Background
Kurbanjan Gulam was born in 1986 in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
Xinjiang Normal University, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Kurbanjan Gulam studied at Fine Arts Department of Xinjiang Normal University graduating as Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011.
库班詹·古兰姆
Kurbanjan Gulam was born in 1986 in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
Kurbanjan Gulam studied at Fine Arts Department of Xinjiang Normal University graduating as Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011. In 2017 he completed the Young Artists Creation Advanced Seminar held by National Arts Foundation. He also graduated from the senior training class organized by China Artists Association for Ethnic Minority Young Artists in Western China in 2018.
Kurbanjan Gulam after his graduation in 2011 started his career as a middle school art teacher in Kashgar at the same time creating his own works of art.
Gulam's artworks depict a strong regional character. So much so that the paintings transcend the viewer's expectations of the conventions of visual language, making instead, original interpretations of his people, land, and landscapes. And as a result, the artwork of Gulam can claim to be highly contemporary of his time and place, now.
Kurbanjan Gulam has made his own individualistic response to challenges of contemporary art, painting in particular. He directly and decisively compresses objects and space into a two-dimensional plane, splicing together space with a moment in time. The strong color contrasts emphasize the equal status of each element of the spatial arrangement. This harmonic rhythm reduced back to 2 dimensions, captures Gulam's powerful visual experience of growing-up where the patterns were more important than a subject, where the whole was more important than any particular part. This shows the artist's sensibilities being almost overwhelmed by 'place' and the relationship of its component parts.
Paintings by Kurbanjan Gulam can be characterized by a certain level of originality, evoking as they do a unique sense of place, a particular feeling for one's homeland. It is his strength of feeling for his region that has enabled him to see with refinement, to feel where there should be emphasis and to assembled and finally integrate his vision through the act of painting. In de-constructing the image of his homeland through flattening and abstracting the component parts, Kurbanjan Gulam has in fact re-constructed a more powerful experience of place. An experience that comes not from the superficiality of a fleeting vision but from the combined power of looking, feeling and knowing. The resulting paintings demonstrate this more complex vision of an inner-experience of color, textures, patterns, and atmosphere.
Kurbanjan Gulam has a strong sense of his personality, which he expresses in both verbal and visual languages. This can be seen in his individualistic paintings which defy classification into a particular style or genre.