WHILE BEING DIFFERENT

• Date:

  2022-04-30

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Qiz Qalasi Gallery (QGallery) from Azerbaijan's capital Baku is pleased to present the exhibition "While Being Different" at Q Gallery Berlin together with the Artists' Association of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the State Academy of Arts and the Union of Artists of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan. The exhibition will feature 38 works by Azerbaijani artist Leyla Azimbayova and 12 works by Berlin-based artist Sinanovska. Azimbayova is a young and talented artist. She was awarded the Honored Artist of the Union of Artists of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan and is also a member of the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan. Sinanovska is of Albanian descent. She received her art education at the State School of Applied Arts "August 2" in Skopje. She has been living and working in Berlin for many years, where she developed her own style of painting. Her works have been exhibited in various countries and are appreciated by collectors. While Being Different is a personal cosmography of the two artists. Azimbayova's paintings speak to our emotions. The artist is a storyteller who creates micro-worlds with her paintings, where something extraordinary has just happened or is about to happen. With her works she thematizes the love of life. It is the strongest and noblest of all feelings, as it gives meaning to our lives. Leyla Azimbayova celebrates form and tradition. Her art brims with boundless energy. In her works, Leyla invites us to engage in an endless dialogue, leaving room for our imagination. A strong sense of the flow of time permeates her paintings, portraits, the characters she creates and scenes of nature. The artist's still lifes, portraits and landscapes represent an unbound medium to mirror other ways of being. Sinanovska uses a different visual language. Her paintings are captured light and its manifold reflection in fog, water and the approaching darkness. Landscapes and objects dematerialize in the depicted atmosphere - they blur, one may hardly recognize them - fleeting hints of reality. The luminosity of the paintings comes from the use of oil paints in a glazing technique that creates transparency, atmosphere and the warm impulse of the paintings. While being different invites us to an exciting painterly journey through the artists' imagination.