Never trust black eyes.
Be wary. Be warned.
Their darkness is a deep,
endless night.
Avetik Isahakyan, Never Love Black Eyes
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Всё - суета. Всё - проходящий сон.
И свет звезды - свет гибели мгновенной
И человек ничто.
Пылинка в мире он.
Но боль его громаднее Вселенной…
/ Аветик Исаакян
All is vanity. All is a passing dream.
And the light of a star is the light of instant death
And man is nothing
A speck of dust in the world
But his pain is bigger than the Universe…
/ Avetik Isaakyan
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Sculptor, RA Honored Artist Zaven Koshtoyan died at the age of 76. The artist was born in 1940 in the family of a jeweler who moved from Erzrum to Gyumri. The following works of the sculptor are known: "Alexander Pushkin", "Avetik Isahakyan", "Alek Manukyan", "Music", "Khachkar" and others. (many others) (at Gyumri) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeO7N1PFRS5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Avetik (Don Askarian, 1992)
An Armenian film director exiled in Germany. Film is burned, time is burned, dead sheep are hacked out from a frozen lake, an ancient king of Armenia comes over to talk, unaware the plight his people have gone through in years intervening. Still alive sheep are rescued from a cemetery crumbling at the arrival of tanks and a military hazmat team, and then breastfed. He projects silent footage of the incredible destruction of the 1988 earthquake as his colleague turns on non-incidental German news. A poet walks around human figures posing from statues and frescos. A sister sets fire to her brother’s living room reminding him of their father’s murder. The director takes a drive. People with frescos and tombstones saddled to their backs walk over rubble and waste.
A vital continuation of Armenian art and Armenian life. The director’s place in that. I have a feeling this would be more decipherable and impactful the better someone is across Armenian history and art. But what does full comprehension of the details matter when the urgency of loss, displacement and open wounds is thrown so cogently?
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Boyko Dossev, Avetik Karapetyan and Yury Yanowsky in Cinderella (Boston Ballet, 2014)
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— Avetik Isahakyan, Where Does the Stone Lie?
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Portrait of Avetik Isahakyan, 1940, Martiros Sarian
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