Arto Chakmakchyan’s exhibition opened in UNESCO headquarters in Paris on January 28. Renowned singer Charles Aznavour, RA Ambassador to France Vigen Chitechyan, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture Francoise Riviere, cultural workers and representatives of the Armenian community of France attended the opening ceremony.

The exhibition was organized on the initiative of French Embassy in Armenia and RA delegation to UNESCO, under the auspices of Calouste Gulbenkian and AGBU Europe, RA MFA press office reported.

Arto Chakmakchyan was born in 1933 in Egypt. In 1948, he entered Phanos Terlemezyan Art College in Armenia, where he studied the art of sculpture and painting. Since 1961, he had worked as a researcher and traveled throughout Armenia, studying medieval sculptures of the Armenian churches, that later became the basis for his "Decorative art of medieval Armenia” work. In 1969, he was awarded the gold medal of the Youth Union of Armenia for the sculpture "Mother" and "Arno Babajanyan". These works were later gifted to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since 1991, Arto Chakmachyan has been a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Canada.