Berta Walker Gallery Leads the Charge
to Celebrate Iconic Collage Artist Varujan Boghosian
Varujan Boghosian turns 90 this year and Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts is hosting a series of exhibitions and events celebrating the iconic bricoleur.
Kent Fine Art summed up why Boghosian captures our attention at his exhibition at their New York gallery in November 2015: “As a practitioner of the modernist tradition of paste-ups in the wake of John Heartfield and Max Ernst, Varujan Boghosian speaks not only with things, but through the medium of found objects. By re-contextualizing 100 years-worth of found materials with scissors and paste, time and context are re-examined. Boghosian’s approach is intuitive and meditative, dealing less with external social factors and lending more focus to the materiality and history of the object. Fusion and juxtaposition are what sets his work apart along with an acute understanding of literary history, while his inquisitive nature is what lends poetry to his constructions. His use of contradictory visual elements is sympathetic to Ernst but the content he creates is all his own.”
A profile of Varujan Boghosian by Provincetown artist and writer André van der Wende will appear in Kolaj #16, to be released in July 2016. Celebrations for Boghosian’s 90th birthday include exhibitions at Berta Walker’s Galleries in Provincetown and Wellfleet, as well as at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in August, where Boghosian will be the featured honoured guest at the Center’s annual dinner and auction.
10 June to 10 July 2016
Naughty Nineties
at Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown. A celebration of four Provincetown-affiliated artists now on the cusp of 90!
Varujan Boghosian, Carmen Cicero, Edward Giobbi, Gloria Nardin
30 July to 21 August 2016
Varujan Boghosian at Ninety
at Berta Walker Gallery in Wellfleet. “Humor, Seriously!” Collage and constructions of Varujan Boghosian and his collaborations with Paul Resika. Opening Reception: 30 July, 3-5PM
29 July to 22 August 2016
A Celebration for Varujan Boghosian
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Varujan Boghosian will exhibit constructions and collage in his show “Poet Without Words” in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery of the Fine Arts Work Center. Learn more HERE.
In describing her excitement for Boghosian’s 90th birthday, Berta Walker eloquently deferred to Aldous Huxley, “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” May we all be so celebrated at that age.
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INFORMATION
Berta Walker Gallery
Suite 1
208 Bradford Street
Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657 USA
(508) 487-6411
Hours:
Through Labour Day, daily except Tuesday, 11AM-5PM
other times by appointment
Berta Walker Gallery Wellfleet
40 Main Street
Wellfleet, Massachusetts 02667 USA
(447) 383-3161
Hours:
Through Labour Day, Thursday-Monday, 11AM-4PM
other times by appointment
All images courtesy of Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown. See more HERE.