(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Laman Ismayilova
YARAT Contemporary Art Space is pleased to announce a new group
exhibition, titled 'In a Multiple-Perspective', Azernews
reports.
The exhibition includes newly commissioned as well as recent
works of 17 artists: Setenay Alpsoy, Selçuk Artut, Vahap Avşar,
Osman Bozkurt, İpek Duben, Işıl Eğrikavuk and Jozef E. Amado,
Nezaket Ekici, Cevdet Erek, Ahmet Rüstem Ekici and Hakan Sorar,
Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt, Hakan Gürsoytrak, Ali Kazma, Serhat
Kiraz, and Seyhun Topuz.
What does it mean to look vertically at the rapidly urbanizing
world today? How can the verticality of the earth be understood?
Until recently, the horizontal perspective dominated our world
knowledge, so geography was visualized on flat maps. The concept of
geopolitics refers to the traditional nation-state organized on
maps and globes.
The linear perspective was necessary for formulating modern
nation-states and the geographical and geopolitical sciences.
Geography and geopolitics explained how states fought for regional
power and territory in a horizontal worldview. Such a perspective
ignores the three-dimensionality of the world. Whereas there are
discussions about this in art, architecture, and geology, a linear
perspective still dominates the conversation.
British geographer Doreen Massey wrote in 1994 that 'borders do
not define places on a map.' Instead, 'they are moments articulated
in social relations and understanding networks.' Most of these
relationships in our age go through small places. The exhibition
'In a Multiple-Perspective' is an excellent example of their
interconnected relationships worldwide and their vertically
organized relationships to such points. The art project will
explore material and geographical multiperspective forms that
strongly overlap with the human experience.Vertical and other
spatial metaphors work to construct and recreate sociability; the
vertical derives directly from the physical experience of social
life and actively influences how people perceive and shape the
social and political world.
Conceptually, the exhibition suggests that the political,
social, and urban struggles of our rapidly urbanizing world can
only be understood through such a multidimensional and critical
perspective.The exhibition uses vertical metaphors to describe,
experience, and analyze all events, environments, and worlds and
problematize how this happens. When we achieve this, it will enable
us to“see the world again” by developing our own critical,
vertical, and indeed entirely voluminous views of city, politics,
life, and geography.
These various aspects and the tensions between them will also be
further addressed in an extensive public program of film
screenings, panel discussions and lectures.
The exhibition is curated by Fırat Arapoğlu.
Address: YARAT Contemporary Art Centre (National Flag
Square)
Dates: December 1, 2022 – April 30, 2023
Exhibition opens: Tuesday through Sunday, 12.00 – 20.00
COVID passport is required
YARAT is an artist-founded, not-for-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.
YARAT comprises YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Museum of
Azerbaijani Painting of the XX-XXI Centuries, ARTIM Project Space
and an extended educational and public programme. YARAT Art Centre,
a 2000 m² converted Soviet-era naval building, opened in March 2015
and is the organisation's main exhibition space.The exhibition
programme features new commissions by artists responding to the
region. It supports and provides access to artists from the region,
while engaging and introducing established, international
artists.
Museum of Azerbaijani Painting of the XX-XXI Centuries presents
a series of exhibitions with the works from the collection of
National Museums and Galleries and organize a public and education
programme of events running.
The Museum collaborates closely with educational institutions
and thanks to regular meetings with local and foreign art experts,
curators and artists, visitors of the exhibition had an opportunity
to learn more about the creative development of the artists and
their works exhibited in the museum.
In October 2015, YARAT opened ARTIM, a central, accessible and
dynamic space in Baku's Old City. ARTIM (meaning 'progress' in
Azerbaijani) shows experimental practices and new work by emerging
local and international artists. It features multiple small-scale
projects each year enabling young artists to engage in workshops
and studio practice to generate new ideas and works.
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.
The public programme invests proactively in building communities
and nurturing a wider understanding of, and participation in,
contemporary art.
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