awarded the "Nika-2008" and "White Elephant" awards "for the best work of the artist." D.B. Namdakov is a laureate of the 2009 Government Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of culture.

Frame from the film "Mongol".

The main themes of Dashi Namdakov's works are nomads, warriors, sacred figures, legendary personalities, family patrons of the Buryats, totem animals and mythological creatures.

Khan.

Noble.

Nomad.

Nomad-2.

Flying, flying steppe mare
And crushes the feather grass...
Alexander Blok.

The exhibition of works by Dashi Namdakov in the Hermitage in 2010 received a very precise title: “Nostalgia for the origins. Universe of nomads.

Enlightened.

Warrior.

Most of the works of Dashi Namdakov are made in the technique of artistic casting, forging and mixed media. The material is bronze, silver, gold, copper, precious stones, as well as bone (mammoth tusk), horsehair and wood.

Old warrior. 2001

Old warrior. Fragment.

Dashi Namdakov's works are kept in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, as well as in Chinese and American government collections. They are also in many private collections, including those of President V.V. Putin.

Warrior of Genghis Khan.

Archer. 2000

Dasha Namdakov also has graphic works.

Disappeared, gone missing
Steppe mares herds,
Wild passions unleashed
Under the yoke of the flawed moon.
Alexander Blok.

Queen. 2010

Dashi Namdakov: NOSTALGIA FOR THE ORIGINS

“With the hooves of horses, the history of Eurasia is inscribed in the annals of mankind. […] The legendary Mongol cavalry, which terrified the Europeans, remained forever in the historical memory of generations.”
A.N. ZELINSKY.

In one of the previous posts of our LiveJournal, we already wrote about the installation on April 14, 2012 in London of a bronze equestrian statue of Genghis Khan, created by Dashi Namdakov for the 850th anniversary of the birth of the Great Conqueror.
The sculptor worked on it for more than two years. The British gave him a huge workshop in London in the very center of the city. The master found an interesting solution: the Great Khan, dressed in Mongol armor, seemed to stop at the very edge of an invisible abyss - at the border of Heaven.

The bronze sculpture was cast in the Mariani workshop in northern Italy, delivered to the UK in parts. Its height from the horse's hooves to the rider's helmet is about five meters, weight - 2714 kilograms.
A statue was installed at the London Borough Council of Westminster on an island-lawn next to Marble Arch in the north-eastern part of Hyde Park. The event took place as part of the City of Sculptures festival on the eve of the Olympics.

However, the appearance of the statue in the center of the English capital was not to the taste of some islanders.
“What were the Conservatives in Westminster thinking about when they decided to place the statue next to Marble Arch? Who is next in line? Stalin? Pol Pot? Saddam Hussein?” protested Labor MP Paul Dimboldenberg.

There is nothing strange, of course, in such a reaction. It suffices to recall some lines from the poem by Alexei Shiropaev that we have already cited:

Buryats, Mongols, Cossacks -
To the west, to the west, to the west
Where the capital shines
The legend, like a cloud, strives.

For offices, faxes and plastic -
The mystery of checkers and swastikas.
Look: on the bank walls
Horse foam pulsates.

Into your ribbed tunnels
Steppe snowstorms flew in,
And destroys computers subsoil
Empire of bronze and wind.

Tearing down curtains and curtains
Will fly into your dreams
Cossacks, Buryats, Mongols,
Drawn by the surf of the English Channel.

Then the horsemen of Genghis Khan did not reach the British Isles.
However, today a bronze statue of their Terrible leader stands in the very center of London.

Meanwhile, the triumph of the Buryat sculptor from Russia in Europe continued.
In the following 2013, he became a laureate of the international sculpture competition "Pietrasanta e Versilia nel Mondo", which is held annually in Pietrasanta (Italian province of Lucca), a world-famous city where the greatest masters, including Michelangelo, worked.

Russian Asia in the Heart of Europe.

It was the first award of its kind given to a Russian sculptor.
Dashi Namdakov received the award and the title of "Artist of the Year" for his work on the Scythian theme. One of them - the "Royal Hunt", - made in the famous Italian art casting workshops "Mariani" and "Massimo Del Chiaro", was presented to the public and experts on the main square of the city of Pietrasanta.

What they saw captivated the audience. The well-known Italian critic, poet, doctor of art criticism Giuseppe Cordoni left an enthusiastic review: “Maestro Dashi portrayed the beautiful Queen - the Amazon and the Tsar - the hero. They are in a state of rapid pursuit. They are the nomads of Eurasia, where the house is a tent, and the roof of the house is the sky above them. The souls of the horsemen “breathe” with the boundless immensity of the steppe, on which they gallop. For the author, the steppe is the center of the universe, it determines the essence of the existence of the sculpture's characters. It contains everything that the heroes embody and possess: the shamanic spirit of their ancestors, the secrets of early Buddhist culture, the signs and symbols of ancient art.”

In the "Royal Hunt" there is something that is not often seen today: plasticity, elegance, lightness, movement ...

"I'm happy!" - this is how the head of Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool, responded to the success of the sculptor. “I am immensely grateful to Dashi Namdakov for the power of his art, for the way it brings nations together. For the fact that today this freedom and freemen of the Scythian King and Queen are already here in the West in bronze, in the very center of world culture, arouse admiration among the discerning public and critics. Dasha's highly artistic aesthetics is read by people of various languages ​​and cultures, connects us, brings the spirit of Asia to the most remote corners of the planet.”
"Royal Hunt" is a part of the sculptural ensemble "Center of Asia" in the capital of Tuva - Kyzyl, ordered by Dashi Namdakov.

We look forward to the implementation of this plan.

"On the horse-holes!" - comes the command
People immediately take off on horses,
And the horses swallow the wind greedily,
The wind of those irrevocable days.
Yulia SHISHINA