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| 31.05.2011
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THE INTERREGIONAL EXHIBITION “SHURALE AND ME” OPENED IN THE “KHAZINEH” NATIONAL ART GALLERY ON MAY 14.
“Shurale and me” was the last in a series of the exhibitions, held in halls of the “Khazineh” National Art Gallery in Kazan as devoted to the 125th birth anniversary of a great Tatar poet Gabdullah Tuqay (1886 - 1914).
Shurale (tat. Шүрәле) is a male forest monster in Tatar folklore and a main protagonist of Tuqay’s most famous poem of the same name “Shurale”, written in1907. It’s usually depicted as having long fingers, a horn on its forehead and wooly body. He was believed to kill victims by tickling them after luring them deep in the forest. The exposition featured 125 jocose images of Shurale by professional artists and students of art schools and workshops from Moscow, Naberejnye Chelny, Saint-Petersburg, Ufa, Neftekamsk, Blagoveshchinsk, Kazan, Elabuga and Omsk.
“The first Shurale seemed to be born at the same time, as Gabdullah Tuqay was born to this world, because an imaginary, an artist or a poet has, is already inherent to his soul at the very moment of his birth. Tuqay was 21, when he finished writing his poem “Shurale”, so it was likely Shurale to be 21. And it was the 21st Shurale, whose hand Byltyr squeezed, and the 27th, who paid last tribute to his creator, but all 27 of them are attending here. Shurales abandoned Qirlay forests long ago, as soon as Tuqay’s glory spread out Tatarstan and dispersed to every corners of the world. Shurale is appearing as a shadow everywhere Tuqay’s name has become known. It is young and there’s always something new about him” - Vasil Khannanov, a curator of the exhibition, said.
The exhibition will visit Moscow and Ufa. “Shurale and me” was organized by the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Nail Latfullin Museum of the Modern Art of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Mardjani Foundation.
Dates: May 14, 2011 – June 14, 2011
Timing: Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 am to 05:00 pm. Address: Kazan Kremlin, the 3rd Entrance
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