OREANDA-NEWS. December 5, 2007. On December 03-05 3rd International Contemporary Art Festival “Aluminum-2007” took place in Baku. This year’s Festival was held under the name “Realities of Dreams”.

 In the Festival events along with Azerbaijani artistes took part painters and art critics from Russia, USA, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Turkey, Korea and Israel. Opening ceremony took place at the Shirvanshakh Palace. In the frame of Festival’s program art exhibitions was opened in the galleries “Baku”, “Absheron”, “The new gallery”, Museum Center and the Contemporary Arts Center. In the Contemporary Arts Center concert of vanguard music was held.

 The Festival “Realities of Dreams” was organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Youth and Sport and Creative Association “Wings of Time”. The main purpose of this project – development of contemporary arts in Azerbaijan and establishment of the cultural ties between countries.

AZEL Company became technical sponsor of the Festival and supported it with the audiovisual equipment – screens, projectors, DVD players. According to Igor Yakovenko, – “we are happy to support this event. Contemporary art is an integral part of our society and became more popular in Azerbaijan. We hope that this Festival will be successful and wish long life to this project”. Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev expressed its thanks to AZEL for support and presented diploma.