Art: Works by Armenian artist Vigen Vartanov to go on display in Tbilisi

Public Radio of Armenia
Oct 11 2017
14:45, 11 Oct 2017

The iArt Gallery in Tbilisi will open an exhibition of works by Georgian Armenian artist Vigen Vartanov on October 29, 2017. The works will be on display until November 6, 2017.

The exhibition titled “The Art of Found Objects” will feature nearly 60 assemblage and collage masterpieces.

Born in 1941, Vigen Vartanov started creating his unique artworks at the age of 25 and continued until a year before his death in 2016, while never displaying them to public. Whenever asked why he turned down any offer to exhibit his works, he would reply: “Later…”

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