Iskan
I work on canvas, yet I don’t paint with paints, I paint with LOVE. It is all about vibes!
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Iskan
"Composition #339"
Acrylic on Linen Canvas | 23.6x31.5 in
$4,115.97
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Biography
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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Nationality:
RUSSIA
- Date of birth : 1956
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Russian Contemporary Artists
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Prizes and Awards
2024
Grand Prix For Graphic Art
Moscow,
Russia
Collective Expositions
2025
Palazzo Colonna, “Primavera” March 2025
Rome,
Italy
2025
Chiesa San Silvestro Al Quirinale, “Rinascita Arte Dell’anima”, April - May 2025
Rome,
Italy
2025
“1000 Opere”, May – October 2025
Rome,
Italy
2025
Permanent Display At Hotel In Collioure, 2024-2025
Collioure,
France
2024
Palazzo Carpegna Palace Th Of Vatican, December 2024
Rome,
Italy
2024
Palazzo Colonna, Christmas Group Exhibition, December 2024
Rome,
Italy
2023
“Choice Of Art Bureau – 15”, “Espace 22” Gallery, July 2023
Monaco,
Monaco
2021
Art Ocean's Day, Group Show, June 2021
Milano,
Italy
2020
Fashionable Eco Art Exhibition, Palazzo Zenobio, Group Show, February 2020
Venice,
Italy
2020
Fashion World Clean Up March , Group Show, February 2020
Milano,
Italy
2018
Group Exhibition Of 3 Artists, August 2018
Vallauris,
France
2018
Gray D’albion Hotel, September 2018
Cannes,
France
2017
I-Galley, “Theatre Sur Papier”, Montmartre, January 2017
Paris,
France
2017
Group Exhibition Of French Artists “Aria Di Francia”, Organized By Galleria D’arte Mentana, Palazzo Strozzi, June 2017
Florence,
Italy
2017
Galerie Espen Artdenor, August 2017
Cannes,
France
2016
“Sine Finibus”, I-Galley, Montmartre, August 2016
Paris,
France
2016
“Theater Auf Dem Papier”, Organized By Artischocken, September – October 2016
Nuremberg,
Germany
2016
“Free Look”, December 2016
Berlin,
Germany
Publications & Press
Solo Expositions
2025
The Philosophy Of Plato And Fundamental Particles Of Quantum Mechanics, 3 - 30 April 2025
Moscow,
Russia
2024
Coordinates Of Harmony
Moscow,
Moscow,
Russia
2022
Metaphysics Of Disks
Moscow,
Moscow,
Russia
2020
Color Forms Of Solar Iskan
Moscow,
Moscow,
Russia
2019
Solo Exhibition September - October 2019
Nice,
France
2018
The World Of Color Forms
Moscow,
Moscow,
Russia
2017
Metamorphoses Of Color Forms
Moscow,
Moscow,
Russia
2016
Villa Aloha, July 2016
Cannes,
France
2016
Color Forms
Moscow,
Moscow,
Russia
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I displayed my art at 90 exhibitions in Berlin, Cannes, Minsk, Moscow, Nuremberg, Nice, Venice and Paris participating in 71 group exhibitions and holding 19 one-man shows including 6 personal museum exhibitions.