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

  • Kөsem

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm

  • Adam

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 100 x 80cm

  • Gateway

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 90 x 60cm

  • Meditator II

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm

  • Meditator III (He)

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm

  • Meditator III (She)

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 90cm

  • Nur

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 90cm

  • Көsem

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 60 x 100cm

  • Meditator I

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm

  • Turquoise Meditator

    2021, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 120cm

  • Tolpan

    2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm

  • Oliara (The Dark Moon)

    2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm

  • Ainalaiyn

    2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm

  • Tamshi

    2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm

  • Bayterek (The Tree of Life)

    2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 162 x 122cm

  • Ashu (Opening)

    2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120cm

  • Boran Koz (Eye of the Storm)

    2022, acrylic, oil on canvas, 150 x 120cm

  • Dzhemre

    2021, oil, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm