Ervand Kochar Museum
Avant-garde sculptor's former studio, with sketches for a statue Soviet censors once destroyed.
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This guide to the Ervand Kochar Museum in Yerevan opens with a motorized painting whose metal panels shift so slowly you barely catch them moving, a piece Kochar built in 1934 Paris under an idea he called painting in space. It follows his 1936 manifesto alongside Kandinsky and Duchamp, his surprising move from Paris back to Soviet Armenia, and the plaster statue of David of Sassoun he unveiled in the city's railway square, which delighted crowds but drew the attention of Stalin's censors. Down the hall in the studio you can still see his sketches for that horseman.
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