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ISTANBUL HOSTS HRAIR SARKISSIAN'S EXHIBIT
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 17, 2011 - 13:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, is hosting a new exhibition
featuring the works of Hrair Sarkissian.
In Sarkissian's works, landscape and the urban environment become
stages for the expression of moments in history. Employing traditional
documentary techniques, his photographs express the hidden paradox
existing between the beauty and constancy of the surroundings and
the potential realities they conceal, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
The exhibition will last until the end of December.
A heir of Armenian Genocide survivors, Sarkissian spent two months
in Istanbul in 2010 documenting the history sections of various
semi-private and public libraries and archives in the city, from the
Archaeological Museum and Topkapı Palace Libraries to the Ataturk
Library in Taksim, the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Ministry General
Directorate of State, and the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research
Centre.
Sarkissian studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in
Amsterdam.
Current exhibitions include the third Thessaloniki Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Greece, (2011) and Facing Mirrors, Thessaloniki
Museum of Photography, Greece (2011).
His recent exhibitions also include Out of Place at TATE Modern,
London, and Darat Al Funun.
The Salt Beyoğlu exhibition is organized with the support of the
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki.
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 17, 2011 - 13:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, is hosting a new exhibition
featuring the works of Hrair Sarkissian.
In Sarkissian's works, landscape and the urban environment become
stages for the expression of moments in history. Employing traditional
documentary techniques, his photographs express the hidden paradox
existing between the beauty and constancy of the surroundings and
the potential realities they conceal, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
The exhibition will last until the end of December.
A heir of Armenian Genocide survivors, Sarkissian spent two months
in Istanbul in 2010 documenting the history sections of various
semi-private and public libraries and archives in the city, from the
Archaeological Museum and Topkapı Palace Libraries to the Ataturk
Library in Taksim, the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Ministry General
Directorate of State, and the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research
Centre.
Sarkissian studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in
Amsterdam.
Current exhibitions include the third Thessaloniki Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Greece, (2011) and Facing Mirrors, Thessaloniki
Museum of Photography, Greece (2011).
His recent exhibitions also include Out of Place at TATE Modern,
London, and Darat Al Funun.
The Salt Beyoğlu exhibition is organized with the support of the
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki.