Lecture to Explore Azerbaijani Carpet Weaving in Contemporary Art

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Azerbaijani artist, curator and lecturer Emin Mammadov will give a lecture on how traditional carpet weaving informs contemporary art at the National Ethnographic Museum on Tuesday.
The lecture “From Heritage to Contemporary Art” will take place in the museum’s Winter Garden, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum said.
Mammadov will explore how contemporary artists and designers draw on the distinctive motifs, techniques and symbols of Azerbaijani carpet weaving. He will focus on Azerkhalcha, a company that preserves traditional handweaving techniques and collaborates with established and young artists.
The lecture will feature Rashad Alakbarov’s 44 collection, Aidan Salakhova’s Architecture of Memory project and Woman triptych, and Sema Mammadli’s Fruits collection. It will also cover collaborations with designer Rufat Ismayil and From Sketch to Carpet, a project by Faig Ahmed’s studio. Mammadov will show contemporary interpretations of traditional carpets, including a pixelated version of the Karabakh Ajdahali carpet.
The lecture will consider two ways of preserving cultural heritage through traditional designs, by reproducing them and by reinterpreting them in contemporary art. It will be given in English, the institute added.
Mammadov founded QGallery in Baku in 1999 and started a gallery initiative in Berlin. He has chaired Azerkhalcha since 2021 and has been vice president of ICOM Azerbaijan since 2019. He teaches graphic arts at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts and has worked as a curator and adviser on international exhibition projects, including Azerbaijani presentations at the Venice Biennale.

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