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Armenian Artist's `Simulacrum' Project on a Theme of Vermeer's Masterpiece
YEREVAN, MARCH 12, ARMENPRESS: Narek Avetisyan's "Simulacrum' project,
featuring 33 variations on the theme of Johannes Vermeer's `Girl with
a Pearl Earring' painting, will kick off March 15 at the Armenian
Center for Contemporary Experimental Art.
Narek Avetisyan, artist, project author, said today at a meeting with
journalists that he will present to the public a whole new project,
which features 33 variations on the theme of `Girl with a Pearl
Earring', animation and computer effects and music, written specially
for the project
"Actually I realize that this is an innovation and perhaps it will not
be accepted and perceived by the public easily," he says, noting that
each version has been created with famous styles of the world and
Armenian painting.
According to Lilit Sargsyan, art critic, `Simulacrum' is a complete,
multipartite project, consisting of canvasses, video-animation and
music. She says the canvases are accompanied with an animated video,
which shows how images transform into one another. `Narek Avetisyan's
works are based on Platonism. The art, according to that theory, is
just a great simulacrum,' she said.
`In the `33 variations' Narek Avetisyan replaced the post-modernistic
irony with an evident admiration for a classical masterpiece, with the
copy-paste-edit logic he creates a copy of a copy - double
simulacrum,' the art critic said.
According to Sona Harutyunyan, head of the RA culture ministry's
contemporary arts department, the project was first planned to be
presented in other countries, and then in Armenia, however because of
some obstacles it became impossible.
The public will have the opportunity to visit the art project until March 30.
From: A. Papazian
YEREVAN, MARCH 12, ARMENPRESS: Narek Avetisyan's "Simulacrum' project,
featuring 33 variations on the theme of Johannes Vermeer's `Girl with
a Pearl Earring' painting, will kick off March 15 at the Armenian
Center for Contemporary Experimental Art.
Narek Avetisyan, artist, project author, said today at a meeting with
journalists that he will present to the public a whole new project,
which features 33 variations on the theme of `Girl with a Pearl
Earring', animation and computer effects and music, written specially
for the project
"Actually I realize that this is an innovation and perhaps it will not
be accepted and perceived by the public easily," he says, noting that
each version has been created with famous styles of the world and
Armenian painting.
According to Lilit Sargsyan, art critic, `Simulacrum' is a complete,
multipartite project, consisting of canvasses, video-animation and
music. She says the canvases are accompanied with an animated video,
which shows how images transform into one another. `Narek Avetisyan's
works are based on Platonism. The art, according to that theory, is
just a great simulacrum,' she said.
`In the `33 variations' Narek Avetisyan replaced the post-modernistic
irony with an evident admiration for a classical masterpiece, with the
copy-paste-edit logic he creates a copy of a copy - double
simulacrum,' the art critic said.
According to Sona Harutyunyan, head of the RA culture ministry's
contemporary arts department, the project was first planned to be
presented in other countries, and then in Armenia, however because of
some obstacles it became impossible.
The public will have the opportunity to visit the art project until March 30.
From: A. Papazian