Arto Chakmakchyan’s exhibition opens in UNESCO
30.01.2010 11:15 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Arto Chakmakchyan’s exhibition opened in UNESCO
headquarters in Paris on January 28. Renowned singer Charles Aznavour,
RA Ambassador to France Vigen Chitechyan, UNESCO Assistant
Director-General for Culture Francoise Riviere, cultural workers and
representatives of the Armenian community of France attended the
opening ceremony.

The exhibition was organized on the initiative of French Embassy in
Armenia and RA delegation to UNESCO, under the auspices of Calouste
Gulbenkian and AGBU Europe, RA MFA press office reported.

Arto Chakmakchyan was born in 1933 in Egypt. In 1948, he entered
Phanos Terlemezyan Art College in Armenia, where he studied the art of
sculpture and painting. Since 1961, he had worked as a researcher and
traveled throughout Armenia, studying medieval sculptures of the
Armenian churches, that later became the basis for his "Decorative art
of medieval Armenia’ work. In 1969, he was awarded the gold medal of
the Youth Union of Armenia for the sculpture "Mother" and "Arno
Babajanyan". These works were later gifted to the Tretyakov Gallery in
Moscow. Since 1991, Arto Chakmachyan has been a member of the Academy
of Fine Arts of Canada.