Exhibition 'BAKU,YEREVAN,TBILISI:OVER! CAUCASIAN CITIES'
2009-06-19
We would like to invite you to get familiar with the detailed information about the exhibition in the Kordegarda Gallery.
As a part of the „Room with a view” series in the Kordegarda Gallery, the exhibition will be held portraying the city of the region. The presented works of modern artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia portray a landscape and everyday life of the people.
Opening of the exhibition: 26th June, 7:00 PM
The exhibition will run till 31th August
Curators: Eva Khachatryan, Jahangir Selimkhanov, Wato Tsereteli
Kordegarda’s Curators: Magda Kardasz, cooperation: Krzysztof GutfraĊski
Georgia:
"Satellite city" Gio Sumbadze
The artist on his work: “these images are my reflections on the urban space between Tbilisi and its satellite city Rustavi, its infrastructural details, its architecture mostly of soviet period and its slow disappearance and transformation into the new hybrid reality".
Armenia:
During the Armenian exhibition Vahram Aghasyan’s works will be presented.
“Bangladesh” synopsis
In Armenia perhaps the greatest heritage left from Soviet Union is the modern architecture. Bangladesh is one of such areas built in 80’s and resembles a small town not because of its size but with the symmetry of its identical tall buildings. ”The citizens" themselves have given this sarcastic name to their "city", the hottest and the farthest district of Yerevan.
Ruins of our time
While traveling outside of the Yerevan, passing by the deserted landscapes one can see bus stops, standing in the middle of nowhere. Passers-by can see each of them for a few seconds only, but always will notice them, because of their unusual, overdone architecture. With some exceptions we are trained to see the bus stops as purely functional examples of architecture and design, they must be easily noticeable for people at the extent that when one intend to use them shouldn’t miss them. So they are colorful and comfortable not ambitious or grand at all. These bus stops in Armenia are a little different, because of their form. Most of them were built from 1960’s to 1980’s. This sector of urban planning and architecture was maybe the most experimental of all the other architecture that is present in Armenia; as a result we have the bus stops made of stone or concrete sometimes with weird constructivist architecture.
Azerbaijan:
“City Signs”
Chosen works of Chingiz Babayev, Orhan Huseynov and Jeyhun Ojadov use lapidary urban visual language, a simple and instant way to address messages to large audiences, for reflecting complex and subtle concepts of self-orientation in inner and outer space, mapping memories and life scenarios, positioning oneself vis-à-vis dramatic changes in the identity and in the set of basic values etc.
“A Dream City”
Accidental prints of photos by Farid Mamedov/ picked up by Tarlan Gorchu Tarlan Gorchu in this series performs just one of a complex series of skills which an artist needs to create an artwork – the ability to select from among myriads of images the right ones. What is presented as a surrealistic manipulation of overlapped and coincided images, which creates a fanciful and thrilling effect of blurred ‘out-of focus’ consciousness, is in fact a fine selection of very few randomly expressive sheets chosen from among hundreds in the waste of typographic production at the backyard of the printing house in Istanbul where Farid Mamedov’s glossy coffee-table book on Baku was under printing. So simple: an artist who has an eye for the unusual and the hyper-real offers us a mystical journey into a dream city called Baku.
2009-06-19
We would like to invite you to get familiar with the detailed information about the exhibition in the Kordegarda Gallery.
As a part of the „Room with a view” series in the Kordegarda Gallery, the exhibition will be held portraying the city of the region. The presented works of modern artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia portray a landscape and everyday life of the people.
Opening of the exhibition: 26th June, 7:00 PM
The exhibition will run till 31th August
Curators: Eva Khachatryan, Jahangir Selimkhanov, Wato Tsereteli
Kordegarda’s Curators: Magda Kardasz, cooperation: Krzysztof GutfraĊski
Georgia:
"Satellite city" Gio Sumbadze
The artist on his work: “these images are my reflections on the urban space between Tbilisi and its satellite city Rustavi, its infrastructural details, its architecture mostly of soviet period and its slow disappearance and transformation into the new hybrid reality".
Armenia:
During the Armenian exhibition Vahram Aghasyan’s works will be presented.
“Bangladesh” synopsis
In Armenia perhaps the greatest heritage left from Soviet Union is the modern architecture. Bangladesh is one of such areas built in 80’s and resembles a small town not because of its size but with the symmetry of its identical tall buildings. ”The citizens" themselves have given this sarcastic name to their "city", the hottest and the farthest district of Yerevan.
Ruins of our time
While traveling outside of the Yerevan, passing by the deserted landscapes one can see bus stops, standing in the middle of nowhere. Passers-by can see each of them for a few seconds only, but always will notice them, because of their unusual, overdone architecture. With some exceptions we are trained to see the bus stops as purely functional examples of architecture and design, they must be easily noticeable for people at the extent that when one intend to use them shouldn’t miss them. So they are colorful and comfortable not ambitious or grand at all. These bus stops in Armenia are a little different, because of their form. Most of them were built from 1960’s to 1980’s. This sector of urban planning and architecture was maybe the most experimental of all the other architecture that is present in Armenia; as a result we have the bus stops made of stone or concrete sometimes with weird constructivist architecture.
Azerbaijan:
“City Signs”
Chosen works of Chingiz Babayev, Orhan Huseynov and Jeyhun Ojadov use lapidary urban visual language, a simple and instant way to address messages to large audiences, for reflecting complex and subtle concepts of self-orientation in inner and outer space, mapping memories and life scenarios, positioning oneself vis-à-vis dramatic changes in the identity and in the set of basic values etc.
“A Dream City”
Accidental prints of photos by Farid Mamedov/ picked up by Tarlan Gorchu Tarlan Gorchu in this series performs just one of a complex series of skills which an artist needs to create an artwork – the ability to select from among myriads of images the right ones. What is presented as a surrealistic manipulation of overlapped and coincided images, which creates a fanciful and thrilling effect of blurred ‘out-of focus’ consciousness, is in fact a fine selection of very few randomly expressive sheets chosen from among hundreds in the waste of typographic production at the backyard of the printing house in Istanbul where Farid Mamedov’s glossy coffee-table book on Baku was under printing. So simple: an artist who has an eye for the unusual and the hyper-real offers us a mystical journey into a dream city called Baku.
Satellite City / Gio Sumbadze
Ruins of our time / Vahram Aghasyan
Am I lovin it / Chingiz Babayev