Farid Rasulov's Solo Exhibition at Rabouan Moussion Gallery in Paris

Farid Rasulov Solo Exhibtion: Dogs in the Living Room

6 September > 11 October 2014

Rabouan Moussion Gallery, Paris

Rabouan Moussion Gallery is glad to present Farid Rasulov’s first solo show in France. After the success of his Carpet Interior installation at the 55th Venice Biennale, the Azerbaijani artist will present an initiatory journey, offering a discovery of the perception of a man faced with an aesthetic paradox: a total installation, carpeted with oriental motifs. Rasulov transforms typical Western spaces with irrational and provocative designs, like a dialogue between East and West.

These traditional patterns - 'motivus', which means 'what moves' in Latin - are the signs of a changing country: a region of dissolved Soviet Union, torn between tradition and modernity, East and West. This work backs onto a conceptual nakedness, yet is neither rational nor useful. The total composition ornament focuses on the signs of an ancient tradition in order to transform its meaning and destination. The space becomes an extreme variation of the present, staked by an ancestral material composition, which is at the same time useful and symbolic. The meaning escapes through multiplicity and operates a cultural transfer: the extent of weaving causes alienation of the meaning. The sensory experience plunges the viewer into a particular universe, which still remains to be discovered.

Curator: Azad Asifovich

Rabouan Moussion Gallery

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