Constellation

At Heydar Haliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2017
Curated by Ami Barak

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At Heydar Aliyev Center, November 2017 – February 2018. Curated by Ami Barak, exhibition included 40 works by 20 artists from the John Dodelande’s and his partners Collections. …Contemporary art in China has broken the stalemate 25 years ago thanks to the opening of the regime to the capitalist market system. The artistic avant-garde had the opportunity to openly manifest and to position itself towards more freedom and think and act with the present time. There are similarities and interesting parallels with the situation of the art in the Caucasus region but also valuable cultural differences. That is why an exhibition in such a context is a major symbolic event, re-establishing ancient connections between China and Caucasus. These territories were linked by the world’s oldest overland trade route, the Silk Road, formally established during the Han Dynasty, which linked China and the Middle East across the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus…