By Gayane Arakelyan
BERLIN (orer.eu) — On January 26, the “Facing Together” exhibition opened in Berlin’s “Toolbox” gallery, in which two Armenian artists, Archi Galentz and Gagik Kurghinyan, participated.
Kurghinyan presented his paintings, and Galentz mainly presented collage works created from 2004 to 2023.
The artists together created a graphic work that touches on the idea of unity, the need to help and protect each other back to back.
“We decided to draw a circle inside which we are, like in old fairy tales, when you made yourself invisible from evil forces by taking yourself inside that line. Although I have known Gagik for a long time, he recently moved to Berlin and he really needs that help,” Mr. Galentz said to us.
Gagik Kurghinyan was born in 1953 in Yerevan. At the age of 9, he moved to Ukraine with his family. He is a doctor by profession and has been painting since childhood. He attended an art school during his school years. Over time, he became a master and even became a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1990 to the present day). He moved to Berlin in 2022 due to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
