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Sculptor Nune Tumanyan, who has been stating for years that Yerevan should be decorated also with urban sculptures, continues to take steps to fulfill her wish and make Yerevan more attractive. Mrs. Nune is determined to achieve her goal.

Today, October 23, a member of the Armenian Union of Artists, Associate Professor Nune Tumanyan is celebrating her birthday today. Let’s congratulate Ms. Nune, wishing her to realize her initiative so that we see many urban sculptures appearing one after another in Yerevan. Panorama.am talked to the sculptor about the latest developments in her Urban Sculpture project.

“There is no news yet, but I am working on the project. I want to make clear the importance of the program, especially in the context of tourism development. After two failed attempts, I’ve got in on the third attempt. I believe this time at least a meeting will take place, and I will have the opportunity to introduce the program,” the sculptor said.

Mrs. Nune has no plans to organize a solo exhibition of her artworks in the near future since, as she put it, she is engulfed by the Urban Sculpture project.

Nune Tumanyan is a participant of numerous national and international exhibitions and competitions. She is a winner of several international awards, including one at the “Dante City Gates” Biennale in Ravenna, Italy, in 1998. She was awarded with the top prize at the “Women and Art: Interpreting Peace” exhibition held in Sharjah, UAE in 2014.

The medium of Nune Tumanyan’s works is mostly bronze, at times in combination with other media like glass, wood, stone, etc. Her art expresses the infinitely rich spiritual world of man – a world, which, knowing no peace and quiet, is constantly in motion, in conflicts, is full of delights, doubts, frustration. Each of Nune’s works is a complicated creative process, which inevitably brings to a clear expressive solution, characteristic of her own artistic individuality. Through her work, we see the sculptor as an artist, thinking in large-scale categories. Through the fragile poetic shell of her works, the significance of the basic idea always shows, which touches upon and half-opens the concealed sides of a human soul.

Nune Tumanyan held exhibitions as part of her Urban Sculpture project for the first time in 2015.