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SCULPTOR VIGEN AVETIS: "IN LIBERTY SQUARE I SAW THAT HAYK HAS AGAIN DEFEATED BEL"
Anush Kocharyan
http://hetq.am/eng/interviews/24799/sculptor-vigen-avetis-in-liberty-square-i-saw-that-hayk-has-again-defeated-bel.html
18:31, March 25, 2013
Vigen Avetis, the famous sculptor, left Armenia twenty years ago. He
now lives and works in Italy.
Now he is back in Armenia for a brief visit.
Last November I spoke with Vigen and he expressed the following
concerns about life in Armenia.
"My thoughts, spirit and heart are in the homeland. My friends and
relatives live badly. There is great lawlessness and exploitation.
Salaries are so low that people can't pay their utility bills or
wedding and funeral expenses."
"The government has been taken over by a bunch of ignorant and criminal
types. Even some MPs are criminals with nicknames. The presidential
candidates are seen in terms of bad or worse. People are thus forced
to leave their family homes and emigrate. Young Armenian men become
laborers in some far off comer of Russia. Armenian women are marrying
non-Armenians. The situation is terrible...I also blame myself for
leaving the homeland. If there is no Armenia, what good are the songs
of Charles Aznavour?"
Was your current visit to Armenia planned? It's not connected to any
cultural or other event. Why did you decide to come now, during this
time post-election period of intensified politics?
I believe that we do not always decide where to be at any given point.
I you remember the incident when the trolleybus plunged into Lake
Yerevan, the swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan happened to be walking by.
Luckily he pulled many to safety.
Man is a source of energy. The heavenly forces follow happenings
on earth through our eyes and participate, using all our powers of
contact - thought, speech and action.
The reason for my being here, if I explain it in a conceptual way, were
my works here in Armenia, but the motivating force was a mystical one.
It appears to us that our movements and steps are very personal. We
don't take into account the creative force of gravity, the push
and pull, the destructive clash and the patience of novelty. It
is necessary to understand that we are participants in the daily
perfection of heaven and earth.
In any case, your visit has coincided with renewed activism in the
civic and political arenas her in Armenia. You went to Liberty Square.
How would you evaluate political developments in Armenia?
They are quite wonderful developments. They are moments that adorn
and enrich one's life. Without miracles, living becomes quite mundane.
The intensification of energy in Armenia was so great that it not
only pulled me and Vardan Petrosyan but, I am convinced, it also
attracted the attention of all our saints.
All the healthy forces, both earthly and heavenly, are now in Armenia.
This is not merely a political development. Man has been brought back
to life and it is impossible to stop him. Humanity, with an invitation
from Armenians, entered a new century. Hayk yet again defeated Bel.
This is what I saw in Liberty Square, which should now be renamed
the square of human liberty.
You mean this is first a civic movement leading to changes in the
political sphere?
This is something bigger than the concept of victory. This is a
display of the adulation of man and the weakness of evil.
In your view, where will this process lead?
The importance of the appearance alone is so grand that predictions
are worthless. It would be like asking an expectant mother what the
baby's profession will be.
Raffi Hovannisian declared his final offer of proposals to Sargsyan,
a sort of power-sharing compromise if you will. What are your thoughts?
Raffi Hovannisian is the people's choice and the light of God now
directs him. He is now bearing a very heavy cross of responsibility.
There is emptiness on the other side, a sewer clogged up with money.
I'll leave the technical aspects of resolving the issue to the experts.
You will soon be returning to Italy. Do you plan to visit Armenia in
the near future?
I am living and God only knows how much time I have left. I strive
to be sincere with myself and with that grace that I have been
bestowed with,
What is important is not to waste but not to conserve at the same time.
My heart feels the call of Armenia and I am a friend of the heart
and I will not let it grow sad. The day will come and the good with it.
It is not the time to grow weak or fall prey to emotions. I continue
to be an obedient soldier.
Anush Kocharyan
http://hetq.am/eng/interviews/24799/sculptor-vigen-avetis-in-liberty-square-i-saw-that-hayk-has-again-defeated-bel.html
18:31, March 25, 2013
Vigen Avetis, the famous sculptor, left Armenia twenty years ago. He
now lives and works in Italy.
Now he is back in Armenia for a brief visit.
Last November I spoke with Vigen and he expressed the following
concerns about life in Armenia.
"My thoughts, spirit and heart are in the homeland. My friends and
relatives live badly. There is great lawlessness and exploitation.
Salaries are so low that people can't pay their utility bills or
wedding and funeral expenses."
"The government has been taken over by a bunch of ignorant and criminal
types. Even some MPs are criminals with nicknames. The presidential
candidates are seen in terms of bad or worse. People are thus forced
to leave their family homes and emigrate. Young Armenian men become
laborers in some far off comer of Russia. Armenian women are marrying
non-Armenians. The situation is terrible...I also blame myself for
leaving the homeland. If there is no Armenia, what good are the songs
of Charles Aznavour?"
Was your current visit to Armenia planned? It's not connected to any
cultural or other event. Why did you decide to come now, during this
time post-election period of intensified politics?
I believe that we do not always decide where to be at any given point.
I you remember the incident when the trolleybus plunged into Lake
Yerevan, the swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan happened to be walking by.
Luckily he pulled many to safety.
Man is a source of energy. The heavenly forces follow happenings
on earth through our eyes and participate, using all our powers of
contact - thought, speech and action.
The reason for my being here, if I explain it in a conceptual way, were
my works here in Armenia, but the motivating force was a mystical one.
It appears to us that our movements and steps are very personal. We
don't take into account the creative force of gravity, the push
and pull, the destructive clash and the patience of novelty. It
is necessary to understand that we are participants in the daily
perfection of heaven and earth.
In any case, your visit has coincided with renewed activism in the
civic and political arenas her in Armenia. You went to Liberty Square.
How would you evaluate political developments in Armenia?
They are quite wonderful developments. They are moments that adorn
and enrich one's life. Without miracles, living becomes quite mundane.
The intensification of energy in Armenia was so great that it not
only pulled me and Vardan Petrosyan but, I am convinced, it also
attracted the attention of all our saints.
All the healthy forces, both earthly and heavenly, are now in Armenia.
This is not merely a political development. Man has been brought back
to life and it is impossible to stop him. Humanity, with an invitation
from Armenians, entered a new century. Hayk yet again defeated Bel.
This is what I saw in Liberty Square, which should now be renamed
the square of human liberty.
You mean this is first a civic movement leading to changes in the
political sphere?
This is something bigger than the concept of victory. This is a
display of the adulation of man and the weakness of evil.
In your view, where will this process lead?
The importance of the appearance alone is so grand that predictions
are worthless. It would be like asking an expectant mother what the
baby's profession will be.
Raffi Hovannisian declared his final offer of proposals to Sargsyan,
a sort of power-sharing compromise if you will. What are your thoughts?
Raffi Hovannisian is the people's choice and the light of God now
directs him. He is now bearing a very heavy cross of responsibility.
There is emptiness on the other side, a sewer clogged up with money.
I'll leave the technical aspects of resolving the issue to the experts.
You will soon be returning to Italy. Do you plan to visit Armenia in
the near future?
I am living and God only knows how much time I have left. I strive
to be sincere with myself and with that grace that I have been
bestowed with,
What is important is not to waste but not to conserve at the same time.
My heart feels the call of Armenia and I am a friend of the heart
and I will not let it grow sad. The day will come and the good with it.
It is not the time to grow weak or fall prey to emotions. I continue
to be an obedient soldier.