12 Feb - 31 Mar 16
YAY Gallery is delighted to announce a solo exhibition named `Something From Nothing` and featuring Rashad Alakbarov. According to philosophers, the conflict is the most necessary attribute of life for conceiving human, since early years and until the end of life, the dialectics reckons the contradiction as an imperative logical form of development. The conflicts of fathers and children, disagreements of married couples, office contradictions – adding oppositions of the countries, political leaders, information fights – the list can be continued infinitely.
The artist Rashad Alakbarov in this artwork investigates game of light and shade, symbol and the text, words and values. The Exhibition ‘Something From Nothing’ is the artist’s response to the occurring events in the world. The response deprived of policy, vice versa, sending us to the thousand-year common truths, which are reviving their actuality. The artist attempts to interpret the evolutionary way, which consigned humanity to information chaos that occupied the world from the beginning of 21 century. The artist’s drawings on the walls of the gallery portray how all achievements of Homo sapiens from fire; wheel and engine had turned into the small steps, which led us to invention of the TV, radio and the Internet.
The words created from a play of light and shadows that appear on walls, reminiscent us the patience, humility, and true values. The core work of the show became Something From Nothing, which symbolizes the dissonant voice of the people, which is infinitely broadcast and strengthened by such megaphones as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
Free admission.
Exhibition dates: 12th February > 31th March 2016.
Opening hours: 12:00 > 20:00 (except Monday)
Address: Icheri Sheher, Kichik Qala str. 5 (in front of A.Vahid sculpture)
Telephone: 012 505 2323
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