TENGRI. LIGHT WORKS
Within these works, Aigana Gali felt ready to deliver a very precise message, something completely different than anything she had done before, and with it a new process which can be likened to opening a channel and painting automatically. Each work begins from a specific point in the canvas, from which the light and shapes unfold in perfect, geometric order. Using the finest of brushes, the artist kneels before each image, working “like an archaeologist, excavating the light.” They represent evolution from the abstract colour fields in Steppe - nothingness - through to the geometric forms of Tengri - being. By incorporating biomorphic and geometric shapes into the colour fields that were manifest in Steppe, Gali mirrors her own conscious evolution; coming into an awareness of self while retaining a sense of our place - and the space we create - under this ‘grey blue sky’.
Selected Works
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Kөsem
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm
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Adam
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 100 x 80cm
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Gateway
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 90 x 60cm
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Meditator II
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm
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Meditator III (He)
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm
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Meditator III (She)
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 90cm
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Nur
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 90cm
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Көsem
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 60 x 100cm
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Meditator I
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm
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Turquoise Meditator
2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 120cm
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Tolpan
2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm
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Oliara (The Dark Moon)
2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm
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Ainalaiyn
2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm
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Tamshi
2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm
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Bayterek (The Tree of Life)
2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 162 x 122cm
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Ashu (Opening)
2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120cm
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Boran Koz (Eye of the Storm)
2022, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 120cm
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Dzhemre
2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm