Prime Minister Pashinyan, Anna Hakobyan visit Ghosts of Communism’s Demise exhibition in Gyumri

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 16, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan have visited the Sergey Merkurov House-Museum in Gyumri to view the Ghosts of Communism’s Demise exhibition by painter Karen Ohanyan.

The exhibition will be open until the end of January 2024. Most of the paintings are in the genre of landscape and still life.

“These two traditional genres have gotten an unexpected, innovative and impressive interpretation in Karen Ohanyan’s new series of work,” the prime minister’s office said in a press release.

“In his works, he expresses himself about the demise of communism and war sometimes directly, and sometimes by creating impressive artistic symbols and metaphors.”