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Exhibitions / Performances
Galerie Kaminska & Stocker - August 29 - September 26, 2020
September 12, 6 p.m. - "Traces du souffle"
Improvised live drawing and music, Alina Mnatsakanian & Barbara Minder

– MACT/CACT (Bellinzona) - Traces du souffle performance October 17, 2020
– Nat. Academy of Fine Arts gallery, Yerevan, Armenia - October 23 - November 3, 2020

Traces de souffle (Traces of breath)
Alina Mnatsakanian + Barbara Minder
Improvised live drawing and music
photos Zoé Lavanchy

In this collaborative project in the form of improvised performance, Alina Mnatsakanian intervenes with drawings that she creates live on a tablet while Barbara Minder plays on her augmented instruments.

The drawings in progress are projected on the walls to create ephemeral audio-visual atmospheres for the viewer.

Alina Mnatsakanian improvises on the basis of "Layers 8", a project in which she addresses the issue of mobility at the transgenerational level, these life experiences that affect not only the person, but also his/her descendants. Irregular shapes – interlaced boundaries – that create new forms and new identities based on the accumulation of experiences.

In response, Barbara Minder reflects on the sound tracks she carries in her. Places where she lived, family origins, places of today or yesterday that she carries in her heart, in her body. Her work includes eight original compositions, bases of improvisation.

8 Important Places for Alina Mnatsakanian - 8 Great Places to Barbara Minder. If these places have become important for them, it is at the mercy of the hazards of life. Private decisions, political changes, minor or fundamental turns that have brought these two artists here and now. To echo this fragile random story, couples of visual and sound locations are drawn at random and serve as a starting point for each performance.

Publications
My work appeared in a recent publication of Visarte Neuchâel.
Each year, since 1917, the artists of Visarte Neuchâtel (formerly SPSAS) take turns publishing an engraving or a multiple to offer them to museums, members and member-friends. The catalog raisonné 100 years of prints and multiples - art neuchâtelois 1917 - 2019 presents 111 listed works, with photos and captions of each work, the preface by Walter Tschopp and texts by Lucie Girardin-Cestone, Alexandra Blanc and Laetitia Neier. Editions du Griffon, 21x29.7cm, 132 pages ISBN 978-2-88006-120-3
Price: CHF 40 + shipping costs if sent CHF 30 for active members / friends of Visarte

Order : secretariat.visarteneuchatel(at)gmail.com

Artist book and booklet - One person died
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Artist book: 500 pages, limited edition of 100, hard-bound cloth cover + Booklet: 32 pages Livre d'artiste: 500 pages, edition limitée de 100, reliure pleine toile + Cahier critique: 32 pages CHF 150 / $150

One person died is a publication that follows on one hand and documents the thematic work of artist Alina Mnatsakanian on the Armenian Genocide. The publication consists of two books. A 500-page artist’s book in which the phrase “one person died” is repeated 1,500,000 times in reference to the victims of the Armenian genocide. It is a recognition of each person killed during this genocide, a necessary repetition that allows us to visualize the immensity of such a crime. The second volume is a booklet containing texts, accompanied by visual documents, about the corpus of works One Person Died and its origins in the work of Alina Mnatsakanian, each in the original language of the authors, with an English translation next to them. The authors are: Karine Tissot, Center for Contemporary Art, Yverdon- les-Bains; Mario Casanova, Museo e Centro d’Arte Contemporaneo del Ticino, Bellinzona; Alice Henkes, art critic, Biel; Ramela Grigorian, Los Angeles Pierce College; Suren Manukyan, deputy director of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute, Yerevan. - art&fiction, artists books

Recent exhibitions

Grand-Cachot-du-Vent - 28.6-16.8.2020

1 - 23 novembre 2019
Barbara Bandi, Berne
Susanne Glauser-Wasser, Berne
Marie-Claire Meier, La Neuveville
Alina Mnatsakanian, Neuchâtel
Carla Neis, Buttes / Berne
Els Patoor, Bruxelles
Odile Petitpierre, Lucerne
Li Portenlänger, Eichstätt
Enna Salis, Lucerne
Miriam Zegrer, Berlin
Curatrices de l‘exposition : Carla Neis et Annick Boillat-Richard
Tour de Diesse, galerie d‘art, Neuchâtel

Stadtmuseum Aarau, 17 x Neuchâtel - 18.7 - 11.8.2019
photo Geneviève Petermann
24th International Contemporary Art Fair Kunst 2018 Zürich with Galerie Kaminsa & Stocker, Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland
25 - 28 octobre 2018

15.9 - 14.10.2018
Galerie 2016, Hauterive, Neuchâtel

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