ARMENIAN FUTURIST VAGRICH BAKHCHANYAN PASSED AWAY IN NYC
Tert
Nov 16 2009
Armenia
Celebrated Armenian painter and writer-conceptualist Vagrich
Bakhchanyan (72), who was considered "one of the last futurists of
our time," passed away on November 12, 2009, in New York City.
Bakhchanyan was born in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, but moved
to Moscow in the late 1960s, where he worked at the weekly paper
Literaturnaya Gazeta. Bakhchanyan moved to the United States in 1974,
where he worked and lived for the remainder of his life.
His collections can be viewed in NYC’s Museum of Modern Art, Moscow’s
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and Kiev’s Museum of National
Arts of Ukraine, among many other places.
Bakhchanyan considered himself 150% Armenian, since "even his
step-mother was Armenian."