Exhibition of Turkish artist opens in Baku

An exhibition by Turkish painter Serhan Cifticiguzeli “Turkish illumination and miniature” was opened on Thursday at the Yunus Emre Cultural Center in Azerbaijan`s capital.

Addressing the opening ceremony, director of the Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Center Seriyye Gundogdu highlighted the facility`s activity.

“Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Center has opened 35 representative offices in 30 countries of the world. Our main aim is to popularize the Turkish culture and to develop the cultural relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey. The exhibition is the first event, which the Yunus Emre Cultural Center organized here.”

Serhan Cifticiguzeli noted that this was his first exhibition in Baku, which displays 16 art pieces.
“Ottoman Miniature or Turkish miniature was an art form in the Ottoman Empire. It was a part of the Ottoman Book Arts together with illumination (tezhip), calligraphy (hat), marbling paper (ebru) and bookbinding (cilt). The words taswir or nakish were used to define this art in Ottoman language. The studios the artists worked in were called Nakkashane. Turkish or Ottoman illumination covers non-figurative painted or drawn decorative art in books or on sheets in muraqqa or albums, as opposed to the figurative images of the Ottoman miniature. In Turkish it is called “tezhip”, Arabic word which means “ornamenting with gold”. It was a part of the Ottoman Book Arts together with the Ottoman miniature (taswir), calligraphy (hat), Islamic calligraphy, bookbinding (cilt) and paper marbling (ebru).”


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Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan Ismayil Alper Coskun also made a speech.
The exhibition will last till Saturday.