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On December 19, the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum held the opening ceremony of a solo exhibition by artist Emil Aziz titled Pattern and Silhouette.
The Director of the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, Honored Worker of Culture, Amina Melikova; PhD in Art History, Professor, Rabiyat Aslanova, and Deputy of the National Assembly, Honored Artist, Chair of the Union of Artists of Nakhchivan, Ulviyya Hamzayeva delivered speeches at the event. They emphasized the importance of preserving of national carpet heritage, its continuation in contemporary art, and, the role young artists play in this process. They also underlined the relevance of the idea and content of the exhibition.
The exhibition features 50 works by the author, distinguished by their thematic diversity.
The main idea of the exhibition, which presents the rich cultural heritage of Karabakh in a contemporary visual language, is to merge the memory preserved for millennia by carpet ornaments with the aesthetic sensibilities of the 20th–21st centuries.
Karabakh horses depicted in harmony with ancient carpet patterns, as well as portraits of women, hold a special place in the exhibition. The movement, strength, and poetic silhouette of the horse are in harmony with the structured rhythm of the ornaments. In other works, carpet motifs are presented as expressions of a woman's identity, spirit, connection to the past, and modes of self-expression in the modern world.
Pattern and Silhouette, where tradition meets modernity, is an artistic manifesto that demonstrates how Karabakh’s cultural treasures are both preserved and reinterpreted for the future.
The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum consistently supports young artists who create new works inspired by our nation’s rich carpet heritage. In this regard, the Pattern and Silhouette project is another noteworthy event in the contemporary presentation of national heritage.
The exhibition is on until December 21.
