InternationalYerevan’s Tamanyan Park is a sculpture garden
Published: Tuesday September 22, 2009 in Cafesjian Center for the Arts
People sit on newly installed benches, joining join Lynn Chadwick's Sitting Figures, in the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden in Tamanyan Park, Yerevan.
Yerevan - Tamanyan Park, which spans the two city blocks leading to Yerevan's monumental Cascade, has been transformed into a sculpture garden, an integral part of Cafesjian Center for the Arts.
Yerevan residents and visitors have noticed that Fernando Botero's Roman Warrior has been moved from another part of the center to the sculpture park. Likewise, Lynn Chadwick's Sitting Figures and Barry Flanagan's Hare on Bell have been relocated to the park.
Unobstructed walkways, long vistas, and formal garden areas are elements of the design of the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden in Tamanyan Park to provide a modern setting for large-scale sculpture by internationally recognized artists.
In an effort to connect the entire Yerevan community with art and culture, the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden in Tamanyan Park provides people with access to contemporary art beyond the traditional museum experience.
"The quality of contemporary sculpture presented in the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden in Tamanyan Park is unparalleled," said Michael De Marsche, executive director of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts. "I am sure this unique area will be experienced and enjoyed by thousands of visitors each year as a permanent addition to the city of Yerevan. There are few cities in the world with a sculpture park of this quality," he added.
The grand opening of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts is scheduled for November 2009, and construction at the Cascade is continuing in anticipation of this event. The center will offer a wide variety of exhibitions from Gerard L. Cafesjian's private collection of contemporary art. A diverse program of visiting lecturers, classic films, musical concerts, and numerous educational programs will augment the center's vigorous exhibition schedule.
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Barry Flanagan, 68, sculptor of hares
The British sculptor Barry Flanagan, whose work Hare on Bell is on display in the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden in Tamanyan Park in Yerevan, died on August 31 in Ibiza, Spain. The New York Times wrote that he had "abandoned the idiosyncratic arrangements of common materials that characterized Postminimal sculpture to make sly if relatively traditional bronzes of exuberant, loose-limbed hares."
