Lebanese art gallery hosts Mireille Goguikian’s exhibitMay 25, 2011 - 11:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - 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.” Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | About 32,000 rally in Yerevan to deman Pashinyan’s resignation About 31,700 people attended an opposition rally on Thursday, May 9 in Yerevan demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Armenian, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister to meet in Almaty Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov will meet in Almaty. Viva-MTS: Tech solutions to modernize infrastructure of border village The border village has been the focus of Viva-MTS and the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Values since 2015. Ucom's fixed network launched in Artashat To mark this occasion, the company has introduced a special offer exclusively for Artashat residents. |