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Conference will be held on June 4, Saturday within the frame of the exhibition “Day After Day” which Aret Gıcır treats memory, history, forgetting, and time suspended between life and death departing from İstanbul Armenian Patriarch, Mesrob II’s mental disease, fronto-temporal demans
Nora Tataryan, Yetvart Tovmasyan, Sevan Değirmenciyan and Rober Koptaş will join the conference as speaker that will be organized at İstanbul Karaköy Rum School at 4-6 p.m.
About the book and exhibiton "From Day to Day"
Painter Aret Gıcır Gıcır departing from mental disease of İstanbul Armenian Patriarch, Mesrob II which sick him in bed unconsciously deals with memory, history, forgetting, and time suspended between life and death in “From Day to Day” published by Aras Publications.
The book named after the first poem of poet Garbis Cancikyan who died at the age of 26, fictionalizes patriarch’s unconsciousness and stains and the withering of traumatized social memory around his unconsciousness state.
The painter Gıcır tells story of a society in his departing from Patriarch Mesrob in his paintings deeply affecting human.
Weapon metaphor we see in the paintings conjures up the suicide plan against the Patriarch, threats against Armenian society, the things lived before and after murder of Hrant Dink.
The book can be read in three languages, namely Turkish, Armenian, and English. (EKN/TK)
About Aret Gıcır The typecasting "Azınlıkyan" he created was published in Agos daily between the years of 1997-2000, then published into a book in 2001. He received education of painting, comics, illustration at Ecole Emile Cohl in France's Lyon in 2000. He received education of painting at State Fine Arts Academy in Yerevan city in Armenia between the years of 2002-2008. His book titled "I am not Topik! Yerevan Diary" in 2005 and "I want to go back to past of January 19" written in memory of Hrant Dink in 2008 were published. He continues his works in İstanbul. | |
