INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-The commemoration ceremony of the late Iranian Armenian artist Marcos Grigorian will be held on Tuesday at the Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art (TMoCA).Organized on the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of the renowned artist, the ceremony is held simultaneous
Zeinali who has made a documentary about Grigorian, director of the Marcos Grigorian Foundation, and visual artist Michel Allahverdian, and
1930, where he later opened the Apadana Gallery in Tehran in 1949
Grigorian studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, graduating in 1954, and subsequently established the influential Galerie
He was instrumental in organizing the first Tehran Biennial in 1958 and was a dedicated educator at the Fine Arts Academy
Group of Free Painters and Sculptors in Tehran and was a founder member
Other founding artists included Gholamhossein Nami, Massoud Arabshahi, Morteza Momayez, Mir Abdolrez Daryabeigi, and Faramarz Pilaram.His
He exhibited his clay and straw works in Yerevan in 1991
Grigorian was also an early artist with land art in Iran.In his later years, he settled in Yerevan, Armenia, where he created the Museum of
the Middle East and donated thousands of artworks
underway at the TMoCA, provides a scholarly overview of five key phases of Grigorian's career, highlighting his contributions to the history
is the debut solo exhibition of Marcos Grigorian's works at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in over four decades of operation
The exhibit is organized by the Marcos Grigorian Foundation in Yerevan, Armenia.This exhibition seeks to contribute to introducing this
artist and his considerable influence on the evolution of Iranian contemporary painting to the current generation of painters and art
enthusiasts.The commemoration ceremony of Marcos Grigorian will start at 3 p.m
