The MEGAPOLIS exhibition, a debut project of young curator Farid Mammadzada, has opened in Baku Museum of Modern Art.
Executive Director of the Museum of Modern Art Khayyam Abdinov, Honored Artist Sabina Shikhlinskaya and curator of the exhibition Farid Mammazade gave information about the project.
MEGAPOLIS project addresses one of the problematic points of modernity – the theme of the traumatic relationship between the modern city-megopolis and the human being.
Exhibition project MEGAPOLIS is based on the artworks of two contemporary Azerbaijani artists – Mammad Mustafayev and Niyaz Nadjafov. Specific approach towards spatial solution underlies common combat of humanity against depression and urban areas-implied seeming depression and desperation. This project seeks to highlight the challenge of interaction of human souls with urban resident areas of megapolises. The art pieces of the above-stated authors address two aspects of the issue, namely macro-level and micro-level-oriented points. Also, MEGAPOLIS questions professional and public perception of the idea above, perception that happens beyond the windows and over the walls of enormous skyscrapers-obsessed megacities laying their foundation slabs on the conscience and souls of the human race.
Farid Mammadzada`s curatorial idea was born as a result of a master-class “Curatorial and mediator practices in contemporary art” hold by Honored Artist of Azerbaijan and curator Sabina Shikhlinskaya, which took place in March 2013 in Baku within the educational program of nonprofit organization YARAT Contemporary Art Space.
Curatorial ideas of three master class participants were deemed worthy of realization and will be presented on the basis of the Museum during 2014. MEGAPOLIS exhibition continues a series of projects of young curators and all the paintings are part of the collection of Museum of Modern Art. The young author Aykhan Khalilov's movie-interview with artists Niyaz Najafov and Mammad Mustafayev also took part in MEGAPOLIS project.
The exhibition will last until 22 September.
 

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