{"id":10414,"date":"2025-08-20T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpir.am\/?p=10414"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:10:47","slug":"international-art-festival-%d5%bd%d5%a1%d5%b0%d5%b4%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80-borders-granser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpir.am\/?p=10414&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"International Art Festival \u201c\u054d\u0561\u0570\u0574\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\/Borders \/ Gr\u00e4nser \/\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2025<\/strong>, international festivals titled \u201cArt Without Borders 2025\u201d<\/strong> began operating in various countries. Their purpose is to demonstrate the spiritual power of art and its language, which is understood by people all over the world and unites them despite linguistic, geopolitical, religious, ethnic, and cultural differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same spirit, the \u201c\u054d\u0561\u0570\u0574\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\/Borders \/ Gr\u00e4nser \/\u201d<\/strong> international festival project has been launched at the Art Education Center<\/strong> of the Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex<\/strong>. Among the participants are Martin Alund<\/strong>, Malin Bengtsson<\/strong>, Heidi Edstr\u00f6m<\/strong>, and Narek Aghajanyan<\/strong> from Sweden, while Gevorg Ayvazyan<\/strong> joins us from France. From our own Art Center, participants include Gagik Charchyan<\/strong>, Karine Matsakyan<\/strong>, Susan Amujanyan<\/strong>, Narek Hakobyan<\/strong>, and Knarik Nersisyan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would particularly like to present the works of the Swedish participants, who have been living for over two weeks in the educational exchange residence of the Northern School-Kindergarten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Martin Alund<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Martin Alund invited me to the spacious studio on the second floor of the Art School, where he has completed his large-scale landscape in two parts, titled \u201cMother.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a winter landscape from a northern country, unfamiliar to our eyes. Beyond the forest trees lies a scene typical of northern lands \u2014 the crimson sun that never rises above the horizon gradually fading into the gray sky clouds.
But where is Martin\u2019s mother in this painting?
Since the semi-darkness is typical of northern winters, it\u2019s difficult to notice the figure facing away from us, dressed in dark clothing and clearing their path with a long wooden stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my mind, I had already titled the painting \u201cThe Unreachable Sun in the North.\u201d<\/strong> I was about to share my invented title when Martin, with a special filial tenderness, softly said just one word: \u201cMother.\u201d<\/strong>
He had named the painting \u201cMother.\u201d<\/strong>
I didn\u2019t ask him why. I felt he had already answered the question when he said that word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Armenian, we say \u201cFatherland\u201d<\/strong>, but in English and Swedish, there are two versions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n