31/07/09
Yerevan is full of painters and cafes – seems like there’s one of each on every street corner. The first thing that strikes us is the heat – up to 40 degrees celsius. It is not too bad though as there is fresh watermelon juice everywhere. The Ararat mountain looks unreal, as if it was photoshopped into the skyline.
We arrived just in time to catch the end of the 4th edition of Summer Seminars For Contemporary Art Curators organised by AICA Armenia in the Mkhitar Sebastatsi Fine Arts College which also functions as a project space and a gallery for local and international artists and organisations. At the after party in the part of town known as Bangladesh (because of its remoteness from the centre of YErevan) we met artists and curators from all over Europe, the Middle East, the US and Armenia.
