CULTURE
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF “GALA” GALLERY MARKED
The gallery director Eldaniz Babayev told of the work done for the past five years. He said that various contests of fine arts and arts and crafts, photo exhibitions were organized in the gallery that has begun its activity since October 1998 with the exhibition entitled “Azerbaijan by the eyes of young painters”. Aside from this, the “Gala” prepared and issued fine arts almanac in 2002 containing the life and creative activity of Azerbaijani painters and album under the title “Poets of Turkey and Azerbaijan” based on the graphic works of famous painter, professor, honored painter Adil Rustamov. The works of painters from India, Estonia, Turkey, Iran, Romania, Russia and other countries were also exhibited at the exposition.
In the past years, the special attention was paid to creativity of children and youth. The gallery maintaining close ties with the children’s schools of arts has conducted a series of actions to spot young talents.
People’s painter, State Prize laureate Tair Salahov, chief of the Baku Culture Department Hasanaga Gurbanov, painter Adil Rustamov and others congratulated the employees of the gallery “Gala” on the jubilee and stressed its services in popularizing the works of fine arts and creative activity of Azerbaijani painters.
Then, the catalogue telling about the 5 anniversary of gallery’s activity was presented.