Sayat Nova in Yerevan
Well-known French Armenian sculptor Toros Raskelenyan's statue of "Sayat Nova" was installed today on the Sayat Nova-Khanjyan intersection in Yerevan under the joint initiative of the RA Ministry of Diaspora and the Yerevan city council.
Toros Raskelenyan was born in 1934 in the Syrian city of Aleppo where the Raskelenyan family had emigrated from the Urfa city of Western Armenia. He later moved to France in his prime and needed unbreakable will and irrefutable talent to catch the eye of the French and develop.
Today more than 30 of Toros's sculptures decorate different cities of France. He has hand-made works such as the crosses on the dome and steeple of the St. Gevorg Church in Aleppo and other works.
Toros Raskelenyan has held numerous individual exhibitions in different countries around the world, but none of his works had been shown in the Homeland to this day.
As RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan said in her opening remarks, "Toros returned home because one of his best pieces of art was transferred to the Homeland and installed on the street with the name of the creation itself."
Sayat Nova will soon turn 300 years old and the installation of this sculpture on the street named after Sayat Nova is the best present for the famous troubadour.
