The first gala - an exhibition of Armenian abstract artists will be held in Yerevan on August 17 to September 2 at the Museum of Modern Art. Henry Igityan, said to journalists on Friday in the International Press Center "News" Armenian sculptor and engineer Gevorg Gasapyan.
As the news of Armenia, he said, the exhibition will feature 45 paintings and 10 sculptures of 25 artists and three sculptors, Armenian descent from different countries, in particular the U.S., Canada, Armenia, the European states.
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Gasapyan noted that the exhibition will be held with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia, expressing the hope and support of the Ministry of Diaspora.
He recalled that a year ago on his initiative was set up the Armenian society abstract from different countries and launched a website
http://armenianabstractartists.am/.
In turn, the artist Khachatur Martirosyan said that the exhibition will enable the society to join the modern art.
"Our society is often not informed about abstract art and culture. Armenian artists - abstract artists, who were well known abroad, is not known. We should be able to make a recovery, we should be able to "break the ice" ", - said Martirosyan.
According to the artist Garik Karapetyan, the exhibition coincided with the 100 anniversary of the Wassily Kandinsky abstract.
He emphasized that the abstraction in Armenia there are about 30 years, and a gala - the exhibition will allow fans to find their abstractionist art.
Dear friends from Yerevan, who will be at the exhibition, write a few words .. (pictures, if possible). (EA)