Bakhodir Jalal: All Seeing Eye

The muralist style of Bakhodir Jalal is so vibrant that he injects texture into his colourful compositions. This wonderfully symbolic and geometric façade is inspired by the architecture of the Sherdor Madrasasi, which is located in ancient Uzbek city of Samarqand. This 17th century heritage site, situated on Registon Square, is covered in mosaic patterns, from which Jalal took his cue for this piece. A lion-like animal is featured on the mosaics of the building and here, it appears in the centre of the all-seeing eye, which is a direct reference to the spirituality of the place and distinctive Islamic architecture. 
 Artist Bio:

Born in Tashkent in 1948, Bakhodir Jalal completed his studies at the Republican Art College (1968) and at the St. Petersburg Repin’s Institute of Painting (1968-1974) where he graduated with honors from the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting. He then received a grant and was allowed to travel to Italy to study classicism. He came Uzbekistan in the 1980s. Jalal was commissioned for several works such as “Harvest,” “Genesis of Dance” and “Chronicles of Uzbek National Theatre” by the Uzbekistan government for important public spaces. He won the USSR State Prize in 1984 and the Uzbekistan State Prize in 1991. Notable exhibition of his works were at the Russian Cultural Centre, Accra, Ghana (1985); Kortrijk, Belgium (1990); Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia (1991); Sackville Gallery, London, UK (1997); 3rd Triennale International Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India (1999); 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia (2009); 7th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Uzbekistan (2013); and the World Art Dubai Fair (2016). Jalal's work is collected by renowned international institutions and private collections, including the British Museum, Modern Art Museum in Moscow and the National Gallery of Uzbekistan.

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