Sayan is a young Kazakh artist. He paints the spaces and scenes of everyday life that surround him. From childhood, he moved from place to place, having neither a house nor a room, so he appreciates the place where he lives at the moment more than ever. Therefore, the theme of the surrounding, close and native space is very important for him.
Sayan Baigaliyev was born in the village of Betkuduk, Kazakhstan. He studied at a boarding school and college with a degree in easel painting at KazNAA named after. T. Zhurgenova, Almaty city. He studies in the workshop of contemporary art under the guidance of Aidan Salakhova at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. Surikov. Studied museum practice in Paris, won the Jackson Painting Prize 2021 in the category Scenes from Everyday Life, London. Conducted master classes in painting at the UNESCO Planet of Art International Festival in Astana in 2019. Participant of Moscow youth exhibitions and the All-Russian Art Exhibition «New Time» in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, also took part in exhibitions in Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Sayan’s artistic gesture represents a unity of Turkic locality and nomadic multiculturalism; the Kazakh author engages in spatial transformation.
Sayan embeds the spectator into scenes captured from the everyday, reducing the aesthetic distance.
Recently, still lifes have become the artist’s daily subject — the piling of information in a context of external turbulence forces to engage in meditative dialogue with self via color and composition. No prearrangement —only a sincere contemplation of chance observations and intuition.
Immediate “capturing” of the space is manifested by oil objects, coming through the surface towards the viewer, making their presence felt while recalling their origin — painting.
Sayan works with the third dimension and reverses it. He balances between profane and sacred spaces, breaking the laws of linear perspective, proportions and the conventional structure of the External. The real is substituted by irreal, the functional —by afunctional. The author takes the recipient back to the mythic consciousness of the age when humanity was capable of naive earnestness.