CHIMPANZEE IN THE CARPET ROOM - Farid Rasulov
CHIMPANZEE IN THE CARPET ROOM - Farid Rasulov
Carpet Interiors is a series of works featuring a European-style living room completely covered with Oriental-style carpets. Fascinated by the clash of Eastern and Western aesthetics, Farid Rasulov created surreal spaces inhabited by colourful animals, as if suspended in anticipation of something unrevealed.
A patterned room can be both a cage and a sanctuary. It can be a place of sadness and loneliness, as well as a place of calm and serenity.
In these spaces, the artist used traditional carpets from different cultures, such as Azerbaijani, Turkish, Persian, Indian, European and Western interior items. Bringing the intellectual objects of the East and West into the space, the artist wanted to create a space in which these two cultures would coexist together, creating a harmonious relationship.
These digital projects were also realized as installations in the form of real carpet rooms and were exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale where the artist represented his country.
ARTIST BIO
Farid represented Azerbaijan at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Rasulov is active across a wide range of artistic media – large scale paintings, installations, 3D graphics, animation and sculpture. His works are usually intellectually provocative.
Not accidentally, this conceptual artist stubbornly denies charges of his art being multi-layered and profound. He insists that he has meant absolutely nothing, that he simply replicated the commonplace things that he saw around him.