On October 16, Naregatsi Art Institute will host a meeting with a sculptor, painter and member of the Royal Canadian Academy Arto Tchakmaktchian.
“A work of art constitutes a constant effort to project beyond time: to rejoin the infinite with the help of finite means. The real value of a work of art is in its internal intelligibility that does not necessarily need to be explicit in its affirmations. Man’s condemnation to temporality makes him strive to transcend it by virtue of his creative impulses,” the artist explains.
Arto Tchakmaktchian was born in 1933 in Egypt. He started clay modeling at 12. In 1948, he entered Panos Terlemezian Art School to study sculpture and paintings.
In 1969, he was awarded with Armenian Youth Union golden medal for his “Mother” and “Arno Babajanyan” sculptures.
The artist’s works were exhibited in Sofia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Oxford, Montreal, Paris and Bochum.
