THE FIBERS OF BAKU: A PORTRAIT OF THE CITY

ARAT Contemporary Art Organization Education Deparment delightes to announce a presentation by Italian artist Paola Anziché, who is currently the artist-in-residence at YARAT Contemporary Art Organisation as part of collaboration with FARE, Milan.

The work will be shown from Thursday 12th February at Kichik QalArt Gallery and will run until 19th February. The artist will also be giving an informal talk on the opening night at 19:30, in which she plans to frame her current work with a personal introduction and some background on her development as an artist, as well as sharing her experiences of her residency in Baku.

CONCEPT:  Using the large space of the gallery, Paola is looking to create an unconventional portrait of Baku using several elements which relate to traditional local fabrics as well as to architectural features of the city.

The title of the exhibition describes the approach she has used in Baku: she looked for local fibres, including wool, closely linked to the cultural origins and identity of Azerbaijan. As her ideas developed and evolved during her time in Baku, so too these aerial sculptures took shape in her imagination and then in reality. ‘The Fibres of Baku’ is an exploratory portrait that honours Paola’s personal cultural experience and the people she has met in this town.