In 2010, 5 Italian towns will host exhibitions of famous Armenian painter Minas Avetisyan’s works. The expositions will be arranged by Italian specialist Francesco Galo.
According to Sona Haroutyunyan, RA Minister of Culture Advisor, the exhibition was scheduled for 2009, but the global financial crisis frustrated the plans. The exhibition to be held in Moscow has been postponed till next year on the same grounds. According to Sona Haroutyunyan it will feature even more paintings and include works of great painter displayed in the Pushkin Galllery, the Oriental Culture Museum, as well as in private collections.
Metso Igityan, Chairman of the Armenian Culture Development Foundation, said that their institution will assist in the organization of Minas’ exhibition in Italy.
Minas Avetisyan was born on June 20, 1928 in the village of Djadjur (Akhouryan region). He received his education in the College after P. Terlemezian (1947-52) and the Institute of Theatre and Art (1952-54) in Yerevan, as well as the I. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1952-54), under the supervision of master B. V. Ioganson.
With their color contrast and expressiveness, Avetisyan’s paintings imparted a new spirit to the principles of fovizm. The paintings of the great artist reflected the traditions of medieval Caucasian art as well.
Avetisyan also had a success as a scene painter (set design of Ballet Gayane by A. Kachaturyan, Theatre of Opera and Ballet after A. Spendiaryan, etc) and painter-monumentalist (paintings of factory interiors in Leninakan-Gyumri, 1970-74). He died in a tragic car accident in Yerevan on April 24, 1975.
