Ararat Sarkissian ( hy, Արարատ Վանիկի Սարգսյան; born 1956 in
Gyumri
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
), is an
Armenia
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n post-modernist
conceptual
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Philosophy and Humanities
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artist. He currently lives in
Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...
.
He is a Member of the European Academy of Natural Sciences and International Association of Art.
He is the father of artist
Arshak Sarkissian
Arshak Sarkissian (; born December 26, 1981), is an Armenian painter and artist.
Biography
Arshak Sarkissian was born in Gyumri, Armenia, into the family of painter Ararat Sarkissian. After the 1988 Armenian earthquake, he moved to Yerevan.
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Ararat Sarkissian's works are at
National Gallery of Armenia,
Tretyakov Gallery,
Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Singapore Armenian Heritage Gallery,
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts is a major contemporary art museum located in Amman, Jordan. The Official inauguration of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts (JNGFA) was held under the patronage of the late King Hussein and Queen Noor ...
, Yerevan Printmaking Museum, and so on.
Ararat Sarkissian was the artist representing Armenia in the 2013
Venice Art Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, which had a purpose of bringing together all worldly knowledge and the greatest discoveries of the human race, under the title 'The Encyclopaedic Palace.' The Armenian pavilion (on the island of
San Lazzaro degli Armeni
San Lazzaro degli Armeni (, "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; called Saint Lazarus Island in English sources; hy, Սուրբ Ղազար, Surb Ghazar) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitar ...
) featured Ararat Sarkissian presenting a combination of the medieval Armenian tradition of reciting the
epic poem of
Daredevils of Sassoun and ancient tradition of animation through clay rollers.
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1956 births
Living people
People from Gyumri
Armenian painters
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