Shamo Abasov

Born in 1955 in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan 1970-1974 – A. Azimzade State Art College, Baku 1978-1984 – V. I. Mukhina Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry Since 1986 – Member of the Union of Azerbaijan Artists Since 1986 – Member of the Union of Soviet Artists, 1989 – First-degree Diploma, Union of Azerbaijan Artists 1996 – Second Prize of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture EXHIBITIONS 2

017 Pomegranates and high mountains, exhibition of the Azerbaijani artists, «Kunstation Kleinsassen» gallery, Germany 2015 solo exhibition, Azerbaijan Cultural Center, Vienna, Austria 2014 solo exhibition, Galerie Berlin-Baku, Berlin, Germany 2005 Man and Woman group exhibition, Sattar Bahlulzade Exhibition Hall, Baku, Azerbaijan 2003 November Salon, Gallery Vladislav Marzik gallery, Kraljevo, Serbia 2000 solo exhibition, Exhibition Hall of Mercy Corps, Baku, Azerbaijan 1996 Novruz international exhibition, Ankara, Turkey 1991 Baku Art Center exhibition, the UAE Cultural Center, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 1990 Baku Art Center Exhibition, Rigas Modes gallery, Latvia 1990 Young Artists of the USSR and the GDR, Erfurt, Germany 1989 Baku Art Center Exhibition, Avignon, France 1989 XIII International Symposium on Ceramics, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1989 Baku Art Center Exhibition, Moscow Palace of Youth, Moscow, Russia 1988 XIII International Symposium on Ceramics, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia 1986 USSR young artists exhibition, Manezh, Moscow, Russia 1985 XLIII International Contest on Ceramics конкурс керамики, Faenza, Italy 1983 autumn exhibition of the Leningrad artists, Manezh, Moscow, Russia Artworks by Shamo Abasov are housed in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan, Baku; Azerbaijan State Picture Gallery, Baku; Russian Ministry of Culture, Moscow; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO; Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, Saint Petersburg; South Bohemian Gallery, Czech Republic; the Azerbaijan Embassy in the USA; as well as in the private foreign collections and galleries. Shamo Abasov passed away on May 7, 2014 in Baku. Shamo – is a real Absheron artist who reveals around the world in a completely unexpected and incomprehensible ways. He is able playing the usual forms while transforming them beyond recognition, the commonness in the artist’s canvases regenerates into grotesque associative variety of symbols and hidden meanings. He has worked with ceramics and wood, which also is reflected in a certain approach while creating shapes and volumes, use of local colors in contrast as well as sonorous combination. Shamo remarkably fully experienced the uniqueness of Azerbaijani national colors in a finely captured facial features and comic situations. He is the artist with a happy creative destiny, is able to make the others happy. Shamo lived with his art, in his fragile, mysterious and tidy world with neither self-confident ambitions, nor thirst of glory. The glory has found him itself. But the world of Shamo is concentrated within the walls of his workshop. Here in the imaginations of the artist the true fair life of the artist used to live with the life absurd and farfetched outside it.