There is a story to tell
The ambition of this project is to introduce the world to Armenian Art history and create a new level of engagement with Armenia’s cultural identity.
Armenian art in the 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries showcases a vast range of works from a diverse geography, with fascinating stories to tell. It encompasses a large and eclectic range of artists and this project serves as an important vehicle for their wider international recognition.
While the world is very familiar with Arshile Gorky and well aware of Ara Guler, Paul Giragosian, Yousef Karsh , Sergei Paradjanov, Martiros Saryan and Minas
Avetisyan, Modern Armenian Art has never been explain its modern experience to a non-Armenian audience. There fore intention is to assert that Armenian Art has contributed to the evolution of Modernism to show the abundance of native and diasporic talent that has contributed so much to international high Modernism and beyond Read More About Us
The fact that so many Armenian artists formed numerous Diaspora has complicated the assessment of their contribution to twentieth century art and dampened their economic value.
The great range of work covering a vast geography characterises Armenian art in the twentieth century, and it may be that there are numerous lines of enquiry and many stories to be told. There are of course events that have had a particular impact on Armenians that should be highlighted, certainly as much as that community’s contribution to the mainstream. Read More About Us
Project also aims to contribute to empowering Armenian contemporary artists, contribute to their promotion and visibility, entering the international art market Read More click to Page 2
In addition to showing Armenian artists who have an international reputation, the intention of this exhibition is to also identify and elevate the status of lesser known Armenian Modern and Contemporary artists who have made a contribution to Art history but have not received the reputation that they deserve.
Paul Guiragossian
( 1926-1993 )
The Funeral Of Abdel Nasser
An artist of the stature of Paul Guiragossian (1926-93) has been awarded a mere four solo shows to date, and yet his role in defining Middle Eastern modernism has been very significant.
HENRIK SIRAVYAN
( 1928- 2001 )
Parajanov and the Beauties
oil on canvas
1993
The philological writings of the Mekhitarist Congregation were pivotal in the nationalist discourse of the 18th and 19th centuries, connecting the imagined homeland to reality. However, it was the pragmatic global Armenian networks, spanning from Madras to London, that solidified Armenia’s presence in global consciousness
The most famous name of the five painters included in this exhibition was that of Minas Avetisian, Henrik Siravian, Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikian, Alexander Grigorian, Arpenik Ghapantsian.”
Arshile Gorky
( 1904-1948 )
The Artist and His Mother
1926