Press release AT THE 56TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA - 2015 THE NATIONAL PAVILION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA ON THE ISLAND OF SAN LAZZARO DEGLI ARMENI, VENICE ARMENITY/HAYOUTIOUN 16 Contemporary artists from the Armenian Diaspora The artists: Haig Aivazian, Lebanon/France; Nigol Bezjian, Syria/USA; Anna Boghiguian Egypt/Canada; Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Turkey; Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Argentina/ Germany; Rene Gabri & Ayreen Anastas, Iran/Palestine/USA; Mekhitar Garabedian, Belgium; Aikaterini Gegisian, Greece; Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy; Aram Jibilian, USA; Nina Katchadourian, USA/Finland; Melik Ohanian, France; Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Armenia/Italy; Rosana Palazyan, Brasil; Sarkis, Turkey/France; Hrair Sarkissian, Syria/UK. Curated by Adelina Cüberyan v. Fürstenberg Opening May 5, from 6 to 8 pm Special vaporetto ACTV from Giardini: Depature at 6 pm from the Giardini to the Island of San Lazzaro (7 min) Vaporetto ACTV nr. 20 from San Zaccaria/San Marco: Departure at 17.50, 18.30 and 19.10 from San Zaccaria to San Lazzaro (15 min). Return vaporetto every hour. Regardless of their place of birth, the selected artists from the Armenian Diaspora carry out the memory and identity of their origins. A “transnational” assembly under the banner of a broken up identity, rebuilt with talent by these artists, grand children of those survivors of the Armenian Genocide, the first of the 20th century. Their ingrained concern for identity, memory, justice and reconciliation, skill fully overlaps the notions of territory, border and geography. Whether they were born in Beirut, Lyon, Los Angeles, or Cairo, wherever they live, these global citizens constantly question and reinvent their Armenity. The exhibition will be held on the Island of San Lazzaro located between San Marco and Lido just in front of Giardini of the Biennale, where the Armenian monk Mekhitar in 1717 settled headquarters of the Mekhitarian Order. The emblematic Monastery of San Lazzaro with its gardens, the former printing shop, the cloister, the museum and the precious library of 140’000 volumes of manuscripts, will be during the 56. Biennale of Venice the framework of the most prominent and international contemporary Armenian artists. The choice of this precious fragment of Armenian culture, where Lord Byron had studied the Armenian language, is aimed to underline the nature of the process of the Armenian diaspora and to help revealing how it is linked to the notion of Armenity. The catalogue published by Skira, will contain colour reproductions and texts in English and Armenian (approx.240 pages). Forwards, introduction and curatorial texts, followed by 4 pages to each of the 16 artists: 1 pages of text by each artists, or essays by international art critics and writers, and 3 pages with images, drawings and collages of the works. The third part of the catalogue will contain essays by the art historian and independent curator Neery Melikonian based in NY and by Stephanie Bailey art writer and editor of Ibraaz, based in London. The catalogue will end with the Armenian translations of the texts. Alongside with the catalogue, will be published a book od poetry composed by a selection of poems by 12 Armenian poets born after the Armenian Genocide and the Russian Revolution and translated in French by the prominent Swiss-Armenian poet Vahé Godel. It will include an essay by the author and a selection of Armenian translations of the poems. Press Office: Lucia Crespi Communicazione, Milan [email protected] /[email protected]
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:21:22 +0000
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