YARAT`s YAY! Gallery presented famous artist Museyib Amirov’s solo exhibition titled “Two states of being”. Exhibition will last till March 19.
In the world almost always there are two alternating states of being – peace and commotion. Each day of our existence we find ourselves travelling a road that leads from the secure stability of the past into the uncertainty of the future and this motion is what we call life… It would seem that this exhibition by the artist Museyib Amirov “Two States of Being” sprang to life somewhere at the crossroads of times, where the bustling, noisy present and the past steeped in misty romance intersect.
Museyib Amirov was born in 1963 in Baku to the family of the famous artist Arif Amirov. Graduated from Art College and the Azerbaijan State University of the Arts. Has exhibited in the USA, France, Germany, Lithuania and his works are held in many museums and private collections around the world.
The artist conveys the dynamism and vibrant beauty of the present day by use of heavy, deep brush strokes. Hordes of human beings burdened with neuroses and worries run between madly speeding cars while the dark sky above their heads swarms with buzzing helicopters. There is nowhere to escape from this buzzing and nowhere to hide from the obsessions and compulsive thoughts that pursue the modern person tied to smart gadgets and enslaving technologies. Civilization spurred on by its own desires and ambitions is dashing headlong somewhere, strangely resembling a great ship hurtling aimlessly into a storm and fog.
“Two states of being” gone by as embodied by the author in golden and azure hues. The summer landscapes are interspersed with dozens of images and subjects that hark back to childhood.
Museyib succeeds in reconciling us with the need to live simultaneously in the past and the present, repenting and rejoicing, remembering and hoping.
Museyib Amirov is a collection of paradoxes. A dreamer, cherishing a touching faith in the idea of creating a gigantic iron bird that is capable of living dreamers like himself into the skies over Absheron. A workaholic who does not believe in the need for inspiration. A creative recluse, who by his own acknowledgment is capable of not leaving his workshop for months and a person with an amazing number of friends prepared to do anything for him.