The Estate of Chant Avedissian

Chant Avedissian’s work synthesises the colours and geometric patterns that are repeated all along the Silk Route and Egypt. This sketch compilation and selection by the artist makes up an iconographic archive of the East that nourishes his visual discourse about the permeability of cultures. The artist, almost without being aware of it, has created a kind of specific propaganda for the ‘Great East’, a term that Avedissian himself could have coined. Avedissian lost those sketches he created during 1972 and 1982 years but luckily, there are still printed copies of them.