Dilka Bear

Template:Infobox person Dilyara Nassyrova, better known as Dilka Bear (born 1977 in Almaty, Kazakhstan), is a Kazakh artist, illustrator and painter.

Biography

Dilka Bear studied Architecture at the Almaty University of Arts, in Kazakhstan.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> After working as an illustrator and a graphic designer for companies such as Cosmopolitan Kazakhstan, Grey Central Asia, Saatchi & Saatchi Kazakhstan,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> she devoted herself to painting.<ref name= Interview_mono>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2005 she moved to Trieste, where she currently lives.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Her work has been shown in galleries in Rome, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and Melbourne.

Influences and style

Influenced by the great masters of the past, such as Bruegel and Bosch, the Italian Renaissance, but also by contemporary artists such as Marion Peck and Ray Caesar,<ref name= Interview_mono /> and by Grimms' Fairy Tales, Dilka Bear mainly paints with acrylics on table<ref name= Interview_Iva>Template:Cite web</ref> and “creates beautiful […] illustrations of young girls and their frank expressions that mirrors the worlds around them”.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Her “dreamy” works – to use her own words –<ref name= Interview_Iva /> is often categorized as belonging to the Pop surrealism visual art movement.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

• 1997 “Butterflies”, Tribuna Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
• 1998 “Break 21”, International Festival of Young Artists, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 1999 “Break 21”, International Festival of Young Artists, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 1999 “The Line of Beauty”, Art Manege ’99 - Moscow, Russia
• 2000 “Africa”, Soros Centre of Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
• 2001 The Cover of Daily Routine - Stuttgarter Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2009 “Kokeshi: from Folk to Art Toy”, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, United States
• 2011 “Italian Pop Surrealism”, Mondo Bizzarro, Rome<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2012 “Run Away Circus”, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2012 “Vanishing Point”, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2013 “Draw”, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne, Australia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2013 “Blue Hour”, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne, Australia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2013 “Into the Wild”, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 “All Stars”, 10 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 “Kingdom of Broken Dreams: Dilka Bear & Paolo Petrangeli”, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, USA

Solo exhibitions

• 2012 “Wild Escape”, Mondo Bizzarro, Rome
• 2013 “Sleepwalker’s Dreams”, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne, Australia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2014 “Forgotten Memories”, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne, Australia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Bibliography

• vv.aa., Italian Pop Surrealism, Rome: Mondo Bizzarro, 2012
• Dilka Bear, Modena: Logos edizioni, 2013
• Dilka Bear, Su Anasi, Logos edizioni, 2015

References

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