"Modern contemporary art of Azerbaijan" in Aidan Gallery
ARTinvestment.RU   10 апреля 2010

Today Aidan Gallery opens to the public exhibition of "Modern contemporary art in Azerbaijan. In memory of Leila Akhundzade "

Today, April 10, at Aidan gallery opens to the public exhibition "Contemporary art of Azerbaijan. Memory Of Leyla Akhundzadeh".

Leyla Akhundzadeh, Professor, artist and curator of the Azerbaijan pavilion at the Venice Biennale — 2007, prepared this exhibition together with Aidan Salakhova, but died in February 2010. Therefore, the first show in Moscow, the current Azerbaijani art devoted to her memory.

the exhibition will feature the works of Leyla Akhundzadeh, honored artist Eldar Gurbanov, artists Tarlan taste bitter, Farid Rasulov, Rashad Alakbarov, Orkhan Huseynov, Babi Badalov and Rashid Akhundzade.

"the exhibition of Azerbaijani artists, the Moscow audience will not find any East of bliss, nor other expected options in the spirit of the discourse of the exotic, about which so many copies of the broken American fighter against neo-colonialism Edward said. Everything is much more complicated. That's about it, I guess, and wanted to tell Muscovites Azerbaijan curator of the exhibition, Leyla Akhundzadeh recently so ridiculous deceased. No such exotics is not observed in its series “Woman. The pursuit of excellence”. Frontal photographs of Azerbaijani matrons, selling various Goodies, mounted with scenery found in the classical European painting. Nothing surprising there, and in luxurious folkloric beauty, Eldar Gurbanov placed on the surface of rural trunk “mujra”. As well as in the collage Rashid Akhundzade, where Rembrandt Danae, waiting celestial Zeus in the form of Golden rain, gently stroking the head tired elderly Azeri woman with a broom in his hand.

stretched in a length of white fotofreo Torlan taste bitter winds endless vine, turns into a universal metaphor — cardiogram, which combined the rhythms of natural and human.

Fabric dolls, nestled in the form of the word ART in the work of Babi Badalov, simple and clear answer to the old and the children's question: "What is art?".

But the butcher, thoroughly and enthusiastically cut up the carcass of a sheep. This spectacle, which makes the sweet heart beat of every lover of good food and causes a storm of indignation among the faint-hearted vegetarians. The market, as you know, is the true focus of any right of the Eastern city. However, it is not so simple: the video Farida Rasulova captures the artist's uncle, who suffers from diabetes and therefore not having the opportunity to personally enjoy the fruits of his Studio work. The video is shown in reverse. In the end, we face a whole carcase of a sheep, applied to the Eastern parable on the theme of the inability to separate sensory, about which he wrote and the French philosopher Jacques, both.

Biliary irony Rashad Alekperov understood only by those who survived these geodetic and geographical changes. Hiding in a dark room brutal design of plastic pipe in a flash of light reflected on the wall of a melancholy statement: “the Crisis”. But the next outbreak is responsible sardonic “Ha-Ха” — and such crises and turning we saw.

perhaps the only piece in the exhibition of Azerbaijani artists, which requires a historical reference, — is a portrait of the poet Sabir Huseynov of Orhan. The blood on his lips like a classic not only that he died of tuberculosis. For his role in the national literature Sabir most close to the angry accuser public ulcers Nikolai Nekrasov. But unlike the Azerbaijanis, who know and remember Sabir, a portrait of Nekrasov in modern Russia does not remember almost none".

Andrey Kovalev

the Exhibition runs until may 9.

Source: artinfo.ru, azeri.ru, be-in.ru