REPRESENTATIVE OF ARMENIA OPENS INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION IN MOSCOW

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 20 2006

MOSCOW, MARCH 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Karen Aghamian,
Chairman of the Painters’ Union of Armenia, represented Armenia at
the International Art Exhibition “Contemporaries-2006” of Moscow
Central House of Painters.

According to the “Yerkramas” (Territory) newspaper of Armenians of
Russia, heads of leading Moscow creative unions and the only one of the
numerous guests, representative of Armenia, made solemn speeches at the
opening of the current “Salon”. As Aaghamian informed the “Yerkramas”
newspaper’s correspondent, this fact was in no way connected with the
Year of Armenia in Russia being held at present. At the exhibition
Karen Aghamian presented a series of works dedicated to subteleties
of interrelations between the sexes. Armenia was represented by Hakob
Hakobian at the annual exhibition of the Central House of Painters
in 2005. The annual exhibition of the Central House of Painters in
Moscow is a tribute to the traditions coming from Soviet times when
painters from the whole country arrived in the USSR capital. Currently
the festival has a title of the international one.