Seta Manoukian:
Painting in Levitation
Edited by Aline Manoukian
Contributions
by Gregory Buchakjian,
Kristine Khouri and Aline
Manoukian
Co-published as part of
the Saradar
Collection x Kaph Books series
Book
design: Jérôme Saint-Loubert
Bié
Hardcover English / Arabic, 168
pages 21 x 27 cm. 130 artworks
reproductions (colored)
ISBN 978 - 614 - 8035 - 10 - 4
Seta
Manoukian: Painting in
Levitation
Edité par Aline Manoukian
Contributions
par Gregory Buchakjian,
Kristine Khouri et Aline
Manoukian
Co-édité dans
le cadre de la série Saradar
Collection x Kaph Books
Conception graphique: Jérôme
Saint-Loubert Bié
Anglais / Arabe, 168
pages 21 x 27 cm, 130
reproductions
ISBN 978 - 614 - 8035 - 10 - 4
Painting in
levitation, Painting
for healing
Essay by Gregory
Buchakjian
[Excerpt]
The
decade of war painting is a
testimony of a human experience
during which “people have been
very much affected. They were not
afraid of death anymore. We became
old.” Initially, there was
something enjoyable about it:
“When war broke out I had finished
my own personal war. However,
things were crazy; I was very
joyful and always ready to help
others. I had become reconciled
with myself. During that period, I
forgot the horizon and was more
preoccupied with
waves.” Then, “war
finally got to me, then fear, and
I decided to leave.” In his
“Letter to an Immigrant”, Pierre
Abi Saab asks why he is sad: “Is
it because you packed your luggage
and left behind your life, our
lives? Is it because you are one
of Beirut’s most liberated women
and one of the most Arab of the
city’s Armenians? Is it because
you are the most open-minded among
the partisans and the most
engaged, among the open-minded,
toward the causes of the people
from all neighborhoods?”
