MINAS AVETISIAN’S WALL-PAINTING TOROS ROSLIN’S BIRTH BEING RESTORED

Noyan Tapan

Se p 26, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. On the occasion of painter
Minas Avetisian’s 80th birth anniversary, a jubilee exhibition of
painter’s works will be opened at the National Gallery of Armenia
in October. Later, in the spring of 2009, an exhibition of Minas
Avetisian’s works will be also organized in Moscow and Florence.

Sona Haroutiunian, an Adviser to the RA Minister of Culture, said
this at the meeting held on September 25 at the Novosti Armenia
club. According to her, thanks to specialists, who have already
arrived from Italy on the occasion of the jubilee, one out of eleven
wall-paintings of the painter is being restored. It is Toros Roslin’s
Birth, which was at Gyumri Electrotechnical Factory. The other four
wall-paintings of Minas are also at the same factory. They also need
urgent restoration.

Painter’s son Arman Avetisian said that the state has allocated
5m drams for the restoration of wall-painting Toros Roslin’s
Birth. However, according to him, the other 10 wall-paintings also
need restoration. Three out of the other wall-paintings of M. Avetisian
are in Yerevan and the rest are in the Shirak region.

A catalogue of Minas’ works will be published and a film on the process
of wall-paintings’ restoration will be shot with the assistance of
Moscow Foundation of Armenian Culture.