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PARAJANOV EXHIBITION IN MONCTON AS PART OF THE FOURTH ANNUAL ARMENIAN FESTIVAL
ARMRADIO.AM
05.11.2011 14:10
As a part of the fourth annual Armenian Festival in the Moncton
(the Hub City), Galerie d'art Louise et Reuben-Cohen is exhibiting
Parajanov: Imagined Reality. On loan from the Parajanov Museum in
Yerevan, the exhibit features more than 40 of Parajanov's collages and
his classic film The Colour of Pomegranates on loop in the gallery,
the Telegraph-Journal informs.
During his lifetime, the celebrated Armenian film director spent
years in Soviet prison and labour camps for his art. Both in cinema
and visual art, Parajanov defied limitation. More than 20 years after
his death, his legacy even continues to connect more than 8,000 km
away in Moncton.
This weekend, the gallery is also screening four of Parajanov's
films with English subtitles. During Festival international du cinema
francophone en Acadie (Nov. 17-26) the gallery will screen the movies
again with French subtitles.
"The Parajanov Museum is the most eccentric museum in the world,"
festival president and artistic director Sylvia Kasparian says. "He's
unique in his genre. That's why I chose to present him, because I
wanted this festival to show marginal and different artists," she said.
A child of the Diaspora, Kasparian founded the festival to mark the
90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in 2005.
"Most of it is making people know roots of humanity, because Armenia
has 3,000 years of humanity," she says. "This is the ancient world. I
think people like to see what humanity is. It's colourful. It's
different."
ARMRADIO.AM
05.11.2011 14:10
As a part of the fourth annual Armenian Festival in the Moncton
(the Hub City), Galerie d'art Louise et Reuben-Cohen is exhibiting
Parajanov: Imagined Reality. On loan from the Parajanov Museum in
Yerevan, the exhibit features more than 40 of Parajanov's collages and
his classic film The Colour of Pomegranates on loop in the gallery,
the Telegraph-Journal informs.
During his lifetime, the celebrated Armenian film director spent
years in Soviet prison and labour camps for his art. Both in cinema
and visual art, Parajanov defied limitation. More than 20 years after
his death, his legacy even continues to connect more than 8,000 km
away in Moncton.
This weekend, the gallery is also screening four of Parajanov's
films with English subtitles. During Festival international du cinema
francophone en Acadie (Nov. 17-26) the gallery will screen the movies
again with French subtitles.
"The Parajanov Museum is the most eccentric museum in the world,"
festival president and artistic director Sylvia Kasparian says. "He's
unique in his genre. That's why I chose to present him, because I
wanted this festival to show marginal and different artists," she said.
A child of the Diaspora, Kasparian founded the festival to mark the
90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in 2005.
"Most of it is making people know roots of humanity, because Armenia
has 3,000 years of humanity," she says. "This is the ancient world. I
think people like to see what humanity is. It's colourful. It's
different."