CESAR MAMMADOV
CESAR MAMMADOV
Cesar Mammadov Art
Cesar Mammadov Artist has his own methods for inviting viewers in a dialogue: visual, intellectual, emotional. Cesar sel essly depicts cities – Baku, Istanbul, Bodrum, Prague, Venice, Paris... But how does he depict them? It seems like he is looking from above. Here you can see the roofs of Prague, the Turkish city of Bursa, Paris... And each of them has its own identity.
Cesar Mammadov graduated from the Azim Azimzadeh State Art School and the Academy of Arts in Baku. Now, when he has his own path in the ne arts, it seems that everything in his life was predetermined since his birth: passion for drawing, professional development, and a healthy desire for professional self-affirmation. Everything could have been different. And Cesar, as it sometimes happens in the families of artists, could remain indifferent to brushes, paints, and the mystery of canvas. But it happened the way it happened, and the ne arts for him became a style, meaning and content of his own life. He is young artist now but has a track record of participation at various exhibitions, including his personal exhibitions. He also holds the order of Honour of Europe issued by the European Academy of Natural Sciences for taking part in the international youth art exhibition “Art without Borders” (1st place) in Hanover,
Germany. e order was presented to him by the head of the Baku branch of the European Academy. Cesar Mammadov, was born in an artist family, and took his professional lessons among artists, creative realization of his abilities – here and now. He believes his teacher and professional mentor was his father, Sakit Mammadov. Cesar Mammadov travels a lot around the world. Judging by his works, every city for him is a living being with its own special character. is is the character that Cesar likes to solve as an author. And it does not ma er where and in which country this city is located – in France, Italy, Turkey or Azerbaijan. It will have its own individual “face” in Cesar’s works: an intriguing, like in the “Tired City”, a ractive, like in the “Prague”, mysterious, like in the “Paris” and joyful, like in the “Venice”.
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Azerbaijan e artist's paintings a ract the interest of many art lovers, cultural gures around the world. Cesar perfectly conveys his love and beauty of Azerbaijan through his works. At rst glance, these paintings depict only blue sky, oating clouds, the breeze, so quiet water, small wave with a tiny “lamb” foams, beach umbrellas and boats. e colors lie on the canvas like iridescent fabric and smoothly ow into one another, said honored artist of Azerbaijan Bahram Bagirzade. Cesar’s paintings show the beauty of the Caspian Sea, so dear to the hearts of Azerbaijani people!
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Baku In fact, the Torgovaya Street, currently named a er Nizami. At home, people, lanterns, streamers are a familiar everyday occurrence. Houses brag about their historical sand facades, people slowly rush each on their own business. ey are Baku people, tourists, men, women – not in dialogue with us. We, together with the artist, seem to have glimpsed through a short episode of the city's summer life. Cesar Mammadov depicts boats, ships, longboats, shermen, beaches. is is also his favorite theme – the sea and boats. Only the sea is not depicted in full, only part of it is visible, which is represented by coastal life. But here, too, people, if they exist, never contact with us. ey are back to us. ey live their daily lives, allowing us to “spy on” them. ere are many bright colors, many joyful life-affirming tones. is is Cesar's world. e world, which he only partially opens for us, leaving something unsaid, something that has yet to be solved. And only thanks to this color riot we read his sensation and perception of the world that surrounds him. 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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On the seaside Here along the pier lined a boat. But these are motor boats. Boats of shermen. ey are ready to go to sea. But, as expected, at dawn. And now they doze under the midday sun. Boats, boats, barges... Sea transport. e artist writes them a lot, sel essly and with ecstasy. And at some point, you begin to feel that each of these boats, like people, also has its own character, its relation to the sea, and to people. ere is an almost mystical feeling – not people, but the main boats. And suddenly among the roofs of cities and boats you can see quite dierent works of the master such as Memoirs, Behind the Scenes, Breakfast, Rest, Queues!
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Boats A lot of them. Just like people in the city. ese are rowing boats. ey cling to each other, as if frozen in anticipation of their masters: people who live in this city or a shing village. ey froze in the midday sun, and seem to fall asleep, too. A peculiar boat esta!
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Paradigm is is the title of Cesar's personal exhibition (2018, Gallery 1969, Baku, Azerbaijan). Whether a tribute to fashionable outrageous style, or an a empt to philosophically re ect on his relationship with the world, the exposition opened in the Port Baku and dedicated to the Art Bahar festival was visited by many residents of Baku. His work is a racting visitors. ey have no internal tear, no hysterical protest, no denial of everything we call life. e artist intentionally evaluates or sees life from within. He looks from above. is is a view from the outside. And this view is not evaluative, it is ascertaining. e author is not a judge and not a participant in the process called “life”. He is a distant observer: a li le detached, even dispassionate because he does not tell us what is “good” and what is “bad”, leaving right to determine to us. And in this seemingly nonparticipation, he really looks somewhat dispassionate. However, only at rst glance: runaway and una ractive. In fact, everything is not so simple, not so serene and not so “pastoral” as it seems.
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
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Venice A lot of them. Just like people in the city. ese are rowing boats. ey cling to each other, as if frozen in anticipation of their masters: people who live in this city or a shing village. ey froze in the midday sun, and seem to fall asleep, too. A peculiar boat esta!
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Paris If you do not look closely and stay longer in front of the canvas, then at rst you see nothing but the architectural chiŃ of temples like the Basilica of Secret Coeur. But the more you stay in front of the canvas, you can see the houses adjoining the temple architecture, and the grace of the towers and church bell-towers. All of this forms an image of the city, which seems to be worshiping the temple in search of a mental defense.
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Prague It is amazing to see the details depicted with meticulous scrupulousness on part of the artist. At rst you only see one thing: roofs, roofs, and roofs. But gradually the city reveals itself to you, like a ower to the sun. And you notice a slow life: in the window, there is an artist and a model, just below to the le – instead of the shu ers is a portrait of either Alfonso Mucha or young Shakespeare, or someone else you do not know. But that's the point of the author's provocation! He makes you think, remember, look for associative moves, analogies, etc. If you glance at the facade of the house to the right, you will see three windows in which the life ows: the cat walks along the window sill of the open window, next to it is the girl si ing in the chair. In the third, there is a woman in the same position. And even further, downstairs, next to the neighboring building, is a grocery store, parked cars. Quiet and calmly measured life. Another day passes unnoticed...
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Morning A typical street cafe. People eat breakfast and talk to each other. ey have a whole day ahead for business, impressions, relationships. e characters in this picture also live their own lives, preventing us from becoming part of their action. And although one of them casts a completely disinterested, glancing look in our direction, we still do not exist for them.
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Memories In the Old Town, near the shelves with books sold, the old man stands with his back to us. He is as lonely as his dog si ing a li le further away, with his back to the old man. We do not see the old man's face but the back is more eloquent than any words and looks. He is selling old books, photos, antiquities. Seller of the past. For someone it is a simple category of times. For the old man this is his life. ere is a painful feeling of compassion and pity in this work.
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Queues ere is not a single person here. But there are people with their destinies, social belonging, characters. ere are women standing in the queue. We see their feet, shoes, bags, and the bo om of their clothes. And, seeing this, we understand everything about them: their social environment, characters, thoughts and feelings. It strikes, as always, the expressiveness of the details drawn by the artist. Here are elegant heels, an umbrella, a glove, pulling together a woman's wrist, and here are trampled shoes, tight stockings casually stretched to the feet, just a carelessly opened bag... Life. A wonderful job for student theater interpretations! ere is a plot. ere is intrigue. You can play.
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
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Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm 1
Lachin Oil on canvas 2017 | 170 x 110 cm
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Song about Love for Life Cesar Mammadov is one of most prominent young Azerbaijani brush masters. He is graduated from Art School named a er A.Azimzade and Academy of Arts of Azerbaijan and in recent years actively participated in art projects in Azerbaijan and abroad, where his works were exhibited at the most famous exhibition venues. I love this life with a enzy of love... – this line from Vladimir Nabokov’s poem, is most probably the best description of creative belief of artist. In Cesar Mammadov’s paintings joy of existence is combined with friendly interest in the smallest details of life, and the romantic glori cation of the beauty of nature goes hand-in-hand with display of creations of human hands on foreground; guratively, and sometimes in the literal sense of the word. If sea is depicted, it is full of multicoloured sails, and if it is a city, it is variegated and brightly colored with bright walls, balconies and posters. Even industrial landscapes such as panorama of oil eld, under the brush of artist gain a kind of businesslike or modest character, and yet vibrancy is achieved by carefully calibrated balance of clean and bright colours, with muted background nuances. Purity of tones is combined with clarity or even harshness of lines. e artist seems to offer his viewer a 1
Ayan Paster, paper 2020 | 170 x 110 cm
Ayan Paster, paper 2020 | 170 x 110 cm
fresh look at daily wonders of the world: over ow of sea water, mosaic of beach umbrellas, openwork masts, labyrinths of tiled roofs, perception of which involuntarily turns into “fray at the edges” with aging. ese landscapes are neither idealized, nor invented. is is a kind of Traveler’s Diary (Voyage), because Cesar Mammadov travels a lot. In his canvases Spain, Turkey, France, Italy, cities, mostly maritime towns, ports, with their troublesome daily life appears before us... Cities can be depicted in different ways, but in his canvases they are mostly lled with light and festivity to various extents. ey say, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it is true.
New York, 2017
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Con dent strokes of his still-life paintings and portraits are sprinkled with same love for life, equally full of light in terms of mood, sometimes paci cally calm, and sometimes bright and playful. Even smile of Her Majesty Queen looks more optimistic than usual in his portrait; by the way, in 2018, it was presented to Elizabeth II during Royal Horse Show Anniversary in Windsor. Cesar's drawings look pre y much interesting and rather unexpected contrast his paintings. Drawings are relatively new direction of his oeuvre, but he intends to continue to pay more a ention to it. In this technique, Cesar Mammadov continues to remain faithful to landscape genre; however, approach to re ecting reality is somewhat dierent and the reality acquires huge variety of mood tones with minimum of color shades. us, young artist Cesar Mammadov, having already demonstrated his individuality in the World of Art clearly enough, stays strong in the pursuit of his goals and is quite ready to please his audience with new creative surprises. Naila Bannayeva, art critic
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Life and creative chronologie Awards 2013 “Heydar Aliyev is the creator of the Azerbaijan Republic” Art Competition, winner, 1969 Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan International Art Exhibition, 1st medal, Dolmabahche Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 “Baku Lights” Art Competition, winner, 1969 Gallery, Baku, AzerbaijanDede Gorgud Prize, Baku, Azerbaijan 2016 “Vera” international art festival, “Aynur Gallery”, winner, Art Manege, Moscow, Russia 2017 Order of Honor and diploma for special services to scienti c research, European Academy of Sciences Special prize nominated, in frame World youth Day, Ministry of Sport and Youth of Azerbaijan “Dede Gorghud” prize nominated, 1969 Gallery, Baku, AzerbaijanInternational art exhibition, winner, Marmaris, Turkey 2018 Presented portrait to King Elizabeth"Painter of the year in the Turkish world", international award, Turkish world studies international academy of sciences, Ankara, Turkey
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Solo exhibitions 2014 Solo exhibition, 1969 Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan 2017 “Paradigm”, solo exhibition, in frame Art Bahar festival, Port Baku Mall, exhibition hall, Baku, Azerbaijan 2019 "Voyage" solo exhibition, Gallery 1969, Baku, Azerbaijan
Group exhibition 2004 “Nowruz” group exhibition, Museum Center, Baku, Azerbaijan 2005 “Italy by the Azerbaijani artists”, group exhibitions, Baku, Azerbaijan Azerbaijani artists exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Azerbaijani artists group exhibition, Moscow, Russia International group exhibition, Singapore, Malaysia 2011 International art exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2013 “Portraits’ Melody”, 3rd International Art Exhibition, Gabala, Azerbaijan “Heydar Aliyev is the creator of the Azerbaijan Republic” Art Competition, winner, 1969 Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan International Art Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey International Art Exhibition, 1st medal, Dolmabahche Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 “ e Art of Humanity”, Treviso, Luciano Bene on Collection, Collection book and exhibition “Baku Lights” Art Competition, group exhibition, 1969 Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan 2015 “Carrousel du Louvre”, contemporary art fair, Paris, France 5th International Art Exhibition, Gabala, Azerbaijan 2016 “Art without corners” International Art exhibition, Baku, Azerbaijan “Vera” international art festival, “Aynur Gallery”, winner, Art Manege, Moscow, Russia Exhibition e Royal Windsor Horse Show in commemoration of the 90th birthday H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
2017 Azerbaijan artists exhibition, Brussel, Belgium Art group exhibition, “Nour” Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan Art group exhibition, “White” Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan International art exhibition, “Mall Gallery”, London, UK 2018 "Art and sport" exhibition, National Gymnastics Arena, Baku, Azerbaijan 2019 Exhibition in frame Heydar Aliyev's 96 year Anniversary, Baku, Azerbaijan Sale exhibition organised by Ministry of Culture, Crystal Hall, Baku, Azerbaijan Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA), Mall Galleries, London, UK 2020 Annual Exhibition, e Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London, UK
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