Press Release
Date of issue: 19 May 2022
Armenia Art Fair 2022 Program Highlights.
Armenia Art Fair is delighted to return in 2022 with a wonderful show filled with exciting art from galleries in Armenia and the region as well as from China, the Middle East and North Africa.
We also have a packed program of events featuring international specialists discussing hot issues in the contemporary art market. Come and join the discussion – it’s free!
Education and Culture Program
The program is curated and chaired by Dr Iain Robertson, a UK-based art expert and writer. Key topics this year include price differences between virtual and actual artworks, the visual arts most likely to attract future support and the essential ingredients for cultural sustainability. We’ll also look at whether it’s better to be an art dealer or an art broker.
Art and Technology
We explore contemporary practice at the crossroads of analog and digital, visual images, matter, sound and technology. In 2022, we will focus on NFT and the digitalization of art in both public and private spheres and its effect on developments in art. Our panellists are the writer and curator Radesh Sidhu, art dealer Andreas Sandri and Artfacts and Limna co-founder Marek Claassen.
Meet the Gallerists
A workshop with founders and directors of renowned international galleries including Sundaram Tagore, an art historian, gallerist, and award-winning filmmaker; Chang Tsong-Zung, curator, art director of Hanart T Z Gallery and initiator of the “West Heavens” series ofIndian-Chinese exchanges; and Janet Redy, specialistin contemporary art, founder of Janet Redy Fine Art gallery in London and Dubai.
Armenia Art Fair is proud to present in partnership with Hong Kong’s Hanart TZ Gallery a highly anticipated show of Chinese Contemporary Artists.
Hanart TZ Gallery is a pioneering gallery in the field of Chinese contemporary art. Johnson Chang, an active curator since the 1980s and co-founder of the Asia Art Archive, is regarded as an influential figure on the Hong Kong art scene.
This presentation includes two works of video art: Rite of Archery by Jeffrey Shaw based on one of the seventeen chapters of the ancient text Yi Li (Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial), a comprehensive record of the rituals that prevailed during the Zhou Dynasty, and which was compiled by followers of Confucius in the 5th century BCE, and Retainers of Anarchy by Howiw Tsui a Chinese ‘gothic fantasy’ based on modern martial arts novels and a historical quarter in Hong Kong.
Also presented is Scrolls by BuZi who through his calligraphic art constructs a kind of personal totem that is distinctively contemporary.
AAF also is proud to present two partner exhibitions:
– “Assymetrical Balance” by Raffi Yedalian, a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. This solo exhibition is dedicated to the challenges of life and the psychological deconstruction of the human.
– “There is no place like home” by artist Katharina Maderthaner and Curator Eva Khachatryan, presented at the Dalan Art Gallery.
By juxtaposing seemingly incompatible objects defining “inside” and “outside”, Katharina gives them new life and meaning, while at the same time characterizing the inventive existence of the Armenian reality, covered with elements of kitsch aesthetics.
The “Armenia Art Fair”Art Foundation with generous support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation presents a new book at AAF 2022 titled “A Pathway Through Armenian Modern and Contemporary Art”.
Written by Dr Iain Robertson with contribution from Nazareth Karoyan, the book is an introduction to Modern and Contemporary Armenian art, highlighting this little-
recognized but important period of cultural development in the country and its diaspora.
General Sponsor of Armenia Art Fair 2022 is Ameriabank
Partners of Armenia Art Fair 2022:
Ambassade de France en Arménie
Goethe-Zentrum Eriwan
AGBU Armenia
ARTSY – online Marketplace Partner
Media are invited to apply for press accreditation for the third edition of Armenia Art Fair by Wednesday, May 25th on armeniaartfair.com/press/
Media inquiries:
Nata Sokolowska
nata.sokolowska@armeniaartfair.com
For more information visit www.armeniaartfair.com
NOTES FOR EDITORS
About Armenia Art Fair
Armenia Art Fair is the premier event for discovering contemporary art and artists from Armenia, the Caucasus and Beyond including MENA and Asia.
Armenia Art Fair is a space not just for collectors but also art lovers who can enjoy high – quality art at reasonable prices.
AAF is held annually in Armenia’s capital Yerevan, at the “Yerevan Expo” exhibition complex. It accepts applications from both established mainstream galleries and newly established galleries that have been operating for less than a year, as well as independent presentations of artists by curators.
About Armenia Art Fair Art Foundation
The mission of the Armenia Art Fair Art Foundation is “Supporting Artists, Building A Market and Developing Art Education.
The AAF Art Foundation was established to address the issue of visibility for Armenian and regional contemporary art, promote emerging artists and new art regions, to seek to educate and inform an international audience about the cultural traditions and contemporary culture of the Region.
AAF Foundation programs and activities has been supported by sponsorships, private donations, and grants from international organizations including Goethe Zentrum office, Goethe-Institut, the International Relief Fund of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Calouste Gulbekian Foundation.