"In my works, I strive to recreate the feelings that overwhelm me when I see various life situations taking place in the world. This is an understanding of how the world is ambiguous, with its beautiful expanses, blue skies, forests, and mountains. My native Karabakh, washed in red – the colour of blood… These are its mountains, shrouded in grey smoke of burnt forests, which is done by those, who call themselves human… all these colours are mixed, complementing each other, recreating life itself, with all its joys and troubles. These are my feelings, my response to what is happening around me expressed in colours, like music, the sound of notes conveys human emotions, and so does my work with its visual impact, conveying my experiences and feelings through colours." Ayan Aziz Mammadova
Reeversals Group exhibition / November 11 – December 11, 2022 / Galeria Azur Berlin
The contemporary and conceptual richness of visual arts leads to the possibility of using many adjectives, adverbs, or metaphors to evaluate an artistic piece. Aesthetics becomes a research topic in itself.
From a radical time position, a group of artists alter traditional ideas of representation and explore the importance of destabilizing canons’ conventional scenes; while others select an image, a piece of the past that will serve as the basis for future new work. Both locate the “vanishing points” and mark the position of the horizon, manipulating the elements on the scene to begin to reveal an original image that will soon be reconstructed into a new piece.
Reversals refers to a back-and-forth process in the artwork. While we usually might think of developing a painting or image from raw materials and displaying them in an image that has been already created, the processes in Galería Azur Berlin’s new exhibition suggest the opposite: The deconstruction of the image found through forced error, gaming or sabotage, takes the image down in a different and challenging path.on the scene to begin to reveal an original image that will soon be reconstructed into a new piece.
Reversals refers to a back-and-forth process in the artwork. While we usually might think of developing a painting or image from raw materials and displaying them in an image that has been already created, the processes in Galería Azur Berlin’s new exhibition suggest the opposite: The deconstruction of the image found through forced error, gaming or sabotage, takes the image down in a different and challenging path.
Ceres González
Art Curator and Art Critic. GALERIA AZUR
STUDIO OTTO NAGEL E.V. (GERMANY)
HIRO (JAPAN)
BELLULE ART (FRANCE)
PIA BOE (DENMARK)
PAUL ANTÓN (SPAIN)
ALDO PARVILLEZ (FRANCE)
AYAN AZIZ MAMMADOVA (AZERBAIJAN)
CHAU LE THAI HUYEN (VIETNAM)
RENATA DYK (POLAND)
ELLYA ZILSKY (FRANCE)
KUNST-SCHUBERT (GERMANY)
MANOMONO (GERMANY)
PIEN DE HAAS (NETHERLANDS)
ARÃO PINTO (GERMANY)
SANA JABER (LEBANON)
MAGDALENA BAUTSCH (POLAND)
PALINA KASINO (GERMANY)
LUMINAR (ITALY)
LILU (GERMANY)
SCOTT SOARES (CANADA)
JEAN-FRANÇOIS HOCQ (BELGIUM)
PULIAFICO (ITALY)
CAROLINA GYNNING (SWEDEN)
CAROLA VON SEHERR-THOSS (GERMANY)
JASON KANAGINIS (GREECE)
GUADALUPE (ARGENTINA)
GABRIELLE SIMONE NISENBOIM (USA)
ARTAMARA (USA)