Volume L, No 3, July-September 2012 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

President Demetris Christofias inaugurates the exhibition
Cyprus, England, Barcelona and Tunisia.
Aznive Papazian was born in Larnaca in 1956.
She graduated from the Melkonian Educational
Institute, where she also taught. Papazian studied
painting, drawing, engraving and mosaic art,
as well as wood and small-scale clay sculpture.
She also worked with the painter Raphael Atoyan
in Armenia for two consecutive summers. Papazian’s
art exists within the sphere of figurative
and abstract expressionism – the two-way interplay
between man and the world is the inspiration
for Papazian’s work and its main axis. Her interests
are portraits, landscapes, still life, compositions
featuring the human figure and life drawing.
Papazian has had solo exhibitions in Armenia and
in Nicosia and has also taken part in a number of
group exhibitions in Cyprus.
Nanor Tashdjian was born in Nicosia in 1974.
She holds a BA in Graphic Arts from Frederick
University in Nicosia and an MA in Fine Arts
from the University of Wales in Cardiff. She loves
experimenting with different arts and crafts by
combining different colours, media and materials
in her paintings – she also works with glass fusing
and framework. The ocean is a prevalent theme in
her work. Tashdjian is an accomplished artist who
has presented her work in many solo and group
exhibitions in Cyprus, the UK, Sydney and Bangkok.
She lives and works in Cardiff, Wales.
Vartan Tashdjian was born in Lebanon in 1941.
Visitors had the opportunity to enjoy artwork by Armenian
painters and photographers
After graduating from the Melkonian Educational
Institute and the American University of Beirut, he
settled in Nicosia. Today Tashdjian is one of the
most important contemporary artists in Cyprus.
His paintings are a celebration of the beauty of nature
and life – the diverse landscapes of Cyprus are
one of his primary inspirations. An internationally
renowned artist, he has had 47 solo exhibitions in
Cyprus and abroad, as well as group exhibitions
in various cities. His work can be found in public
and private collections all over the world and at his
gallery in Nicosia. Tashdjian is actively involved
in the Armenian community.
Hourig Torossian was born in Nicosia in 1967.
She holds an Honours BA from the Wimbledon
School of Art and an MA in Fine Arts from the
Royal College of Art. Since graduating in 1994,
she has been an active artist, exhibiting in Cyprus,
Greece and the UK. In 2005 she represented Cyprus
in Austria in an exhibition highlighting artists
from the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004.
Torossian’s large-scale colour paintings on canvas
are essentially transformed from monochromatic
imagery. The raw materials for her figurative work
come from old family photographs or from decorative
iron window guards. Hourig is currently an
Assistant Professor in the Applied Arts Department
of Frederick University in Nicosia.
Georges Karnig Der Parthogh was a veteran
journalist, an international news photographer and
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