YARAT to host event dedicated to national artist
YThe meeting with the People’s Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Rasim Babayev, will be held at Museum of 20th-21st Century Azerbaijani Painting on October 23.
Rasim Babayev's son, Elnur, who has chosen to follow in his fathers' footsteps will take part in the event.
Participants will also be able to see personally the works of the great portrait painter included in the exposition of the museum.
Rasim Babayev (1927-2007) was one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called Absheron school of painting. He was an underground and non-conformist artist working outside the ideological frames of the Soviet period.
His creativity has had a significant impact on the contemporary art of Azerbaijan.
The artists works are kept in permanent collections in Azerbaijan and abroad.
The meeting starts at 19:00. Admission is free.
Address: Museum of Azerbaijani Painting of the XX-XXI Centuries(Bayil District, near YARAT Centre)
YARAT is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to nurturing an understanding of contemporary art in Azerbaijan and to creating a platform for Azerbaijani art, both nationally and internationally. Based in Baku, YARAT (meaning CREATE in Azerbaijani) was founded by Aida Mahmudova in 2011.
YARAT is an artist-founded, notfor-profit art organisation based in Baku, Azerbaijan, established by Aida Mahmudova in 2011. YARAT (which means 'create' in Azerbaijani) is dedicated to contemporary art with a long-term commitment to creating a hub for artistic practice, research, thinking and education in the Caucasus, Central Asia and surrounding region.
It comprises of YARAT Art Centre, ARTIM Project Space, YARAT Studios, YAY Gallery and an extended educational and public programme. YARAT Art Centre, a 2000m² converted Soviet-era naval building, opened in March 2015 and is the organisation's main exhibition space.
Education has been at the heart of YARAT's activities since its creation. With a dedicated public
programme that includes courses, workshops, lectures, screenings, festivals, literature and theatre clubs and family weekends, YARAT aims to give access to broad audiences of all ages.
Located on the National Flag Square, Museum of 20th-21st Century Azerbaijani Painting was
founded by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. The Museum was inaugurated in June 2015 by the
President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev and the First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva.
It presents works by both prominent and lesser-known Azerbaijani painters from State Collections, such as the National Picture Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art.
The author’s 55 paintings, 30 graphic and 12 ceramic works will be presented there, the press service of the museum told Trend Life. The exhibition is dedicated to the 65th birthday of the artist.
Today we are opening the creative heritage of Farhad Gamzaliyev (1953-2008) - another page in the history of modern Azerbaijani art.
Not everyone knows the name of Farhad Gamzaliyev. His name means a lot for nowadays young people working in the field of painting and various types of decorative and applied art and whom Farhad Gamzaliyev provided comprehensive, deeply professional support, helping to stand up and master the basics of craftsmanship.
He is well known both by young architects and designers who mastered the art of drawing and painting at the Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction under his leadership. Here, at the Department of Fine Arts, Farhad worked for a short time - about three years.
Farhad Gamzaliyev is a native Absheronese. The artist’s life was associated with oil since childhood. Grandfather - Gurban Guliyev owned the oil field in Surakhani. Father - Islam Gamzaliyev - worked in the fields. Uncle - Musa Guliyev - for many years headed the OGPM "Garadagneft". Growing up first in Surakhani, then in Mardakan, he is imbued with the subtle, but infinitely attractive beauty of the Absheron nature.
Farhad Gamzaliyev graduated from the Leningrad Higher Industrial Art School named after V.I. Mukhina (at present, Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry).
The artist started drawing a lot in the late 1990s: technical difficulties with the production of ceramics affected. Close contact with such brilliant painters as Ismail Mamedov and Darwin Velibekov came in handy in these times. They saw the main advantage of art in the independent life of the means of artistic expression. These were artists who saw in the form the main factor influencing the work of art on our senses, giving it a leading role in the awakening of any emotions in the viewer.
He is a master of three-dimensional forms. His paintings are many-sided. They belong not only to different genres, but are executed in different manners of the letter and represent, at times, polar artistic trends, such as objective realism and geometric abstractionism, dramatic expressionism and sentimental romanticism.
The late 1990s - 2000s was a period of high creative activity of the artist. He is engaged in painting a lot and enthusiastically, experiments with glass and mirrors, with wood, metal, his favorite ceramics, and all this found its way into creating some “objects” that attracted both novelty technology and new interpretation of old themes. A bit later Farhad discovers a completely new technology for those years - computer graphics, the Pandora’s Box, which opened up unlimited possibilities for experimentation to artists - with color, composition, and form. The system itself here sometimes suggests unexpected configurations, geometric and organic shapes, shades and color gradations.
He was only 55 - healthy, beautiful, optimistic, full of creative plans ... He passed away, sitting at the easel, holding a brush in his hands ...