Exhibition of Armenian artists to be held in Moscow 

The joint exhibition of four artists, Albert Atoyan, Albert Balayan, Ruben Ovanesov, and Johnny Tajdinov, entitled ‘Meeting on Maslovka’, will take place in the hall of the Association of Painters of the Moscow Union of Artists in Russia from February 26 to March 9.

Albert Balayan graduated from the Yerevan Art Institute. He has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1981. Balayan participated in republican, union, and foreign exhibitions. The artist’s works are displayed in museums, galleries, and private collections in Russia, Armenia, Japan, France, Austria, and the US.

Albert Atoyan (Ato) has been a member of the USSR Union of Designers since 1987. After graduating from art school, he continued to study industrial design. 
After 1991, he ceased exhibition activities and focused his efforts on laboratory research into contemporary art. Atoyan now works as a design artist and consultant at the Moscow Armenian Theater. He has staged a number of performances, with one of them being dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. 

His easel paintings and graphic works, spatial installations, and conceptual practice are distinguished by a wide range of themes, from the classic self-portrait to an ironic rethinking of Dadaism’s role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Ruben Ovanesov is from the Russian city of Kislovodsk. He graduated from the Gubkin Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry. Fascinated by art as an admiring spectator and connoisseur, he took up the brush himself. Ovanesov has been a member of the Moscow Art Museum of Russia since 2005 and a member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 2008. He actively participates in exhibitions in Moscow and other cities of Russia. His works are in museums, galleries, and private collections in Russia, Germany, and the US.