Personal exhibition of K.Zhapalova “Melodies of life”

September 30 – October 24, 2010

      This exhibition – is one of the directions of the development of the project «Kazakhstan directed to the future», connected with the propagation and popularization of creativity of artists, sculptors and handicraftsmen from the different regions of the country. K.Zhapalova's some works had been presented in the exposition of the museum funds of Atyrau region in 2008, and both organizers and visitors had been interested in her works.
      Kamila Zhapalova is a member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan, member-correspondent of Academy of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, figure of culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Her creativity reflects modern lines in the fine arts of our republic. She graduated from Shymkent art school under the name of A. Kasteev, St.-Petersburg art school. The author creates unique products of the fine arts in the batik technique. She has numerous ranks and awards for her works.
      Many centuries the batik was not only an ornament or clothes, but also original letters, means of expression of thoughts. The batik’s native land considers island Java in Indonesia where are very popular the clothes from the fabrics painted manually. This way for reception on the drawing fabric was used from time immemorial in ancient Shumer, Peru, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indochina, African countries. The batik is not only an ancient craft and art, but also sacrament, magic which as consider, is capable to influence life and destinies of people.
      K.Zhapalova creates also in traditions of the batik. There is faultless and exact selection of colour. She uses the palette of paints of all colours of the rainbow, but pay attention to their certain tonality creating mood. Women – are gentle and strong simultaneously, she and he, birds with an exotic colouring, landscapes of the native land... A woman sees such world, she is a keeper of the center, the traditions, thereby she is connecting together the past, the present and the future.
      K.Zhapalova participated in various exhibition projects such as fair «National applied art», the World exhibition of artists (Paris), the republican exhibition «Dala men kala» (Almaty), VII republican exhibition «World of the batik» in the Museum of arts of A.Kasteev (Almaty), where her works were highly appreciated. She is the winner of the international award "Shabyt", the owner of the Certificate of honour of Kazakhstan-Turkish festival of applied art (Cyprus, 2008).