PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF ARTOUR OSHAKANTSI OPENS IN YEREVAN

YEREVAN, AUGUST 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Artour Oshakantsi, painter, the
founder of abstractional naturalism represented more than thirty
canvases at the personal exhibition opened on August 26 in the
Armenian Union of the cultural ties with abroad. Works, dedicated to
the Armenian Genocide, Armenian Cause, as well as to Nature and human
relations, occupied a special place in the exhibition. Artour
Oshakantsi was born in 1953 in the village of Oshakan, now in the
Aragatsotn marz of Armenia. In the Soviet times, the painter was one
of the first artists who, with the help of abstractionism, tried to
express his political agression. “I use abstract art as a means of
expressing my political views and protest”, says the painter, who has
been living in London since 1992. According to the painter Arayik
Smbatian, Oshakantsi’s works are very unique.

“Having lived for a long time in London, he did not lose his national
identity in art, moreover, he created a tendency that has its
influence on foreign painters as well”, says Mr. Smbatian. Oshakantsi’s
works have been exhibited in different European countries and in the
United States. At present, many of the painter’s works are kept in
private collections. Another personal exhibition of Oshakantsi will be
held in September, in the Queen’s Hall of Justice in London, where
more than 60 works, created during the last years, will be exhibited.