Few artists have kept their finger on the pulse of the layered cultural, artistic and sociohistorical landscape of Central Asia as firmly as Erbossyn Meldibekov (b. 1964), who has been making works that serve as metaphors for the ever shifting geopolitics of the region since the early 1990s. A Point Becomes a Circle, and Time Turns into a Ball in a Curved Space, the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong showcased a brand new body of works from the past five years. In them, Meldibekov returns to the visual foundations of his oeuvre, namely the point and the circle, as symbols to expound the art history and its contemporary discourse of the steppes in his native Kazakhstan.

In the exhibition catalogue, Dastan Kozhakhmetov, who has worked with Meldibekov on many of his projects, detailed the context of selected recent works. Andrey N. Fomenko's essay offers a study to the artist's artistic practice across mediums and forms. The English and Chinese translations as well as as the original Russian texts are included.

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Artist Erbossyn Meldibekov

with essay by Andrey N. Fomenko

ISBN 978-1-906576-87-5

2025, Paperback, 17.8 x 22.8 cm, 156 pages

Language: English, Chinese and Russian