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Scarred and encrusted with ammonite-like shells and arcane symbols, these figures seem to be mysterious, fossilized remnants of an ancient animism, or echoes of archaic hybridism and genomic plasticity
by Ara Arayan, acrylic on canvas, photo by Vahan Bego
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Cuneiform script at Erebuni Fortress, Yerevan, 782 BC. Photo by Vahan Bego, August 2006
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Khor Virab Monastery With Mount Ararat in the background
Vanquished in the field of arms, Armenia seeks salvation in the scriptoria... These must have been enormous collections: in 1170 the Seljuks destroy a library in Syunik consisting of ten thousand volumes... At first they wrote on skins, then on paper. They once made a book that weighed thirty-two kilograms. Seven hundred calves went into it... Golden armies of small Armenian letters crawl over hundreds of pages... The fate of these books is the history of the Armenians.
Zbieracz Chrustu (The Brushwood Gatherer), pastel on card, 2005
Miłosna Kompzycja pt. Vulkan, by the artist Vahan Bego, demands some processing.
A few things that could be borne in mind:
• Love Composition Volcano, a fairly epic painting, weighs in at 140cm by 200cm. Though it is obviously best seen ‘in the flesh’, some of its power can be felt in the claustrophobic confines of JPEG.
• Quite exceptionally for this day and age, the painting was executed entirely in oil paint.
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 design by maciej sierpien & krzysztof bartkowski |
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