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Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Color

Armenian Arts Council


Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Color
7 nov. 2026   4:30 PM
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University
24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011
New York - United States

Book Presentation, Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Color

(Skira, 2025)

Edited by Vartan Karapetian and Marie Tomb

In collaboration with Armenian Arts Council

Featuring a panel discussion with:

Ara H. Merjian, NYU

Vartan Karapetian, independent scholar

Marie Tomb, independent curator and art historian

Silvia Burini, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Hrag Vartanian, Founding editor, Hyperallergic

Tamar Marie Boyadjian, poet, translator, and author

Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour (Skira, 2025) reassesses a major 20th-century modernist whose work has long resisted categorization. Edited by Vartan Karapetian and Marie Tomb, the first English-language monograph devoted to the artist brings together works from the Janibekyan Collection and the National Gallery of Armenia alongside holdings from museums and private collections across Europe, Asia, and North America. Working in the disparate contexts of Lebanese nationalism, French colonialism, Soviet Stalinism, and Armenian socialism, the artist developed a singular modernist language rooted in color and psychological portraiture. Through paintings, archival documents, correspondence, and memoirs, the book situates Galentz as a cosmopolitan modernist whose work demands to be read across borders rather than within national canons.


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