“Buryat sculptor Gennady Vasiliev and his images on the Dzhida land. Buryat genius - Dashi Namdakov

On August 1, perhaps the entire Russian beau monde walked in Sochi. The reason is more than solemn - Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Putin, and Tatyana Navka, the Olympic champion in figure skating, decided to tie the knot in marriage.

Oh this wedding

The celebration took place in the Rodina Grand Hotel, one of the most beautiful places in the Olympic capital. The main fun began after eight in the evening - it's hot in Sochi, above 30 degrees. The restaurant where the guests were invited was called "Heaven" - it is located on the roof of the "Motherland" at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea level in an open area.

Recall that Tatyana and Dmitry met a few years ago at the wedding of their mutual friend. The novel did not happen right away - Peskov had a family, and Tatyana, according to her, did not want to destroy it.

We were not only from different worlds - from different universes! Imagine: a different way of life, different interests, circle of friends, style of dressing... But it happens that people from non-intersecting orbits of life meet by chance, and it turns out that they fit together like pieces of the same puzzle. So it happened with us. An inexplicable force of attraction arose, and the banal phrase “I can’t live without you” became an absolute reality, Navka said in an interview with Tatler magazine.

Last year, Tatyana and Dmitry had a daughter, Nadezhda. And the couple decided to get married.

Star guests

Among those who came to congratulate the couple were: the Yudashkin family, spouses Igor and Olga Krutoy, Navka's friends Anna Semenovich, Inna Malikova, Alika Smekhova, Yana Rudkovskaya, spouses Mitvol, Philip Kirkorov, Nikolai Baskov, Anzhelika Varum and Leonid Agutin and many others. The newlyweds hugged their 11-month-old daughter Nadezhda, her eldest daughter from her marriage to figure skater Alexander Zhulin, 15-year-old Alexandra, admired her beautiful mother.

Dashi Namdakov, a Buryat sculptor of world renown, was also among the guests of honor at the wedding. His photo, along with his wife, was posted on Instagram by the general director of the Russian Media Group, Sergei Kozhevnikov.

He signed the picture like this: “With the great sculptor Dashi Namdakov!) #dashi#sculpture”

On this day, only love songs sounded. Angelica Varum sang her "Everything is in your hands", and her husband, Leonid Agutin - "Airports". Congratulated the young Philip Kirkorov. And when Nikolai Baskov took the microphone in his hands, the newlyweds decided to break away in full. Dmitry took off his jacket and loosened his tie, and Tatyana threw off her shoes, replacing them with comfortable slates.

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, 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.

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.

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 by 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.

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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

Dashi Namdakov lives and works in Eastern Siberia, not far from the natural wonder - the beautiful Lake Baikal.

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 wooden 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.

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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 lives and works in Eastern Siberia, not far from the natural wonder - the beautiful Lake Baikal.

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 wooden 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.

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Ms. Wang Limei

Director of the Beijing World Art Museum

His works reflect the worldview of the Buryat people and the author inclusive, which is characteristic of the philosophy of shamanism that everything in the Universe has a soul, everything is connected and mutually subordinate. All these ideas can be seen in his work. I think that his work is actually very mysterious, but we can understand this mystery by looking into the past, feel the spirit and mood that the author wanted to express in his work. … in his works we see a kind of synthesis of two cultures”

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Dr. Maurizio Vannu

Executive Director of Lucca Center of Contemporary Art Museum

Dashi is an artist by vocation. He is gradually gaining international recognition. The sculpture of Dasha in the world of our time is the fruit of the creation of an artist who listens, who is nearby and who perceives the state of contemporary world art and at the same time respects the past and traditions. This is fantastic realism, even more real and realistic than what nature offers us. Dashi is an artist of his time. He translates personal experience into his sculptures, into his creations.

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Sergei Bodrov

Film director of the film "Mongol"

Dashi is a unique person with unique abilities. Therefore, he contributed much more to the picture than an ordinary artist. He contributed his knowledge of a culture that is completely unknown. He is very accurate in guessing the style. He is practically a co-author of our picture. Without him, the picture was worse.

Dashi is our artist. He is a famous sculptor. He knows it all, feels everything, an amazingly talented person.

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Westminster City Council

This is a mystical and fantastic sculpture. The Keeper is a powerful protector with sharp and intimidating wings behind her back. She seems to growl, threatening anyone who dares to attack those she protects with sharp fangs.

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Valentin Yudashkin

Honored Artist of Russia

What I see is very young and dynamic for me. The artist feels the form, plastic, very national and ethnic.

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Irina Khakamada

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...

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Dmitry Peskov

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin

Any exhibition of Dasha is a great holiday for those who love and know his work. This is a bright representative of Russian culture, which is rich in all our diversity. And it's great that he brings his art abroad, and pleases our viewers.

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Valentina Matvienko

Rare talent. It is necessary to give the opportunity to enjoy his work, his magic to as many people as possible.

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