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29/5/2013

Love me, Love me not

Arsenale, Venezia

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a cura di Dina Nasser-Khadivi

Prodotto e supportato da YARAT - un’organizzazione non-profit dedicata al sostegno e alla comprensione dell'arte contemporanea in Azerbaijan e alla creazione di una piattaforma per l'arte azera sia a livello nazionale che internazionale - Love me, Love me not offrirà nuove prospettive sulle diverse e culturalmente ricche culture dell'Azerbaijan e dei suoi vicini. Attualmente curiosità e pregiudizio convivono ancora in questa regione; le opere in mostra daranno una visione penetrante delle dinamiche di ogni nazione, portando alla luce aspetti dimenticati o sconosciuti della storia e dimostrando l'ampiezza della visione e della creatività in gioco entro i loro confini.

Artisti: Faig Ahmed Rashad Alakbarov Afruz Amighi Kutluğ Ataman Shoja Azari Rashad Babayev Mahmoud Bakhshi Ali Banisadr Ali Hasanov Orkhan Huseynov Sitara Ibrahimova Aida Mahmudova Taus Makhacheva Farhad Moshiri Farid Rasulov Slavs and Tatars Iliko Zautashvili

Organizzazione: YARAT Contemporary Art Organisation
www.loveme-lovemenot.com
www.yarat.az

Immagine: Faig Ahmed. Untitled, 2012, Thread Installation, Dimensions Variable. Courtesy of the artist and YAY Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan

YARAT Contemporary Art Organization

Davud Gambarzade
Director international programmes
TEL +994504373970 ext.14
FAX +99412 5051414
EMAIL davud.g@yarat.az
ADDRESS Baku, Azerbaijan: 31/33 A.Zeynalli AZ1000

FOR PRESS INFORMATION
Anna Cusden or Sophie Furse at Pelham Communications
TEL +44 20 8969 3959
EMAIL anna@pelhamcommunications.com
or sophief@pelhamcommunications.com
Elena Pardini at Lightbox Communications
TEL +39 04 1241 1265
EMAIL elena.pardini@light-box.it

Anteprima stampa 30 maggio ore 11-14
Inaugurazione su invito 30 maggio ore 17-20

Tesa 100, Arsenale Nord
Campo Arsenale
h. 10 – 18, chiuso lunedì (esclusi 3 giugno e 18 novembre)

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curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi

Love Me, Love Me Not is an unprecedented exhibition of contemporary art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours, featuring recent work by 17 artists from Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Russia and Georgia. The exhibition is produced and supported by YARAT, a not-for-profit contemporary art organisation based in Baku, and curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi.

The works presented space between diverse range of media and subject matter, with video, installation and painting all on show. Pieces range from those steeped in historical reference, to those with more site-specific responses through to those which are inspired by personal history.

Faig Ahmed takes the motifs found in Azerbaijani carpets as a starting point for his work, reinterpreting these to underline the rapid shift Azerbaijan is experiencing towards modernity. His thread installation Untitled (2012) deconstructs the notions of craft inherent to the traditional process of weaving, extending the usual two-dimensional plane of the finished carpet across a threedimensional space. Kutluğ Ataman’s video installation Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Column (2009) is inspired by the Trajan Column in Rome: a tower of 42 used TV screens each feature the silent face a villager from Erzincan in Eastern Turkey, Ataman’s place of origin. This key work is both an attempt to show a story without narration as well as a tribute to the history of Anatolian people, who he sees as silenced throughout history. In his most ambitious project to date, Shoja Azari will show a specially commissioned film which recreates the Haft Paykar, an allegorical romance, which takes self-knowledge as the essential path to human enlightenment as its central theme. Ali Banisadr will be producing his largest work to date for the exhibition, in the form of a triptych inspired by the pervasive symbolism of fire and light. These elements, prevalent in both Azerbaijan and Iran, relate to the origins of Zoroastrianism as well as the etymology of ‘Azerbaijan,’ which derives from the Persian name for ‘Guardians of Fire’. Ali Hasanov uses a contemporary appropriation of everyday materials. His work Masters (2012) features hundreds of “veniki” (brooms made of bundled twig and common in post-Soviet countries) which are bound together to form a sculptural whole.

Taus Makhacheva will re-produce a film, recently shown at the Liverpool Biennale about an abandoned silk-road city Gamsutl (2012) through a young male protagonist who “dances” to enact the fragmented qualities of the city, now half forgotten. Slavs & Tatars’ installation entitled Molla Nasreddin The Antimodernist (2011) is a life size sculpture as a playground “ride” for adults and children alike and refers to the popular Sufi philosopher of the 13th century. Molla Nasreddin also refers to the legendary Azerbaijani satirical periodical of the early 20th century, which not only contributed to a crucial understanding of national identity, but offered a momentous example of the powers of the press. In their installation Love Me, Love Me Not, the collaborative pluck the petals off the past to reveal an impossibly thorny stem: entire metropolises are caught like children in the spiteful back and forth of a custody battle, representing the evolution of the region over time - a theme which is at the core of this exhibition.

Artists:
Faig Ahmed Rashad Alakbarov Afruz Amighi Kutluğ Ataman Shoja Azari Rashad Babayev Mahmoud Bakhshi Ali Banisadr Ali Hasanov Orkhan Huseynov Sitara Ibrahimova Aida Mahmudova Taus Makhacheva Farhad Moshiri Farid Rasulov Slavs and Tatars Iliko Zautashvili

YARAT Contemporary Art Organization

Davud Gambarzade
Director international programmes
TEL +994504373970 ext.14
FAX +99412 5051414
EMAIL davud.g@yarat.az
ADDRESS Baku, Azerbaijan: 31/33 A.Zeynalli AZ1000

FOR PRESS INFORMATION
Anna Cusden or Sophie Furse at Pelham Communications
TEL +44 20 8969 3959
EMAIL anna@pelhamcommunications.com
or sophief@pelhamcommunications.com
Elena Pardini at Lightbox Communications
TEL +39 04 1241 1265
EMAIL elena.pardini@light-box.it

Image: Faig Ahmed. Untitled, 2012, Thread Installation, Dimensions Variable. Courtesy of the artist and YAY Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan

Special Event
Thu, May 30 | 11am - 2pm, Press preview
Thu, May 30 | 5pm - 8pm, Private view, by invitation only

Tesa 100, Arsenale Nord
Campo Arsenale
Transport: Lines 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, Bacini or Celestia; shuttle from Arsenale-Press Office Biennale to Arsenale Nord every ten minutes

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