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Uzbekistan: Pottery traditions of Khorezm today

27/06/2015 19:54

In the village Madir of Hanka district of Khorezm region of Uzbekistan has a big family of potters. Their pottery today are highly valued and in great demand among the population. Keeping the age-old traditions and opening up new creative horizons, Hanka artisans not only celebrate folk arts and crafts, but also successfully develop small business and private entrepreneurship.

The unique shape and decoration of the local dishes with a rich blue-green ornament is decorated with strict rhythmic pattern. Including patterns "Flower of apple," flower pepper "," ram's horn "," Traces of the snake "and others. School Goncharsky skill known as "Madir zangori kulollik Maktab", is known as "Madyrskaya blue-green pottery school." Today, the fifth generation of the dynasty continues Matchanov original art.

Secrets of the ancient craft is handed down from generation to generation. The well-known representative of the dynasty Rahimberdy Matchonov was awarded for his contribution to the development of this kind of traditional national arts and crafts, it was dignify the title of Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the State Prize Kamoliddin Behzod.

Gonchar Rahymberdi Matchanov spent on many years the restoration of historic monuments of the complex Ichan-Kala in Khiva, the mausoleum of great poet and thinker Pahlavan Mahmud and other architectural structures. His unique works now adorn museums of Russia, Italy, Spain, Malaysia, USA, UK, India, Turkey, France and Japan. Today his work continues by his generation Adylbek, Matchanbek, Sarvarbek and other members of a glorious dynasty. 15 potteries, employs about 80 craftsmen.

In 2004, "Madirsky center blue ceramics" was restored by the bases grant UNESCO. It overhauled and expanded production facilities. Potters Madira has manufacturing shops and classrooms equipped with all the necessary equipment.

There was opened a kind of master class the school” Usta-shogird” (mentor-student) in which use are trained and are showing great interest in the ancient art of their ancestors. The student will be trained very well at school, before they start to embody the creative imagination in clay.

In 1999, skilled of craftsmen village Madir participated in the restoration of the building of Regional Theatre Ogahi. They are executed as majolica painted monumental works great ancestors of al-Kharazmi and al-Beruni, which is situated near the airport "Urgench", modern Art Museum in Tashkent. We participated in the restoration of the Muslim shrines - Bahauddin Naqshbandi and Sultan Uvays in Beruni district of Karakalpakstan.

Artworks of Matchanov  wereexhibited at various international exhibitions abroad, in cities such as Paris, London, Sofia, Istanbul, Moscow, St. Petersburg. Few manage to embody the essence of national culture, by bringing in this bridge from the past millennia of artistic strivings to our time. Matchanov of those who reunites in his work the tradition of folk crafts craftsmanship with the latest discoveries and crafts.