Chant Avedissian
Born in Cairo on 24 November to Armenian parents fleeing the Turkish invasions of their homeland, Chant Avedissian is a transnational artist. An Armenian in Egypt and an Egyptian in Armenia, he belongs to both. In the early nineteenth century, an important wave of Armenian Christians migrated to Egypt. Many were hired in government positions, while others established their private businesses. By the middle of the century, Egypt became one of the vital centers of Armenian political and cultural life. For example, in , the Armenian Nubar Nubarian Pasha () became the first Prime Minister in modern Egypt.
Growing up in Cairo, Chant Avedissian was schooled and later art trained in Cairo’s Armenian community. Avedissian studied at and graduated from the Kalousdian School in Formerly named Khorenian, Kalousdian Armenian School was established in and is one of Cairo&#;s oldest Armenian educational institutions. After graduation in the autumn of , Chant Avedissian joined the studio of the prominent Armenian-born Egyptian fauvist figure, landscape, and still-life painter Ashod Zorian (). Living a tumultuous life, Ashod Zorian was a painter, an art teacher in the Kalou
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Chant Avedissian was born in in Cairo, the son of Armenian refugees. After studying fine art at the School of Art and Design in Montreal and applied arts at the National Higher School of Decorative Arts in Paris during the s, Avedissian returned to Egypt. His work fused the techniques, concepts and cosmopolitan experiences acquired abroad with the heritage of his Armenian-Egyptian background to produce striking commentaries on the world around him. His artistry ranges from photography to costume and textile design. Avedissian’s interests in folk art, sufi poetry, Zen principles and aestheticism are evident in his creations. The source patterns are eclectic, ranging from Pharonic patterns, Bedouin carpets, Central Asian bricks or Syrian mother of pearl inlaid boxes to the marble decoration of Mamluk mosques.
Avedissian celebrated popular culture and politics in Egypt. His work features stars from the heyday of Egyptian music and cinema, as well as political figures from between the early days of King Farouk’s rule and President Gamal Abd El Nasser’s death are portrayed. However, Avedissian also had a strong interest in traditional arts and local materials.
Chant Avedissian
Egyptian-Armenian artist Chant Avedissian – who refined his techniques in Western art schools and whose inspiration is fuelled by the pantheon of Egypt’s modern Golden Age – deftly explores the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art; politics and pop; the ephemeral and the enduring; and Egypt and the rest of the world.
Avedissian’s subject is images themselves – mostly appropriated from the covers of Egyptian magazines from the era between King Farouk’s early days and President Nasser’s death, when Egypt was pursuing the ideal of modernity. The iconic figures in Avedissian’s canvases include legendary singers Om Kulthoum and Asmahan; screen sirens Shadia and Hind Rostom; heart-throbs Farid al-Atrash and Abdel Halim Hafez; and once-adored statesmen like Gamal Abdel Nasser. His unerring synthesis of the themes and iconography of Egypt and the Arab world in the s and s also takes in mothers, sportsmen and women, soldiers, films, hieroglyphics, rural life and advertising.
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