Vagrich Bahchanyan. Evening memory. NCCA

[Vladimir]

January 22, the NCCA was evening in memory Vagricha Bahchanyana. November 12, he was gone, January 22 - was to be 40 days. Well, almost.

By those who knew him. We watched the outline of the future movie about Vagriche ( "Fingerprint Vagricha?", Directed by Andrew Zagdansky?), Frames the few television interviews, friends remembered his jokes, tricks - Bahchanyanu would have liked.
Evening led Vitali Patsukov. He remembered 1960. Vagrich arrived in Moscow, was virtually homeless for a while lived in Patsyukova in the apartment.

What is love? He loved Chekhov. Loved Dadaists. Max Ernst, Magritte. I loved the art of Armenia. He especially liked American abstract expressionist Armenian Arshila Hills. With his wife Irene loved to stroll through Central Park in New York and pick berries, which later made jam. He loved to work. Daily did the picture and "a day without a line" (it was his performance of such a text, where the Work is a diary in the cat every day it was written "This line is written in such a day ..." and so 365 times.)

Preserved his recording sessions "unconscious drawing" - corporate reception Vagricha. Essence - in the course of a telephone conversation with an interesting conversationalist (and such talk did not last five minutes), the artist also drew on some small format (in the film - a brush on something like a newspaper). Concentration - in conversation, and is responsible for drawing the unconscious. That's the end of the conversation remained on the paper chart unconscious thoughts.

To be continued ... Vladimir Bogdanov

On photo - Vitali Patsukov, Michael Odnoralov, Igor Makarov, Gregory (Grisha) Bruskin, Alla Silaeva.