Krikor Momdjian (1947-)

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Krikor Momdjian (1947-)

 

Works:  Broken Dreams (When My Father Was Young); Golgotha. I Miss Them All; Komitas; Triptych; Triptych (Back to the Future); Victims of Genocide

 

Country:  The Netherlands/Lebanon

 

Biography:  Born in 1947 in Beirut, Lebanon, Momdjian was a student at the Armenian Seminary of Saint James, Jerusalem, from 1961 to 1964. From 1967 to 1972, he studied at the Fine Arts Institute of the University of Beirut, receiving a First Prize diploma. In 1973, Mamdjian attended the International University of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy, followed by the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts appliqus, and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts deco et des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He has been living in Holland since 1979.

 

Further Reading:

 

Kleisen, Jacqueline, Beyond Borders. Krikor Momdjian's Icons of Passion, Woubrugge: Momdjian Foundation, 1996.

 

Hotte, Doris Wintgens, Krikor Momdjian, Het Perkament, Leiden, 1992-93.

 

Kleisen, Jacqueline, "Paintings by Krikor Momdjian", Cicero, December, 1986.

 

Hotte, Doris Wintgens, Catalogue, Amsterdam: Gooijer Fione Art, 1984-85.

 

Smit, Jennifer, Catalogue, Leiden, 1983.

 

Santine, Pier Carlo, Cinquemattoni, no. 28, April, 1973.

 

http://www.galeries.nl/fotosgr/0001699momdjian_k.jpg

 

The Poet I

 

 

http://www.legacy-project.org/arts/pics/m/momdjiangolgotha01_lg.jpg

 

Golgotha. I Miss Them All

 

 

http://www.legacy-project.org/arts/pics/m/momdjiankomitas01_md.jpg

 

Komitas

 

 

From The Legacy Project:

 

Predominant in Momdjians paintings from various periods are the concepts of loss and absence. When dealing with the theme of genocide he is at times specific, with photo-reality integrated into painting and other times purely symbolic, leaving meaning up to personal connections elicited within the viewer. At times, this means that personal knowledge of Armenian history is necessary to perceive the full import of his pieces, but all stand on their own regardless of ones particular knowledge base. Working in a variety of media from Japanese paper to ancient photographs to stone and glass, he addresses the themes of the loss of family members, exile from ones fatherland, the possibility of a peaceful future, and the loss of ones dreams. -- Dickran Kouymjian

 

 

http://www.legacy-project.org/artists/display.html?ID=110

 

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