{"id":747,"date":"2020-10-02T03:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siqueirosfoundation.org\/?p=747"},"modified":"2021-07-13T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:45:25","slug":"meet-one-of-our-directors-of-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siqueirosfoundation.org\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Meet one of our Directors of Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yossi Vardan, was born in Chechnya to an artist and a\u00a0school principal. After beginning art school at the age of six, Vardan had his first solo\u00a0exhibition at age of 10. After graduating, he was accepted to an art school for the future\u00a0students of The Academy of Fine Art.<\/p>\n

Vardan\u2019s work is a process that transforms ordinary matter into an extraordinary form that\u00a0connects the realm of dreams and fillings with the material world. Conceptual Realism is a\u00a0style that he has developed over many years. This is a continuation of the traditional style\u00a0created by his beloved mentor\u00a0Ernst Neizvestny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vardan is a third-generation sculptor, who graduated with an MFA from the Academy of\u00a0Industrial and Fine Arts in Russia, and is currently working on his PhD, with a thesis\u00a0dedicated to the Cappella Sistina.\u00a0In 1997, after living through the turmoil of two wars in his homeland, Vardan was forced to leave the Soviet Union and fled to the United States due to the\u00a0several factors and one of them was his Armenian ancestry. He comes from one\u00a0of the prominent Armenian dynasties of Karabach, the dynasty of Melik Egan, the son of the\u00a0Catholicos Gukas the First Garnetzy,\u00a0house of Cilicia<\/a>\u00a0(1731-1737). His family roots began\u00a0during the\u00a0Second Jerusalem Temple<\/a>, when in the First Century of BC, his and several other\u00a0noble families of Jerusalem were invited to move to Armenia by the Emperor\u00a0Tigranes the<\/a>Great.<\/p>\n

Several years later, Vardan was recognized by the highly acclaimed sculptor Ernst\u00a0Neizvestny as his only apprentice. Vardan is also the only non-American born Industrial\u00a0Designer chosen to become one of the creators of presidential limousines for two US\u00a0presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

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Vardan works with traditional materials including stone, bronze, steel, glass, and has\u00a0participated in some of the most exclusive projects worldwide including monuments, mosaic\u00a0murals, portrait sculptures, and oversized stained glass as well as Roman, Florentine, and\u00a0Byzantine mosaics. Vardan\u2019s works are located in private collections in Saudi Arabia, France, England, Israel, Germany, Spain, and Russia. His more recent works are located in California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Oklahoma, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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