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MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA ARMENIAN KNOT: TRADITIONS OF CARPET WEAVING ART I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e
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20.11.2013
Fresco Hall of the National Gallery of RA
9:00
Registration of participants
9:30
Opening ceremony
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Opening speech – Hasmik Poghosyan, Minister of Culture of RA
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Welcome speech The patriarchal blessing of His Holiness Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II Radik Martirosyan, President of the National Academy of Sciences of RA 10:00
Plenary Session
Lauren Arnold, USA, Independent Scholar and Researcher at Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco, California, culture expert The Carpet Index and the Re-discovery of Armenian Rugs in Early Renaissance Paintings Ashkhunj Poghosyan, Armenia, Cultural Values Expertise Center SNCO Ministry of Culture of RA; Senior expert, PhD in History On the Issue of the Origin of Anatolian Rugs” 10:30–10:50 Cultural event: Performance of the artists of the Armenian State Mime Theatre, Artistic director Jirayr Dadasyan, Armenian Traditional Music Ensemble, Artistic director Hovik Sahakyan 11:00–11:15
Coffee break
11:15–13:00
Exhibitions: ”Armenian Rug Weaving Art”, the History Museum of Armenia and “Mushegh and Mikhael Martirosyan-Chaloyans’ rug collection”, the National Gallery
13:20–14:20
Lunch, the restaurant of Imperial hotel
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14:30–17:00 Session 1 The Major Issues of Armenian Rug Studies The Big Hall of the National Library of RA Convenors Ashkhunj Poghosyan, Armenia Stefano Ionescu, Italy, Rome, Transylvanian rugs studies, Independent Researcher, culture expert Presentations 1.1. Hakob Simonyan, Armenia, Director of the Research Centre of Cultural and Historical Heritage, Ministry of Culture of RA; PhD in History The Influence of the Armenian Bronze Age Art Design on Rug Making Art 1.2. Anna Azizyan, Armenia, PhD student, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of National Academy of Sciences of RA; Head of the Research Department of “Erebuni” Historical and Archaeological Reserve Museum Comparative Parallels in the 19th–20th century Rug Patterns and Early Bronze Age / Kura-Araks/ Pottery Ornamentation Motifs 1.3. Lusine Margaryan, Armenia, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of NAS RA, PhD student Newly Found Textiles of Areni 1 Cave as a Source of Study of Armenian Spinning Art 1.4. Dickran Kouymjian, France, Paris; Armenologist, PhD of Columbia University The Berlin Phoenix Dragon-rug and its Probable Armenian Origin 1.5. Melania Babayan, NKR, Director at Artsakh State Lands and History Museum; PhD in History On the Issue of Artsakh Rug Weaving Culture
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1.6. Mehmed Chetin, Turkey, Istanbul; Expert of oriental carpets On Anatolian Rugs 1.7. Ashkhunj Poghosyan, Armenia, Cultural Values Expertise Centre SNCO, Ministry of Culture of RA Tatevik Muradyan, Armenia, People’s Art Centre after Hovhannes Sharambeyan, researcher, ethnographer Traditions of Armenian Rug Weaving Art in the North Eastern Transcaucasia 1.8. Alberto Boralevi, Italy, Florence, Chair of the Academic Committee ICOC (International Conference on Oriental Carpets), expert of textiles) The Mystery of Armenian ‘Niche’ Rug and its Analogous Samples
14:30–17:00 Session 2 Major Items of Rug and Textiles Conservation and Restoration. Rugs at Present The Small Hall of the National Library of RA Convenors Artur Telfeyan, Austria, Vienna,Vienna University; Lecturer at Vienna University, expert of Eastern carpets, technologist, culture expert Janice Bedoukian, USA, San Francisco; Art Studies Presentations 2.1. Avedis Kouyounnian, Sargis Kouyounnian, Lebanon, Beirut; Oriental rug experts, restoration technologists On Technologies of Antique Rug Restoration, Maintenance and Conservation 2.2. Artur Telfeyan, Austria, Vienna; Lecturer at Vienna University, expert of Eastern carpets, technologist, culture expert The Use of the Natural Red Dyes in Textile Art – with a Special View on Kermes in Armenia 2.3. Sevak Khachatryan, NKR, Executive Director of “Karabakh Rug” Company The Revival of Artsakh Rugs in “Karabakh Rug” Enterprises 2.4. Hayk Ayvazyan, Armenia, Marketing Director of “Megerian Rug” Company Current Issues of Rug Trade 2.5. Gurgen Arakelyan, Armenia, carpet expert and technologist Jose Valldares, Spain, Barcelona; Independent scholar, PhD An Attempt of Reconstruction of Spanish Medieval Rugs 2.6. Tatyana Krupa, Ukraine, Kharkov State University after V. N. Karazin; Archaeologist, restorer The Study of Archaeological Textile: Methodology, Possibilities and Perspectives 2.7. LIanna Gevorgyan, Armenia, Vice director of “Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum Reservations” SNCO The Peculiarities of Conservation and Display of Rug-Woven Museum Objects 2.8. Tatyana Krupa, Ukraine, Kharkov State University after V. N. Karazin; Archaeologist, restorer Kharkov ‘Kots’: Major Issues of Study and Restitution 17:30–19:00
Visit to the “Megeryan Carpe” Company
19:00
Cultural event
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21.11.2013 Day II 9:00–11:30 Session 1 Armenian Rugs in Armenian and Foreign Collections The Big Hall of the National Library of RA Convenors Harold Bedoukian, USA, San Francisco; Member of the Association of Armenian Rugs, Oriental rugs expert Melania Balayan, NKR, Director at Artsakh State Lands and History Museum; PhD in History Presentations 1.1. Harold Bedoukian, USA, San Francisco; Member of the Association of Armenian Rugs, Oriental rugs expert Rugs, Woven by Orphans and Rugs with Armenian Lettered Inscriptions in Private Collections 1.2. Svetlana Poghosyan, Armenia, Memorial Complex of Sardarapat Battle, National Museum of Armenian Ethnography and History of Liberal Struggle SNCO, ethnographer, PhD in History Characteristics of AESM Portrait Rugs /on the rug collection of the Armenian Ethnography Museum 1.3. Reverend Father Asoghik Karapetyan, Armenia, Director of Museums and Archives of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin Rug Collection of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin 1.4. Lusine Ghushchyan, Russian Federation, St. Petersburg; Researcher at the Russian Museum of Ethnography Rugs of 1916 Van Expedition in the Collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography
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1.5. Tadeusz Majda, Poland, Warsaw, Member of the Board of Trustees of Teresa Sahakian Foundation, Professor at Warsaw University, Art studies The Oriental Rug Collection of Teresa and George Sahakians 1.6. Stefano Ionescu, Italy, Rome; Transylvanian Rugs Studies, Independent Researcher, culture expert Armenian Rug-makers in Romania 1.7. Sofia Khachmanyan, USA, Fashion Designer/Textile Specialist with the ˝Armenian Dress and Textile Project˝/, Professor at Art Institute of CaliforniaHollywood in Los Angeles and Santa Monica City College The Silk-Piled Rugs in the Telfeyan Collection from Caesarea-Kesaria 1.8. Lilia Avanesyan, Armenia, History Museum of Armenia, researcher Key Issues of Study and Typology of Armenian Rug Weaving Art
1.9. Piter Martin Gmür, Germany, Zurich; Oriental rug expert Vahan Hovakimyan, Austria, Vienna, Director of Mkhitaryan Congregation Museum The Rug Collection of Mkhitaryan Congragation of Vienna
9:00–11:30 Session 2 Ornamentation System and Symbolism of Armenian Rugs The Small Hall of the National Library of RA Convenors Karine Bazeyan, Armenia, Vice Director of Hovhannes Sharambeyan People’s Art Centre; PhD in History Tatyana Krupa, Ukraine, Kharkov State University after V.N. Karazin; archaeologist, restorer Presentations 2.1. Janice Bedoukian, USA, San Francisco; Art Studies Armenian Rugs and Flat Weaves: Comparative Studies in Structure and Design 2.2. Zhenia Khachatryan, Armenia, senior researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA, philologist, PhD in History The Semantic Interrelation of Pazyryk Rug and Funerary Dances 2.3. Vardan Astsatryan, NKR; Founding director of Shusha Rug Museum, Advisor to the President of NKR, rug expert Early Rug Weaving Art of Karabakh –Artsakh 2.4. Amalia Sargsyan, Armenia; Keeper at Hovhannes Sharambeyan People’s Art Center, PhD in History The Rug Patterns and their Affinities with Decorative Wood Carving 2.5. Victoria Isahakyan, Armenia, Researcher at Historical and Cultural Reserve Museums and the Historical Environment Preservation Service SNCO Some Manifestations of the World Ethnic Model in the Decorative Motifs of Armenian Rugs
11:30–12:00
Coffee break
12:00–12:30
Discussion
12:30–13:30
People’s Art Center after Hovhannes Sharambeyan. Inauguration of the exhibition of Armenian rugs
14:30–15:30
Lunch, Tufenkyan Historic Yerevan Restaurant, Yerevan, 48 Hanrapetutyan street
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15:30–16:30
Visit to the Memorial Complex of Sardarapat Battle, National Museum of Armenian Ethnography and History of Liberal Struggle SNCO
Succession of the session 16:40–18:00 Session 3 The Ornamentation System and Symbolism of Armenian Rugs Memorial Complex of Sardarapat Battle, Conference Hall of the National Museum of Armenian Ethnography and History of Liberal Struggle SNCO Convenors Svetlana Poghosyan, Armenia, Memorial Complex of Sardarapat Battle, National Museum of Armenian Ethnography and History of Liberal Struggle SNCO, ethnographer, PhD in History Ashkhunj Poghosyan, Cultural Values Expertise Centre SNCO, Ministry of Culture of RA Presentations 2.1. Hratch Kozibeyokian, USA, California, Shadow Hills, Los Angeles; Expert of oriental carpets, technologist Interrelationship between the Ornamentation Principles of the Artistic Weaving of the Armenian Rug 2.2. Karine Bazeyan, Armenia, Vice director of Hovhannes Sharambeyan People’s Art Centre; PhD in History On Affinities of Armenian Embroidered Towel Patterns and Traditions of Rug Ornamentation
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2.3. Arus Asatryan, Armenia, Head keeper of Memorial Complex of Sardarapat Battle, National Museum of Armenian Ethnography and History of Liberal Struggle SNCO The Classical Dragon Rug of the Museum of Armenian Ethnography 2.4. Hesam Keshavarz, Iran, Tehran; PhD student of Art Research, Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran, Faculty of Arts The Comparative Study Between the Motifs of the Armenian Carpets and the Qashqai Carpets 2.5. Edgard Hamalyan, Belgium, Brussels; President of Oriental Rugs Union Armenian Rug Patterns and their Symbolism 2.6. Ani Samsonyan, Armenia; Journalist at “Haynews” Press Club On Propaganda Techniques of Azerbaijani Rug Weaving Culture 19:00 Dinner, restaurant “Hatsatoun” in Memorial Complex of Sardarapat
22.11.2013
Day III
09:00–10:30
Visit to Yerevan History Museum
10:30–12:00 Closing session The Big Hall of the National Library of RA Convenors Ashkhunj Poghosyan, Cultural Values Expertise Center SNCO, Ministry of Culture of RA Stefano Ionescu, Italy, Rome; Transylvanian Rugs Studies, Independent Researcher, culture expert Summary of the conference 12:00–12:30
Coffee break
13:00–15:30 Visit to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin; Museum, Treasury 16:00–17:30
Visit to the “Matenadaran” /Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts/
18:00
Conference Dinner – Tufenkyan Historic Yerevan Complex, “Kharpert” Restaurant, Yerevan, 48 Hanrapetutyan street
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