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Museum of Modern Art in Baku, Azerbaijan

Museum of  Modern Art in Baku, Azerbaijan has been opened in Baku by the initiative of first lady Mehriban Aliyeva and with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Fund. The museum basis – is the collection of the best works of painting and sculpture of Azerbaijan avant-guardists from the 2nd half of the 20th century up to now. The collection shows aspirations, strivings, and freedom of the human soul.

Museum of  Modern Art in Baku is designed as a single organism combining art and sculpture, design and architecture.

The author of the museum concept, architecture and design, the collection and exposition selection is the artist Altay Sadikh-zadeh. The main idea assumes the following: the halls without an angle, open passages make the review perspective and multidimensional and creates the effect of labyrinth; the bending walls in different angles make an illusion of continuous movement. There are no confined spaces in the museum. A two-storey building is designed as a whole with an architectural linking device – an art-object of “forgotten staircase”. Another joining factor is the color –every part of the museum is white.

Museum Of Modern Art In Baku, Azerbaijan
Museum Of Modern Art In Baku, Azerbaijan
Museum Of Modern Art In Baku, Azerbaijan
Museum Of Modern Art In Baku, Azerbaijan
Museum Of Modern Art In Baku, Azerbaijan
Museum Of Modern Art In Baku, Azerbaijan
Museum of Modern Art in Baku, Azerbaijan openness to new trends and experiments gives a possibility to get acquainted more closely with peculiar works of such artists, as Rasim Babayev, Ashraf Murad, Gennady Brejatjuk, Fazil Najafov, Mamed Mustafaev, Aga Oussejnov, Ali Ibadullaev, Mir-Nadir Zeynalov, Fuad Salayev, Farhad Halilov, Darvin Velibekov, Eldar Mamedov, Mikail Abdurahmanov, Museib Amirov, Mahmud Rustamov, Huseyn Hagverdi, Eliyar Alimirzayev, Rashad Babayev, Altay Sadikh-zadeh whose works in the context of the Azerbaijan painting of 1960-70s amaze with the novel approach. The project’s main objective is the protection and development of the Azerbaijan school of painting, including the support program of young, bright and already recognized artists, such as Niyaz Najafov, Rashad Babayev, Vugar Muradov, whose works are also exposed in our Museum. Nevertheless, the Museum exposition has products of great European masters – founders of avant-garde style in the world art – Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall. Also the classics of the western realism are presented by several pictures from private collection. In the concept of the Museum the key idea was a special approach in the formation of a special space for framing of modern Azerbaijan art, avoiding of analogy to well known modern European museums.

The Azerbaijan fine arts could be named as “internal memory” of our people. Also the collection of Azerbaijan classics of figurative art in this period is presented, they are: Sattar Bahlulzade, Tair Salahov, Mikail Abdullaev, Huseyn Aliev, Tagi Tagiev, Nadir Abdurahmanov, Elmira Shahtahtinskaya, Nadir Kasumov, Oktay Sadikh-zadeh, Tokay Mamedov, Togrul Narimanbekov, Omar Eldarov. The Museum of Modern Art is an original well of masterpieces of the modern epoch, presenting over 800 works of art of the Azerbaijan artists and sculptors of the last 70 years. The part of the exposition includes “the unknown” layer of national art referring to the layer of “another” art, generated at period of the Soviet regime. These are unique works of Ashraf Murad, Kamal Ahmed, Mirjavad Javad, Rasim Babayev, which have been rescued by the Museum from inevitable destruction. The presence at the exposition of the works of these masters is a tribute of historical justice.

Source: Museum of Modern Art

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