Art Exhibit and Musical Concert
A Display of Fences by KAREN ALEKYAN
Karen Alekyan was born in 1975, in Gyumri, Armenia. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan, 1998-2004. Since 2009, Alekyan has worked as a lecturer of graphic art and design at the Gyumri branch of the Academy of Fine Arts. His solo exhibitions include the After the Earthquake exhibit in Venice (1989); the Art College of Gyumri (2002); the Future that Has Passed in Yerevan (2007); and in Punta del Este, Uruguay (2011).
Alekyan also has participated in several group exhibitions including Pop-Art at the Aslamazyan Sisters’ House Museum in Gyumri ; Installation at Gallery 25 in Gyumri; the International Biennial in Gyumri; Feminism at One Gallery in Yerevan; and Twentieth Anniversary of the Gyumri Earthquake in Yerevan, in 2008; Social Mutation and The Way It Is exhibitions in Yerevan (2009); and the International Biennial in Gyumri, Rusty Pumpkin and the Body, and New Figurative Art in Armenia exhibition in Yerevan in 2010.
Internationally, Alekyan has exhibited in A Book About Death at the Firehouse Gallery in New York, Black and White exhibit at the historic museum of Florida in Uruguay, and Me Among My Friends Open Personalities exhibit at the M.A. Vrubel Museum in Omsk, Russia.
A Display of Fences offers a chronicle of post-Soviet times. Commonly found throughout Armenia’s landscape, such fences are built from junk or residual material of Soviet industrial production. They can be compared to contemporary art designed to transfer the viewer into the past, both mentally and emotionally. Their presence also speaks of a still dynamic and functioning regime where oppositional paradigms like “us-versus them” continue to separate and divide.
HRACH VARDANYAN
Hrach Vardanyan was born in 1987 in Gyumri, Armenia. He attended the Gyumri branch of Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts, 2005-2010. During his years at the Institute, he founded the 15/3 Studio-Art Group.
Vardanyan has exhibited at the International Contemporary Art Biennial (2007, 2010). His other exhibitions include the international exhibit dedicated to Mozart’s 250th anniversary in Vienna, Austria (2006); Art Irrespective of Methods exhibition in Gyumri (2007); City exhibition in Gyumri (2007); Undercurrent Shifts in Yerevan (2008); City 2 (2008); Football Diplomacy, an interactive project with 15/3 (2009); and a solo exhibition in Fresno, California (2008).
CONCERT PROGRAM
Lilit Pipoyan, Piano and Voice
Manan Garukyan, Violin
Guerondi Antonyan, Cello
Nelly Manoukian, Flute
Lialusin by L. Pipoyan, medieval Armenian
Kaqavi pes by A.Ter-Ghevondyan, folk
Es darnum em du by L. Pipoyan
Serer im by L. Pipoyan, medieval Armenian
Mek or by L. Pipoyan
Mi arni, folk
Bari luys zabger by R. Melikyan
Ashnan gisher, folk
Hayreniqic heru by L. Pipoyan/Av.Isahakyan
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