Candy sculptures exhibition to sweeten Baku
By Nigar Orujova
Baku will host a solo exhibition by famous French painter and sculptor Laurence Jenkell on May 6.
Jenkell's exhibition will be presented by the Heydar Aliyev Center, the center reported.
Sculptures of flags of different countries in the uncommon form of candies will be put on display at the exhibition.
Jenkell's first solo exhibition in Baku will include 26 works and last till October 31.
Visitors will be able to see the flag sculptures of Germany, the U.S., Argentina, the U.K., Brazil, UAE, Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Hungary, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Korea, India, Italy, Japan, Ukraine, Poland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia, South Africa, China, and the EU in various forms.
The sculpture of Azerbaijan's flag will also be showcased at the exhibition.
The exhibition was first organized at the summit of G20 at Cannes in 2011, when Jenkell created the flag sculptures of the member states and guest countries.
Jenkell, a self-taught artist who lives and works in Vallauris,
France, began her creative career in the middle of the 90s. An
artistic research led Jenkell to experiment with various techniques
such as inclusion, dripping, firing, and casting.
Successfully mastering and dominating Plexiglas and obtaining the
"wrapping" technique, Jenkell started to produce candy sculptures
that had obsessed her for years.
Candies allowed her to exorcise devils of her childhood and made
her question her own heredity. The mystical candy that became a pop
icon includes a concept of multiplicity and seriality.
The artist's works, which stem from an intellectual and cultural process, have been presented in more than 25 countries.