Iskan

I am Iskan Ilyazov, artistic alias Iskan. I was born in 1956 and brought up in Tiraspol, Moldova; I lived in Bucharest, Romania; currently I live in Moscow, Russia. 

I paint bright and emotional geometric abstractions on canvas that capture and inspire the viewer. Filled with positive energy, my paintings bring harmony, joy, happiness and kindness.

I'm doing everything my own way. My pictures make themselves – from a kind of inexplicable faith in their own star

I generalize and then hone the image, making it expressive. The rest doesn’t interest me. I remove the litter from a figurative representation, I throw out the noise and the background. You can say I boil it down to crystal, touching it up to achieve balance and harmony. In the end, only color and form are left. When I paint an abstraction, I generalize the figurative almost until the image disappears; when it becomes symbolic and bright, when a lot of content has been compressed into it – then it is ready to be transposed to canvas. Then I have to think about nothing except the painterly technique, and even to that I pay little conscious attention, only controlling the quality of what’s coming from under the brush. It all comes from inside. It all happens in my subconscious.

My paintings are part of public and museum collections in Minsk, Moscow, Nuremberg, and Florence; and private collections in Windsor and London; Berlin and Cologne; Minsk and Monaco; Moscow and St. Petersburg; Hollywood and Las Vegas; Cannes, Nice, and Paris.

I am a specialist in Soviet non-conformist art and own a relevant collection. As a scholar and researcher, I focus on the theory and practical studies of color forms in contemporary painting.

My list includes over 100 exhibitions in Berlin, Venice, Cannes, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Nice, Nuremberg, Paris, Rome, St. Petersburg, and Florence, with over 80 group exhibitions and 20 solo shows.

I am Honored Arts Personality of Russia, academician of two arts academies, professor of visual arts. From 2021 to 2024 I was awarded 18 medals at international creative contests and I won a Grand Prix for graphic art in 2024.

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