ARARAT STORIES
the best from Armenian videoart
8-28 February 2011
Only on VisualcontainerTV
with the support from :
the Open Society Institute / Soros Foundation in New York
the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam
VisualcontainerTV is glad to host a selection from ACCEA Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art of Yerevan, Armenia—the project is in collaboration with: Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor and with the support from : the Open Society Institute / Soros Foundation in New York the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam.
VisualcontainerTV is happy to welcome twelve Armenian artists to present a 15-video selection that focuses on the art and social contemporarity in the country.
From Sonia Balassanian, the first videoartist in Armenia, to the young but already internationally acclaimed Tigran Khachatrian, the exhibition shows the best of the videoart being produced in Armenia, through an attentive selection of the most famous protagonists as well as of the artworks that best represent a country under costruction and a nation with a great history.
Curator: Carolina Lio
SELECTED VIDEOWORKS:
SONA ABGARIAN
Dance of death, 2003, 06:44.
VAHRAM AKIMIAN
Let’s Dance, 2007, 01:10.
Aura, 2007, 03:56.
ANOUSH ARAKELIAN
Ominia Vanitas, 2010, 01:28.
SONIA BALASSANIAN
Brooding, 2002, 04:12.
Untitled, 1999, 04:40.
GAGIK GHAZAREH
The Blind, 2007, 01:12.
ARMEN HACOBIAN
One minute older, 2009, 01:14.
DIANA HAKOBYAN
I don’t believe in your dreams, 2002, 03:16.
DAVID KAREYAN
Digestible reality, 2002, 02:20.
TIGRAN KHACHATRYAN
Nachalo, 2007, 12:08.
MKRTICH TONOYAN
Earth – Mars Transformation, 2006, 07:07.
HAMLET VARDANIAN
Love and life, 2008, 3:28.
GAYANE YEGHIAZARIAN
Faint, 2010, 03:58.
Running, 2009, 01:14.