Centro Studi Hrand Nazariantz

by Carlo Coppola On September 9, starting at 6:30 PM, the Mouradick Art Center (77 Loris-Melikov Street) will screen Heritage: Ara Harutyunyan , a documentary by acclaimed Armenian director Ruben Kochar — son of artist Yerevand Kochar — dedicated to the sculptor who gave shape to the monumental memory of contemporary Armenia. The film belongs to a deeper effort to preserve and give new life to Armenian cultural memory. Weaving together precious archival footage with close, deliberate camerawork, it examines the sculptor's immense visual and social impact, offering — in the production's own words — not a mere catalogue of works, but the very "matter" of the sculptures themselves: an emotional bridge between the public and the urban space where these works continue to live. Kochar does not simply document the monuments; he studies them up close, restoring their three-dimensionality, their weight, their surface — as though stone and bronze could still speak of the ...