Rashad Alakbarov

Rashad Alakbarov graduated from the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art in Baku (2001). He has worked with different media, including painting, sculpture, theatrical decoration, video art and architec­tural design, but the use of shadows in his installations has become the main direction in the artist’s conceptual work. The first public showing of this type of work was at the ‘Wings of Time’ exhibition in Baku in 2000. His works are held in private collections in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Italy and Russia.