"Edmond Petrosyan. Soul Troubles" and "Color Transformation" by Nina Gabrielyan Automatic translate

May 6 at 16:00 in the Gallery "Nagornaya" Association "Exhibition Halls of Moscow" will open two exhibitions - "Soul trouble" and "Color Transformation", opening the project "Private Collection", which introduce unique paintings of XX-XXI centuries., in which this distinctive tradition is creatively enriched by an individual author’s worldview.

Interest in the Armenian fine tradition is an actual phenomenon today. This is evidenced by the appeal of contemporary artists to the motives, plots, techniques and styles characteristic of this ancient tradition.

The works of Nina Gabrielyan, a supporter of the coloristic direction in painting, offer an analysis of color, its metamorphoses, transformations and transitions based on genre plots, landscapes, still lifes and portraits inspired by trips to Armenia, Europe and Russia. The artist’s paintings are characterized by a theatrical aspect. As art historian Olga Kostina notes, among Gabrielians, "each image is built on the principle of a scenic space, inside of which as if some kind of fabulous action is unfolding…".

The basis of chamber and lyric paintings by the representative of naive art Edmond Petrosyan (Diken) is a subtle philosophy. The laconicism of the images of his biblical plots, genre scenes, and unique mountainous nature reveals the roots of the artist’s self-knowledge, his emotional turmoil, analysis and reflection of today.

More than 60 works will find temporary shelter within the walls of the Nagornaya gallery.

The unifying leitmotif of the project is a special screening of a video about the art of Armenia.

The exposition is unique in that most of the work belongs to private collections, among which are the collections of Anatoly Kitashev and Tigran Shahramanyan. Many paintings first appeared before the general public. The exhibition will be accompanied by a program including lectures, thematic discussions, music evenings and excursions.

EVENT PROGRAM FOR EXHIBITIONS

SKETCHES
MASTER CLASS SKETCH (6+)

May 12, 19 (17.00-19.00)
May 7, 14, 21 (13.00-15.00)

The sketch workshops focused on the process of composing the composition and the technique of quick sketches. However, in May, in the main program of sketch workshops, the artistic solution of the composition will be considered, and we will also consider the concept of an animation language using examples of Robert Sahakyants cartoons, one of the most famous Armenian animators. Price: 300 R

May 12, 19. 00 “Pomegranate Color”. FILM SCREENINGS ON FRIDAY

Director Sergey Parajanov, USSR, 1968, 74 min. “Color of Pomegranate” (“Sayat-Nova”) is a poetic film parable by Sergei Parajanov about the great Armenian poet, master of love lyrics, Sayat-Nova, shot in 1968 at the “Armenfilm” film studio. The author’s name is “Sayat-Nova”. In the film “Pomegranate Color”, consisting of several miniatures, an attempt was made to show the spiritual world of the medieval Armenian poet Sayat-Nova who wrote in Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani languages, the story of his love, the poet’s attitude to religion, secular authorities, and people. In the absence of the usual literary monologue, all the decisions of the author of the film lie in a purely visual sphere. “The Color of the Pomegranate” became the main film of Parajanov: these are the revived medieval Armenian frescoes that turned cinema into poetry. The fate of the film “Pomegranate Color” was not easy: the world audience will see the film only in the early 80’s. From the miraculously preserved working materials, the paintings in the 90s will make an “authorial version”, and the director Levon Grigoryan, who worked as an assistant in the film, will assemble his “Memories of Sayat-Nova.” After the show, a discussion part is planned, where you can discuss your impressions and thoughts on the movie. Price: 100 / 50r

May 13 14:00 - 17:00 TIME DIALOGUE (12+)

LITERARY-MUSICAL EVENING.

Organizer - Union of Armenian Women

May 17 at 19.00 (6+) CREATIVE MEETING With Nina Gabrielyan. The program includes the author’s reading of poems and translations from Armenian poetry of the 13th-20th centuries of Nina Gabrielyan - a poet, prose writer and artist. An artistic mini-film based on the prose of N. Gabrielyan “Venus Laughs” (director Eureka Allaverdonts) will also be shown. Price: For entrance tickets to the exhibition

May 19, 19.00 CARTOONS BY ROBERT SAAKAYANTS

The 6 most famous cartoons of R. Sahakyants made by him in the 1980s. (“… Three blue-blue lakes of crimson color…”, “Who will tell the tale?”, “Wow, talking fish!”, “In the blue sea, in the white foam…”, “Oh, you Shrovetide!”). Robert Sahakyants is one of the most famous and remarkable Armenian filmmakers and prolific animators in history, and so far no one has managed to collect all his works in a single archive or collection. After the film screening, a discussion is planned in the format of live communication, over the course of which you can share your impressions and thoughts. Price: 100 / 50r

May 20, 17 at 18.00 FINISAGE OF THE EXHIBITION

About the authors:

Edmond Petrosyan (Diken) (b. 1948, Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh) - studied at the extended school in Stepanakert, then he entered and graduated from the Novorossiysk Institute of Public Utilities. He worked as a specialist in the Construction Materials Combine of the NKAO (Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region). He also taught at a sports school in Stepanakert. He began to draw in the 80s. Works on cardboard, creating small-format paintings. He is laconic and likes to repeat that there is no need to talk about anything if there is no need for it. The works are in the collections of the Museum of Organic Culture in Kolomna and the Museum of Naive Art in Moscow.

Nina Gabrielyan (b. 1953, Moscow) - artist, culturologist, poet, prose writer, member of the International Art Fund. She graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages ​​named after M. Torez (Faculty of French). The meeting with the outstanding artist and teacher Boris Otarov (1916-1991) turned out to be fatal for her. From 1976 to 1991 she attended his workshop. Mainly works in the oil and pastel technique. The artist’s works are in the Tapan Museum of the Russian and New Nakhichevan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Museum of Naive Art (Moscow), the Volokolamsk Kremlin Museum and Exhibition Complex, as well as in private collections in Russia, Armenia, Great Britain, Italy and Canada.

Organizers

Gallery "Nagornaya" - one of the famous contemporary exhibition venues in the capital, the first state gallery in Moscow, began its work in 1978 (www.galereya-nagornaya.ru)

The Moscow Exhibition Halls Association is a state organization uniting various exhibition venues in a single modern urban space for the development of visual culture and educational activities among residents and guests of the capital (www.vzmoscow.ru)