Levon Lachikyan

Levon Lachikyan Լևոն Լաճիկյան

Born	1955 (age 60–61) Gyumri, Armenia
Occupation	art critic, graphic drawer

Levon Lachikyan (Armenian: Լևոն Լաճիկյան, 1955, September 7, Gyumri) art critic, graphic drawer.

RA Honored artist Samvel Lajikian’s brother.

Biography

In 1977 Levon Lachikyan graduated from the Philological department of Yerevan State University (YSU), 1980 - Completed Ph.D. in Aesthetics at YSU. Since 1999 he is a Member of RA Artists' Union, since 2005-Member of RA Journalists' Union.

He made a series of graphic drawings.

1981-1996 Lachikyan lectured at Yerevan State University, 1992-1994-An Art-critic at the daily “AZG”, 1996-2011 he had been Press secretary at Fund for Armenian Relief, since 2012 - Head of the Department of Armenian Communities of America at the RA Ministry of Diaspora, sice 2013 to present he is a lecturer at Yerevan State University.

Lachikyan's scientific and art articles were published in Armenian and international journals (“Bazmavep,” Hantes amsorya etc.) and encyclopedias (“Christian Armenia Encyclopedia”)^[1]

Books

“Spiritual Tinklings of Dark Days”, (Arm.), Yerevan, 2004
“The Wonderful Alphabet”, (Eng.) New York, 2005^[2]
“Ode to Armenian,” (Arm.), Yerevan, 2005
“Crossing Roads,” (Arm.) Yerevan, 2006
“Crossing Roads,” (Eng.), Yerevan, 2012,^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
‘’My Armenia’’, (Arm.), Yerevan, 2015

Personal exhibitions

“Native lands”, Goris, July 2010
“Crossing Roads”, Narekatsi Art Center, Yerevan, September 2010^[7]
“Gyumri, my Love”, Gyumri, December 2010,^[8]^[9]^[10]
“Crossing Roads”, Educational-Culture Center “Espas,” Yerevan, July 2011
“The Armenian World”, New York, Kalustian Hall, December 2011^[11]
“Heritage without Borders”, The State Museum of Nature of Armenia, Yerevan, September 2013
“Bolis Reflections”, Eurasia Partnership Foundation-Armenia, Yerevan, April 2015
“Istanbul: So close and so far!”, Istanbul, Kinali Island, July 2015^[12]

Awards

In 2010 Lachikyan was awarded a Gold Medal of the RA Ministry of Culture.

Quotes on Levon Lachikyan

‘’I am immensely impressed by Levon Lachikyan’s drawings. They are elegant and sensitive works with the sense of space and fine composition.
It is of great importance that Levon’s drawings are not simple reproductions of the substance or mere documentation. Along with presenting the architectural details of various constructions he is able to abstract from them and manifest his individual attitude towards the matter’’.
Hagop Hagopian, Armenian prominent artist

“A lot of people have written about culture and a lot of them will still write. However, I strongly believe that not everyone should write about art and generally culture. Only those, who, firstly, love and then understand the art. Levon Lachikyan’s articles are marked by the synthesis of these two. As a result, the reader waits for his articles. An appraisal, considered the highest for any author”.
Tigran Levonyan, RA National Artist

Quotes of Levon Lachikyan

“A painter is the person, who possesses the sight of a painter and ability to see and feel what he saw. To my belief, the greatest Armenian painter is Aksel Bakunc, the writer. With the help of words he manages to create such images that the brush is unable to”.

“For me, buildings are not stone soulless constructions. They are rather citadels of a human soul - carving environment, character, mentality and taste”.

Gallery

Makaravank
Goris, Aksel Bakunts Museum
Gyumri, st. 14
K. Polis, Dolmabahche
Galata Tower

References

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