The origins and artistic features of Dashi Namdakov's works of sculpture (2000s)

The artist Dashi Namdakov is one of the brilliant representatives of the modern artistic culture of Siberia, whose works are known in many parts of the world. The author reveals the origins and features of the artistic language of the master's works of sculpture, created in the early 2000s. The ethnogenetic memory of his East Asian ancestors, who have lived in Siberia since ancient times, is clearly manifested in the work of Dashi Namdakov. The creative process is associated by the master with magical actions, and the artistic image combines elements of the Scythian-Siberian style, the sophistication and realism of the masters of ancient petroglyphs, the sedateness and generalization of Siberian stone women. Dashi Namdakov, as a shaman during the ritual and the demiurge who creates his work, performs a kind of ritual of saving his kind, a human tribe and returning historical memory to him.