3rd Baku Public Art Festival: Ergin Çavuşoğlu (UK)
13 Jun - 05 Jul 15
YARAT Contemporary Art Space presents the 'LIQUID BREEDING anamorphic perspective floor drawing installation project by Ergin Çavuşoğlu (UK) 13 June 2015. Presentation will be organized as a part of in frame 3rd Baku Public Art Festival 'A Drop Of Sky' curated by Sara Raza.
Installation will be run showing in near Kichik Galart Gallery, Old City till 5 July 2015.
Launching the festival on 13 June, Turkish-Bulgarian artist Ergin Çavuşoğlu will present a special site-specific anamorphic perspective floor drawing within the Old City entitled ‘Liquid Breeding’ (2015). The work explores both the artist’s longstanding interest in the work of conceptual pioneer Marcel Duchamp and the vertical and horizontal expansion of Baku. Çavuşoğlu’s drawing has been appropriated from a three-dimensional architectural model, which the artist invites audiences to walk across. The everyday act of walking is recorded by a camera, which relays these recordings onto a monitor that presents the illusion of audiences walking within a sculpture. Çavuşoğlu will talk at the YARAT Contemporary Art Centre on 13 June about his work for the festival.
Commissioned by YARAT Contemporary Art Space, A Drop of Sky is the 3rd Public Art Festival in Baku and will run 13 June – 5 October 2015 Coinciding with the first European Games, and benefiting from the broad international audience who will be in Baku, over this period, the Public Art Festival will give both residents and visitors to Baku the chance to see a range of events held within the frame of the Festival. Participating artists include Wafaa Bilal, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Farhad Farzaliyev and Nazrin Mammadova. Artworks will be displayed at various locations throughout the city as well as through a web based technological component that explores the virtual public art platform. The festival will be accompanied by an education programme including a film club, artist talks and a two week workshop, AA Baku school: a collaboration with Architecture Association in London led by architects and AA tutors Omid Kamvari and Kasper Ax.
Ergin Çavuşoğlu (b.1968, Bulgaria) studied at The National School of Fine Arts ‘Iliya Petrov’, Sofia in the early 1980s. He consequently received a BA from the University of Marmara, Istanbul, MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD from University of Portsmouth. He currently lives and works in London, UK. Central to Çavuşoğlu’s conceptual art practice are themes that examine notions of place, liminality and the conditions of cultural production, which he has been exploring in a diversity of media, including narrative film, video and sound installations, sculpture and drawing. Çavuşoğlu represented Turkey at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. He was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2004, and in 2010 for Artes Mundi 4 – the UK's biggest international contemporary art prize.
Presentation day: June 13, 2015
Time: 17.00
Venue: near Kichik Galart Gallery, Old City (public area)
Contact phone: 012 505 1414
Free admission
