‘Color, shape, architecture’: an exhibition dedicated to the 90-th anniversary of Van Khachatur

With the assistance of the RA Ministry of Culture, on 22 August, 2016 at 16:00 the Union of Artists of Armenia will host an exhibition “Color, shape, architecture” dedicated to the 90^th anniversary of the artist and sculptor Van Khachatur, the press service of Armenia’s Ministry of Culture reports.

The exhibition will run until August 30, 2016. Van Khachatur (Vanik Khachatryan) is the founder of modern Armenian monumental painting. He was born in 1926 in Baku. He studied at the Yerevan Theatre and Art Institute and later continued his education at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1984 he became a member of the Artist’s Union of Armenia. In 1991 Van Khachatur presented Armenia his creative heritage of more than two thousand works (paintings, sculptures, architectural projects, spatial paintings and drawings). He is the author of the mosaics and frescoes of the Matenadaran. In 2011 painter, sculptor, architect, poet Vanik Khachatryan was awarded the medal “For Services to the Fatherland” 2^nd degree.

Throughout his artistic career Van Khachatur put before him many artistic challenges, including the use of a new approach to solving the problem of synthesis of the Armenian modern art and architecture.