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Arthur Sarkissian (Armenian: Արթուր Սարգսյան) is an Armenian artist and painter. [1] Life. Sarkissian attended the School of Fine Arts there in 1977, followed by the Yerevan State Pedagogical University (Drawing) in 1989. [2] . He lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia. [3] Art.
Nov 29, 2022 · The Other Side of Silence is the first mid-career survey in the Netherlands by the Syrian-Armenian artist Hrair Sarkissian (born 1973, Damascus, Syria) - one of today's leading conceptual artists working with photography.
Sarkissian is not the first among contemporary artists to work with an architecturally precise replica of home. As art has become more global and artists’ lives more transiently transnational, home has become a frequent subject, a familiar motif through which one may address issues of cultural displacement, loss, memory and the past.
The Other Side of Silence is the first monograph of the artist Hrair Sarkissian – one of the leading figures working with photography globally today. This cerebral book of multi-disciplinary essays and images explores histories of disappearance, the architecture of violence, and the potential of the medium of photography itself.
‘Sarkissian Photo Centre’ (2010) consists of a series of images taken in Sarkissian’s father’s photography shop established in 1979 as the first photo colour laborotary in Damascus, Syria, as well as a series of portraits of the artist, and of his father.
Artist Biography. Hrair Sarkissian’s (b. 1973, lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands) photographic practice is characterised by an element of search, as well as the dichotomy of visible/invisible.
Nov 2, 2021 · The first mid-career survey of work by London-based Syrian-Armenian artist Hrair Sarkissian—one of the foremost conceptual photographers of our time—opened 30 October 2021 at Sharjah Art...
