Space of the silhouette Print

Huseyn Hagverdi has worked with different media, including sculpture, drawing and created monumental art. He produced the statue of St. Maria at the Catholic cathedral in Baku and a monumental mosaic panel of the Caspian legend in the Sangachal oil terminal. In 2003 he was named the Honoured Artist of Azerbaijan. Haqverdi is equally proficient in sculpture, graphic work and painting. In ad­dition, he is an avid photographer and video artist. However, he is known to the majority of people, both in Azerbaijan and abroad, primarily as a sculp­tor and it was as such that he has participated, in numerous exhibitions and symposiums both in Azerbaijan and abroad since 1980. Huseyn Hagverdi has many smaller sized sculptures. However, he is equally suc­cessful in monumental works. Thus, his mosaic The Legend of the Caspian Sea was perfectly integrated into the territory of the Sangachal oil and gas terminal. Hagverdi is also the artist who created the statue of the Virgin Mary adorning the Baku Catholic Church. The generalized, laconic form of this massive sculpture is a reflection of Hagverdi’s general artistic taste. He develops any topic in depth, highlighting its most significant aspects and ignoring the trivialities. Throughout the past decade, Hagverdi has participated increasingly often in group exhibitions and solo shows, showcasing his graphic works and paintings as well as his particular concept of visual art. The huge canvases on which space is intricately distorted, reflect the multi-dimensional mosaic of the world. The most striking examples are his photographic compositions and video art for a project on which he collaborated with several other Azer­baijani artists entitled ‘USSR-remix’. Utilizing the same principle – uniting, as in a mosaic, diverse fragments to create a single composition – he has ap­proached his abstract monochromatic composition Our Time, which consists of five parts.