March 2024

YARAT announce 012 Baku Public Art Festival

25 Feb - 01 Sep 12

YARAT, a non-commercial organisation dedicated to the promotion of Azerbaijani contemporary art, is delighted to announce the launch of the inaugural 012 Baku Public Art Festival. The first event of its kind to take place in the Azerbaijan capital, the festival will bring contemporary art works to a variety of public locations in the heart of the ancient city.

012 Baku Public Art Festival will feature the work of twenty-one of the finest emerging and established artists in Azerbaijan. Each has been given the task of creating a visual reinterpretation of a setting that holds significance for them within the city. Working alongside local historians, they have made a detailed study of their chosen location, whether a building, park or balcony. The Festival will launch with a temporary exhibition of the sketches, notes, photographs and films made during this creative process. These materials will be on public display between the 25th February and 1st March 2012 at the UNS Creative Stage.

From 9th March 2012, one public art work will be unveiled every Friday over twenty one weeks on the site which inspired their creation. This will allow the work of each artist to be celebrated individually, as though in a solo exhibition, but in fact as part of a city-wide festival. By bringing their work into the public sphere, the artists will gain creative freedom and will achieve a higher level of exposure without the constraints imposed by a gallery or museum.

Each art work not only reflects artists' visual interpretation of specific environments but also represents the vision of different generations, the participants age from 21 to 69, reflecting social, sociological and cultural transformations.

Works of the following artists will be exhibited: Altai Sadikhzade, Aga Ousseinov, Fuad Salayev, Mammad Mustafayev, Huseyn Hagverdi, Mahmud Rustamov, Teymur Daimi, Niyaz Najafov, Mekhti Mammadov, Rashad Alakbarov, Ali Hasanov, Aida Mahmudova, Faig Ahmed, Farid Rasulov, Leyla Aliyeva, Sitara Ibrahimova, Rashad Babayev, Nail Alakbarov, Orkhan Huseynov, Nazrin Mammadova and Shargiya Rahmanli.


 

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