ӨткенSolo exhibition

ABOUT LOVE. LEYLA

by Лейла Махат

“ABOUT LOVE. LEYLA” is a solo exhibition by Dr. Leyla Mahat, featuring paintings and graphic works created during the pandemic period. The exhibition is dedicated to the theme of love as a source of faith, hope, and creativity amid global instability.

Суретші туралы

Лейла Махат – заманауи қазақстандық суретші, куратор, галерист. KULANSHI ART GROUP галереялар желісінің жетекшісі. Еуразиялық Өнер академиясының президенті. Қазақ Ұлттық Өнер университетінің «Кескіндеме және мүсін» кафедрасының профессоры. Бейнелеу өнері саласында философия докторы (PhD). Польшадағы Ченстохова қаласындағы Ян Длугош университетінің «Сурет және кескіндеме» кафедрасында шақырылған профессор (visiting-professor).

Куратор жазбасы

“ABOUT LOVE. LEYLA” — this is how Leyla Mahat titled her latest solo exhibition. The events of recent years, marked by anxiety, loss, and instability, lead to the conviction that love — and only love — has the power to revive life and fill hearts with faith, hope, and creative energy. For an artist, the most natural way to express these feelings and share them with the world is through art. Leyla Mahat, an established and recognized painter and graphic artist with a distinctive and recognizable visual language, presents new works created during the pandemic period. The exhibition brings together paintings and graphic works structured into multi-part series. They continue to feature the artist’s recurring motifs — the female figure, the horse, steppe landscapes with hills and clouds, tumars, and balbals — appearing either as compositional elements or as autonomous symbols. Color becomes the primary expressive tool in Leyla’s work. Intensified and energetic, open and profound, enriched with developed textures, strong contrasts, and vibrant flashes, it conveys a wide spectrum of emotions and states of being. Reality and imagination, past and present, intertwine in her works, forming an individual artistic concept of existence. Thus emerge fantastical landscapes in which heightened color transforms the environment into psychological, almost psychedelic, contemplative spaces. Angelika Akilbekova MA in Art History A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts Republic of Kazakhstan