Online store Art-Kaz.kz

About the store and its mission

Online shop Art-Kaz.kz existed since mid-2007. The main activity of the store - providing opportunities for Kazakhstani and foreign art dealers, collectors and "simple" people to buy artwork Kazakh writers and artisans, as well as souvenirs, interior items, etc., decorated in the style of folklore of peoples living in our country .

We can not say that at present a professional art market in Kazakhstan is missing.Enough to look into the prepared Valeria Ibraeva most comprehensive network directory of contemporary art in Kazakhstan. In every major city in Kazakhstan, and even more so in Almaty and Astana is on-line art galleries, a lot of different shops selling art and antiques. But the main buyer in these galleries foreigners, but local nouveaux riches. And for the stretching of the beautiful simple Kazakhstan is a segment of the street Silk Way of Furmanova to Ablai Khan, but special stock markets, consumer goods flooded our neighbors in the form of smiling Buddhas, dragons, so pandas.

This situation leads to the fact that the wide West, and not just the public vosprimaet our culture as primitive, unaware of the richness and diversity of our cultural heritage.But Kazakhstan is zone konfesionalnyh, racial, ethnic, cultural contacts, which leads to the peculiarity of art in Kazakhstan. In its fusion of different cultural influences can create original artwork, absorbing the breadth of the Russian, Chinese delicacy, quirkiness Muslim East. But this is not a mechanical compilation of disparate elements, as reflected by their world-view of the Kazakh nation, its mentality, and a special, somewhat distanced relationship to reality.

In the early 90's, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, no one in Europe and the U.S., but experts did not know about Kazakhstan. Interest in our country was only in business circles, and then as a cheap source of oil, gas, nonferrous metals and wheat.

But gradually the Western world began to see that Kazakhstan has a diverse landscape, allowing to make a fascinating trip. Here you can storm the high mountains, roam the pristine taiga, cross deserts, swim in the many lakes and rivers.But Kazakhstan is not just nature, it is the original centuries-old culture. Since ancient times, the Great steppe, which stretches from Panonia in the west to Manchuria in the east and from the taiga in the north to the Caucasus, Karakum Desert, Pamirs, Tien Shan and Gobi in the south, was a special world, where different tribes lived, the general who was a nomadic life. Of course we do not have cities with such stories as Rome, Beijing or Memphis, and in the desert is not possible. No ceramics, it is still broken on the road, no cities of stone, they do not carry her off of any horse or camel.But we have the petroglyphs left by our ancestors thousands of years ago, we have a metallurgical workshops of Sary-Arka III millennium BC, the Scythian burial mounds with unique jewelry. It is here that people have tamed horses, camels and sheep, invented the wheel, designed a lightweight, warm and compact home - tent and were able to grasp all of Eurasia. And we are proud of this history.

Especially the rapidly growing interest in our country lately. This interest was awakened, on the one hand, advances in political and economic reforms undertaken in the Republic, on the other - the victory of Kazakhstan in the sports world. This is especially true of the professional team "Astana", whose representative, the famous cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov won the Vuelta, the third largest international cycling race. National Team of Kazakhstan and professional clubs involved in European football tournaments. Kazakhstan's athletes have achieved great success in the sports of boxing, classical and freestyle wrestling, weightlifting.

Scandalous "Kazakh" journalist Borat Sagdiyev has also caused an increased interest in our country. His film was a smash success at the box office in the U.S. and some other Western countries. Willy-nilly horseplay Borat Sagdiyev draw attention to Kazakhstan.

Therefore, we think that soon, in the wake of the growing interest in Kazakhstan, the Western art dealers also expressed interest in the work hudozhestvennymh Kazakhstan authors.

All of the above allows us to formulate the mission of the Company as follows:

Our goal is to promote the artwork of Kazakhstan authors on the international market, to improve the assessment of Kazakhstan in the international community.