Sargis Muradyan: Sardarapat

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the History Museum of Armenia and National Museum of Armenian Ethnography and History of Liberal Struggle, presents the exhibition, Sargis Muradyan: Sardarapat dedicated to the 95th birthday anniversary of the artist. In Sasuntsi Davit Gallery the triptych Heroic Battle of Sardarapat is displayed։ 1918, Battle of Sardarapat, Near the Monument of Sardarapat Battle.

Sargis Muradyan (1927-2007) is one of the most celebrated Armenian artists of post-war period and his oeuvre is profoundly connected with the epic pages of Armenian history and the national liberation struggle.

For the Cafesjian Center for the Arts the display of this triptych is significant from several perspectives. One can see the Battle of Avarayr, the central piece of Grigor Khanjyan’s monumental triptych mural and Artashes Hovsepyan’s Sasuntsi Davit relief as inseparable parts of Cascade complex. In that context, Sargis Muradyan’s Heroic Battle of Sardarapat seems to give new layers to the Center’s vision, especially by creating new aura in Sasuntsi Davit gallery.