Batik and Kelaghai exhibition. Kelaghai: Silk Wings
On November 26, 18.00, the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum will hold the exhibition Kelaghai: Silk Wings timed to the 5th anniversary of inclusion Art and Symbolism of Azerbaijani Kelaghai, its production and the wearing within the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The exhibition displays more than thirty samples of kelaghai (shawl) from the private collection of Inna Kostina, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan, as well as her thirty author panels made on silk in batik technique.
A synthesis of the traditional, that is, classical, and the author, that is, contemporary approach to the silk drawing art is the exhibition’s core concept. Inna Kostina’s author panels, created especially for this exhibition, adjoin last-century kelaghais of Sheki and Basgal made in ancient technologies by different authors.
The exhibition also showcases Inna Kostina’s violet author kelaghai with golden ornaments created in 2003 at the Basgal Creative Forum in the Kelaghai Sericulture Center, founded by Rena Ibrahimbekova and Jalil Tarverdiev. There, Inna Kostina together with other local silk artists – T. Aghababaeva, I. Zeynalova, and F. Mammadova – created kelaghais from their own sketches based on ancient technologies.
