artist – Saving Art

His name was sung by all the countries of the Soviet Union and the songs of the A-Studio collective are still heard in the playlists of Kazakhstan. Because it is impossible to forget the name of our most talented and sweet nightingale, Batyr.

About the work of the singer, the most famous Julia and love…

The starting point of the creative journey was 1982 when the young student of the conservatory of K.Sagyrbaev began to study the game on saxophone. A little later, the year was marked by a fateful meeting with Bengali Serkebaev, Bulat Syzdykov, and Vladimir Mikloshych, who invited him as a saxophonist to the already known Kazakhstan group “Aray”. After five years, the young musicians would leave the group under the prerogative of Roza Rymbaeva and go to the flat with their own group “Alma-Ata”, a little later “A-Studio”.

Batyrkhan Shukenov at a concert.

Well, then “Christmas songs”, Moscow concerts and performances. “A-Studio” becomes a reason for the pride of the whole country. So begins the path of the brilliant artist…

“The Way Without Stops” song opens the golden list of A-Studio`s songs. The following hit “Juliya” make a real music resonance. Such Kazakh “Julia” was sung by all nationalities at the same time honoring the independence of Kazakhstan. In particular, this song opened a ticket to a new life for children from Kazakhstan.

According to the deceased, the composition was revived by the rebellion in the late 90s fashion for foreign culture:

“Volodya Mikloshich, who composed the lyrics, felt these moods among the people, and the effect was powerful. Beautiful arrangement, good performance and text, which is nothing complicated, you just need to remember the name – Juliya. “

Excerpt from the song " Juliya" 

"...Discontinued the former deception, 
We are divided by the ocean
 Goodbye and forget
Back don't go that way
 Why sadness reminds me of your name?
 Well, let.
 I will repeat it again to myself,
 Julia..."

As acknowledged by his relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances, Batyr, as they called him, was a man of pure soul, not concealing resentment and evil, which people from show business rarely are. His good nature towards others and humanity are provable by his charitable activities, which the singer himself did not disclose.

Love for music, people and native land embodied in full in the artist’s solo musical project started from “Otan-ana”. Songs dedicated to Kazakhstan and performed with the penetration, touch with the sound not only every Kazakhstan’s citizen.

Otan-ana, Batyrkhan Shukenov

With such careful words, the singer praises the lands of his native land. To the great regret of the nation, a unique and unsurpassed link in folk art left this world at the age of 51 years.

Batyrkhan Shukenov left behind a great heritage, love in the hearts of people. Together with the genius, the youth of an entire era has gone. But the love given by Batyrkhan will remain to live forever…

Illustrations to the children’s Encyclopedia of Kazakhstan “Legends of ancient Kazakhstan”. Author Assol Sas.

Assol Sas, an illustrator from Almaty. A year before the start of the 2000s, she graduated the Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University. Since 1995, Assol has done illustrations of the Republican newspapers “Sobesednik”, “Karavan-Glik”, “Karavan”, “Zhuma-Friday” and the magazines “Zerkalo”, “Tandem” and “Season”.

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games, and films.

As a rule, an illustration saturates the transmitted thought.

“ In childhood, I hid behind books from reality ”

On the author’s course book illustration.
Almaty
May 2016.

For May 2016 Sas decided to open the author’s course on book illustration.

As acknowledged by the illustrator, when she did not have work orders, she wrote a fairy tale and illustrated it. Assol is a very welcome guest at various workshops. From the age of 19, starting to work with his father, creativity turned into a profession. Creativity Assol Sas absorbs the spirit of the Kazakh ethnic group and the identity of our culture. The art of the girl combines fragments of historical content transmitted in a modern painting form.
Assol has a lot of experience in creating illustrations. She always in her work gave priority to the book graphics – one of the most difficult areas in the visual arts.

– It is very interesting for me to create different images, each time trying to understand what exactly the author wanted to say in order to convey his ideas. Most of all I like to do illustrations for dramatic works, to ponder upon the images of heroes. For example, I would very much like to illustrate the works of Shakespeare. I will never undertake to illustrate a book in which there is no drama at all, ”Assol shared.

Most of the artist’s works, drawn for the children’s encyclopedia are presented below.