Modern Art Museum holds MEGAPOLIS exhibition
By Nigar Orujova
The MEGAPOLIS exhibition, a debut project of Azerbaijani young curator Farid Mammadzada, has kicked off in Baku Museum of Modern Art.
Executive Director of the Museum of Modern Art Khayyam Abdinov and honored artist Sabina Shikhlinskaya and curator of the exhibition Farid Mammazada gave more details about the project.
MEGAPOLIS project addresses one of the problematic points of modernity - the theme of the traumatic relationship between the modern city-megopolis and human being.
The exhibition is putting on display the artworks of two contemporary Azerbaijani artists Mammad Mustafayev and Niyaz Nadjafov.
The specific approach of the artworks towards spatial solution underlies common combat of humanity against depression and urban areas-implied seeming depression and desperation. This project seeks to highlight the challenge of interaction of human souls and urban resident areas of megapolises.
The art pieces of the above-stated authors address two aspects of the issue, namely macro-level and micro-level-oriented points.
Moreover, MEGAPOLIS challenges professional and public perception of the mentioned idea that happens beyond the windows and over the walls of enormous skyscrapers-obsessed megacities. The perception lays its foundation slabs on the conscience and souls of the human race.
Farid Mammadzada's curatorial idea was born at the end of a master-class called "Curatorial and mediator practices in contemporary art" held by honored artist of Azerbaijan and curator Sabina Shikhlinskaya. The class was part of a educational program of nonprofit organization YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku last March.
Curatorial ideas of the three master class participants were deemed worthy of realization and will be presented on the basis of the Museum during 2014.
MEGAPOLIS exhibition will press ahead with a series of projects of young curators. All the paintings are part of the collection of Museum of Modern Art. The young author Aykhan Khalilov's movie-interview with artists Niyaz Najafov and Mammad Mustafayev also took part in MEGAPOLIS project.
The exhibition will be open for visitors on six days per week (Tuesday-Sunday) until September 22.