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LEBANESE ART GALLERY HOSTS MIREILLE GOGUIKIAN'S EXHIBIT
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 25, 2011 - 11:20 AMT
Armenian-Lebanese artist Mireille Goguikian has drawn upon her
personal knowledge to express her view of life in her exhibition
"Myrrhe, Myrtille et Vanille," ("Myrrh, Blueberry and Vanilla"),
which is nowadays on display at Hamazkayin Art Gallery, Lebanon.
Forty-six mixed media works (oils on canvasses and collage) comprise
"Myrrhe, Myrtille et Vanille," each of them revealing Goguikian's
extraordinary use of color as a means of sublimating past experience
into art.
The artist explained how the title of her exhibition was taken
directly from her memories. When she was a child, she said, she and
her brother used to eat blueberries ("myrtille") from her garden,
The Daily Star reports.
"Vanilla" - or more precisely the yellow color, which is characteristic
of vanilla - reminds Goguikian of the Syrian Desert, where many
Armenians were forced to march till death. The color plunges her
into the collective memory of the 1915-1916 Armenian Genocide, the
Deir al-Zur camps, and the massacre she heard and read about when
she was younger.
"I am a colorist," Goguikian said. "Looking at my paintings is like
looking into a kaleidoscope."
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 25, 2011 - 11:20 AMT
Armenian-Lebanese artist Mireille Goguikian has drawn upon her
personal knowledge to express her view of life in her exhibition
"Myrrhe, Myrtille et Vanille," ("Myrrh, Blueberry and Vanilla"),
which is nowadays on display at Hamazkayin Art Gallery, Lebanon.
Forty-six mixed media works (oils on canvasses and collage) comprise
"Myrrhe, Myrtille et Vanille," each of them revealing Goguikian's
extraordinary use of color as a means of sublimating past experience
into art.
The artist explained how the title of her exhibition was taken
directly from her memories. When she was a child, she said, she and
her brother used to eat blueberries ("myrtille") from her garden,
The Daily Star reports.
"Vanilla" - or more precisely the yellow color, which is characteristic
of vanilla - reminds Goguikian of the Syrian Desert, where many
Armenians were forced to march till death. The color plunges her
into the collective memory of the 1915-1916 Armenian Genocide, the
Deir al-Zur camps, and the massacre she heard and read about when
she was younger.
"I am a colorist," Goguikian said. "Looking at my paintings is like
looking into a kaleidoscope."