Press Release Varna Bulgaria September 2018

On September 12, 2018 in the Varna Art Gallery Museum "Boris Georgiev"

Was presented the exhibition "Faces from Different Places –

Annyrose Nahapetian".  AnnyRose is a Dutch Armenian artist born in Iran.

In her works as an artist, AnnyRose paintings, sculptural, ceramic and bronze techniques. She has made numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Europe and the United States. She presented Armenian KHachkar (stone crosses) and Iranian decorative symbols in large artistic forums such as the International Biennale of Contemporary Art Gyumri in Armenia in 2002 and 2004. For her critics say: "AnnyRose is an artist in constant creative evolution, but she remains true to herself and to her vision of the world, which is brought up by the mythical and universal care of mankind and its destiny." Her works are present in galleries and private collections in the Netherlands, Armenia, USA and others.

The costumers of the fine arts in Varna had the happy opportunity to immerse themselves in the rich palette of tones, in the fairytale world of the works of the artist AnnyRose Nahapetian. Showing in the gallery, we grab and impress the various female images reflected in a wide range of saturated colors, reminding of the traditions of the Armenian miniatures. In her paintings, she portrays the image of the woman-mother, the woman-wife. Using various artistic techniques and style techniques, it skillfully combines the positive and negative effects of different images. In spite of the difficulties she has brought to life, she has managed to preserve and recreate in her paintings the beauty, tenderness, virtue, the power of the woman's spirit. The exquisiteness of these faces touches us and makes us think that wherever women live, what religion they profess, what cultural traditions and values ​​they carry in their hearts, they have a similar destiny. These are also persons from different worlds, in the fine paintings of Annyrose Nahapetian.

The exhibition was opened by Stella Kostova, the curator of the exhibition, which, with very warm words, told about the life and creative way of the artist Annyrose Nahapetian. In her statement she said: "Faces of Different Places" is the latest exhibition of the Boris Georgiev Museum  & Art Gallery. The author of the paintings Annyrose Nahapetian is an Armenian born in Iran who lives and works in the Netherlands. Even as a very young woman, she finds art as an environment for professional expression, supported by her family, quite emancipated at that time in Iran. She was young that she went to study graphic design in Germany at Brücke Hochschule Munich. After in 1974- 1975 She received a scholarship from the Tehran Times Tehran's largest daily newspaper to study Italian in Turin, as well as deepen his graphic design knowledge at Ealing Technical College in England. This place is quite progressive for the time, especially in the 60-70s of the last century when Annyrose studied there. Ealing Technical College in England completes some of the most progressive artists of our time, including Freddie Mercury, as well as many other writers, journalists, artists. This school is ahead of its time, and in the middle of the last century it deals with topics such as the digital world and the penetration of telecommunications. All this seems to us today as a daily routine, but then things were still in the beginning.  After Ealing Technical College in England, she returned to Iran, where she was promoted to Marketing and Graphics Design at the daily newspaper she worked for. This is a very special time for her as a woman and a young pro, because when she starts her career, It happened Islamic Revolution in Iran. The years 1978-1985, as we know, are famously years of the Islamic Revolution, which alter the lives of people living there in a very brutal and very radical way. For a young woman in Iran, of non-Islamic origin, it is very difficult to develop a career. She and her relatives understand that the days of the Armenian community's survival in Iran are harsh, and after the newspaper shuts down under pressure in 1983, she seeks shelter elsewhere. She has a second home in the Netherlands, where her talent and professionalism, the gift and inspiring people around her, is highly appreciated. There, at that time, the arts are very dynamic, the environment is changing very fast - artists' associations emerge, abandoned buildings are taken over, the movement of expression through contemporary art finds a response to the everyday life of the people. AnnyRose quickly finds its environment in the Netherlands. Perhaps her good managerial skills and creativity are reflected in the fact that she makes one of the unique,  Art and cultural centers there, along with a 120-square-meter gallery in the heart of Amsterdam, which she maintains with her own and other artist’s work until 2012, when she decides that her career should take a more intimate character, turn to herself. In the Netherlands, she became famous for this gallery and for representing artists and art in a somewhat unusual way. In general, she always overtakes her time, uses various techniques she has learned in advertising to present the author in an avant-garde way. For this reason, the great art museums, and not only the artistic ones, have opened it by inviting her to design their exhibitions. A little later, he began to make his own concepts for exhibitions, two of which are still remembered – the “Woman Art and Society “the "Dream of Peace" at the Anne Frank House Museum, as well as the exhibition in KIT called "Armenians in the Netherlands – a Small Society with great History ". This exhibition makes a visual survey of the Armenian ties with the Netherlands, using visual historical facts, even found common among the Armenians and the Dutch, in the works of the Old Dutch masters. Throughout the nostalgia of the lost home, the emotions it experiences, the separation with the family are reflected in her work, which at first does for herself only - painting oil paintings. Once her career reaches the level she is recognized and sought for, she understands that origin is the driving force that makes her interesting in people's eyes. She decides to change her strategy and show everything she has painted in her studio. The first exhibition, organized in 1991, was sold out. There are many links with different gallery gallerist, with different collectors. Initially, she managed to combine both activities - one of the artistic galleys that he himself runs, and the other the artist, but later in 2013 she decides to fully devote herself to her own creativity. In talks with her, she said that the outcome and work with different organizations and artists are the effects by what she is doing right now, to name her travels, to show her art and meetings with the people of the Armenian community all over the world. This exhibition, which I am pleased to present at the Boris Georgiev museum  and  Art Gallery, is named after these trips. Quite accidentally and as a result of a bad advertising campaign for Bulgaria on the Internet, she as a person who has long worked in advertising knows that advertising, albeit bad, has its impact. And here's one year after, she's with us with this wonderful show. I would like to give Mrs. Racheva a speech to tell us a little more about the paintings themselves. "

Mrs. Plamena Dimitrova-Racheva - Director of the Varna City Art Gallery "Boris Georgiev" pointed out: "This initiative of AnnyRose is wonderful, because the message of this exhibition is to be seen all over the world. I will be back a bit in time - in fact, AnnyRose was born in Iran, and there is a chess named  Abbas. He is of the Sephadees dynasty, and the Armenians are settling in Isfahan. That's where the story starts to become part of. This Iranian chess evaluates not only Armenian trade skills, but also that they can engage in diplomatic ties with the rest of the Christian world - with the Caucasus and Russia, with Western Europe. For me this exhibition is extremely interesting because it shows a modern reading of the Iranian line and miniature, and especially calligraphic or so-called Arabic. At first glance, we can identify AnnyRose's paintings with a genre of pop-art, considering her training and biography. But what is most interesting in these works is that they in modern language translate everything that has begun as a language in the art of the Iranian miniature. We see the same principles that exist in the miniature, this calligraphic obfuscation of the images with a dark contour, we see the color spaces that are superimposed in a plan or decorative principle, which is characteristic of AnnyRose's  design work. But the most interesting is the personality. She as an individual who has a cosmopolitan existence but at the same time stands close to her roots, to the value system of Armenian art and Iranian art. And why I say Armenian art, because the first Armenian miniatures, they also have that principle of drawing the image in the foreground. The symbolism of miniatures and, most importantly, that in this stylization the image becomes accessible and meaningful. In addition to its proximity to the Iranian miniature, it transmits plots of human beings, and we see here beautifully illustrated. I am endlessly happy that an art I can say has its many clear sources in such a modern language reaches us because we see in this way that traditions of soul can be transferred through art. Thanks to AnnyRose  for the show. "

AnnyRose cordially thanks Mrs. Racheva and Mrs. Kostova, as well as all those who helped with the exhibition.

On behalf of the Armenian community in Varna Mrs. Silva Beyleryan thanked the artist and wished her new creative successes.

Adrine Mikaelian

Varna

Press.
Anny Rose Nahapetian, a. k.a. AnnyRose, Armenian Iranian artist, studied in Germany, England. Her work includes, painting, sculpture, ceramic and Bronze techniques. She has exhibited individually and collectively in Europe And United Stats of America. She has represented Armenian Khachkars and Iranian ornamental symbols in art events like the International Biennial of Contemporary Art Gyumri Armenia 2002, 2004 She designed and organized the exhibition “The Armenians in Netherlands” for the tropical Museum (KIT) in 1999-2000 and many fine art projects before and after. She is founder of East and west artists association and Art Cage gallery and cultural center. The critic has said: “AnnyRose is an artist in permanent evolution; however, she remains faithful to herself and to a vision of the world that is nurtured equally from the mythical, the telluric, and the universal concern for humanity and its destiny”.

Her work is found in many collections in Armenia, Europe and USA.

Other:
-CulturalCentermanagement – all aspects of programming, scheduling, staff and volunteer management.
-Facility management, including oversight of renovations and repurposing;
-Project coordination

-2004 She proposed to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences, Her Project “ABC Kmer 6“ PDF is to be find at personal website.
-Teaching Drawing & painting techniques since 2004

Lessons at schools: 
Every lesson I teach is tought with passion and feeling. I do my utmost to persuade the children that there is more than arts and craft and pottering, and that one can actually learn from what I teach. Art will make people handy later in life, it will help them out doing things around the house and help them adjust the environment to their needs. Arts and craft tends to go in the direction of life, they are creative expressions that one can use to entertain a child. But art... art moves in many worlds. In the world of science, for instance. It makes one want to look into things, ask questions and reflex on the answers. Art will sharpen spirit and wit, it gets you involved with politics, literature, history and philosophy.



Including:
Editorial Illustration

Consultant for Branding & Corporate Identity Designs.

Others:
Statement  at presentation of sculptures and Ceramics..
My art is a manifestation of a creative process transformed into a visual state of collective logic's. Communication is a key factor in humanity, and I use this basis to experiment and search for a language that symbolically depicts the norms of our rich culture and beautiful nature. The organic and most intense forms reveal my inner sensitivity, and the harmony I find in the world around.

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few words by gathering with the fellow colleg's: 


My works continue be one particular cultural heritage: That of the Orient sculpting and masonry tradition from afar to the modernity.

paar word bij het verzameling van de collegiale:
Mijn werken voort te zetten een bepaalde culturele erfgoed: Dat van het Oosten beeldhouwen en metselwerk traditie van verre naar de moderniteit.

nahap001@planet.nl

They say “AnnyRose is a great fun to work with. She is an exceptionally good team leader with lots of fresh and original ideas. She can take on a complex assignments and deliver an outcome which is sympathetic and true to the original concept. She loves to explore new ideas and assignments.

Experienced in running and organising all aspects of a lively Cultural centre:

Motivating staff and voluntaries.

Talent scouting and booking new artists and events.

Managing renovations and rescheduling current projects.

Artist Statement:

My work could be seen as modern carving techniques inspired by rich and exquisite techniques of traditional goldsmiths and stonemasons of Armenia.

Everything that I create by drawing or engraving in any media is instinctive and inspired from my childhood. My mothers crochet work, which I have many examples of, is great source of inspiration.

In creation of my artwork equipment and tools are deliberately kept to minimum instead wide palette of colours are used to express my emotions, dreams and artistic aspirations.

Over the years use of colours and carving technique have become distinctive mark of my creations.

Experiences from variety of countries and cultures is recurring theme that enrich my creations.

Discovering, exploring and working with new materials and techniques is very exhilarating experience. Unusual and unexpected outcomes sustain my creative work. 

About AnnyRose in media:

AnnyRose Nahapetian, Armenian Iranian artist, studied in Germany, England. Her work includes, painting, sculpture, ceramic and Bronze techniques. She has exhibited individually and collectively in Europe And United Stats of America. She has represented Armenian Khachkars and Iranian ornamental symbols in art events like the International Biennial of Contemporary Art Gyumri Armenia 2002, 2004 She designed and organized the exhibition “The Armenians in Netherlands” for the tropical Museum (KIT) in 1999-2000 and many fine art projects before and after. She is founder of East and west artists association and Art Cage gallery and cultural center. The critic has said: “AnnyRose is an artist in permanent evolution; however, she remains faithful to herself and to a vision of the world that is nurtured equally from the mythical, the telluric, and the universal concern for humanity and its destiny”.
Her work is found in many collections in Armenia, Europe and USA.

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