NAREGATSI ART INSTITUTE TO HOST A MEETING WITH SCULPTOR ARTO TCHAKMAKTCHIAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.10.2009 19:35 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 16, Naregatsi Art Institute will host
a meeting with a sculptor, painter and member of the Royal Canadian
Academy Arto Tchakmaktchian.

"A work of art constitutes a constant effort to project beyond
time: to rejoin the infinite with the help of finite means. The
real value of a work of art is in its internal intelligibility that
does not necessarily need to be explicit in its affirmations. Man’s
condemnation to temporality makes him strive to transcend it by virtue
of his creative impulses," the artist explains.

Arto Tchakmaktchian was born in 1933 in Egypt. He started clay
modeling at 12. In 1948, he entered Panos Terlemezian Art School to
study sculpture and paintings.

In 1969, he was awarded with Armenian Youth Union golden medal for his
"Mother" and "Arno Babajanyan" sculptures.

The artist’s works were exhibited in Sofia, Moscow, St. Petersburg,
Oxford, Montreal, Paris and Bochum.