THE FLYING CARPET
The Flying Carpet, an installation made of rope and copper, reproduces in full scale a portion of the wooden ceiling of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo made with the muqarnas decorative technique typical of Islamic architecture.
A project by Ararat – Stalker, the work was realised in 2000 with the participation of the Kurdish community exiled in Rome, becoming a symbol and messenger of brotherhood between peoples. The installation was displayed for the exhibition ‘Islam in Sicily, a garden between two civilisations’. Realised by the Orestiadi Foundation with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Sicilian Region, it travelled for over ten years to the main capitals of the Arab world before being presented, with some previously unseen sections, in 2012 in Gibellina.
The Flying Carpet, an installation of rope and copper, reproduces a life-sized portion of the wooden ceiling of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo, crafted using the muqarnas technique typical of Islamic architecture.
Created by Ararat – Stalker in 2000 with the participation of the Kurdish community exiled in Rome, it symbolizes and conveys a message of brotherhood among peoples. The installation was featured in the exhibition ‘Islam in Sicily, a garden between two civilizations,’ organised by the Orestiadi Foundation with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Sicily Region. It toured major capitals of the Arab world for over ten years before being displayed in Gibellina in 2012, with some previously unseen sections.