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    CAFESJIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS TO OPEN IN YEREVAN

    http://www.asbarez.com/2009/09/30/cafesji an-center-for-the-arts-to-open-in-yerevan/
    Sep 30, 2009

    YEREVAN (A1 Plus)-The Cafesjian Center for the Arts announce Wednesday
    that it will be having a Grand Opening Celebration on Sunday, November
    7 to inaugurate the $35 million dollar museum and art center, perched
    atop Downtown Yerevan's famous Cascades.

    Taking over two years and $35 million to complete, the project
    has transformed the Cascade into one of the world's outstanding
    contemporary art centers.

    The Center will be official opened on November 8. The public is being
    invited for a free day of touring the center, where they can see the
    renovations that have taken place inside the Cascade and to enjoy an
    outstanding schedule of exhibitions, lecturers, book-signings concerts
    and events.

    A number of exhibitions will inaugurate the Cafesjian Center for the
    Arts, but the most prominent is undoubtedly Libenský Brychtova: For
    Armenia. The Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection is one of the largest
    collections of modern glass found in any museum, and its holdings
    of works by the Czech couple are among the finest in the world. This
    exhibition, specially designed and installed by Jaroslava Brychtova
    herself, is a mere fragment of the overall Gerard L. Cafesjian
    collection, which contains over one hundred pieces by the celebrated
    couple.

    The collaboration of Stanislav Libenský (1921-2002) and Jaroslava
    Brychtova spanned nearly five decades, and the couple is credited with
    elevating the status of glass to that of a fine art. They are two of
    the most influential artists to have worked in the medium during the
    20th century. Considered "national treasures" in their homeland of
    the Czech Republic, the couple has exhibited widely in galleries and
    museums throughout the world, and their work is in numerous public
    and private collections.

    Many of the works in For Armenia resemble Armenia's own traditional
    khachkar, infusing the work with spiritual meaning and forming a
    tangible link between the artists and the land they have grown to
    admire. The Libenský-Brychtova relationship with Armenia dates back
    to the 1980s, when the artists studied the culture and history of
    Armenia. The devastation of the 1988 earthquake in Armenia had a
    profound impact on the artists, resulting in the creation of the
    triptych Silhouettes of the Town (1989).

    "The Czech and Armenian nations have a lot of things in history that
    are quite similar," Brychtova stated in a recent visit to Yerevan. "I
    think the Armenian public will appreciate and understand what we are
    expressing in our art," she added.

    Brychtova will make a rare personal appearance in Yerevan for the
    opening of the Center and for the exhibition Libenský-Brychtova:
    For Armenia. The artist will also appear at a number of the Center's
    opening events on Sunday, November 8th, including the Center's ribbon
    cutting ceremony, the opening reception for For Armenia, and a book
    signing for the book Libenský-Brychtova.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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