Artist's wife is ready to sell some of the canvases to set up a museum

Aghasi Ayvazyan himself admitted in one of his interviews that he liked painting more. "Painting, staging a film, a performance. I do not write but stage a play. Writing has a technical side which I do not like. You have to sit and write for a long time. It's no coincidence that I write short stories. In Armenia the shortest stories are written by me. I wrote the shortest novel. I cannot read long stories..." An exhibition of the prose writer, screenwriter, painter Aghasi Ayvazyan opened at Alexander Tamanyan Architecture Museum-Institute. "Instead of looking at the painting of Aghasi Ayvazyan, one should read them. His paintings speak and tell the story of our future lives," said Abgar Apinyan. Greta Veryan, Aghasi Ayvazyan's widow, has appealed to different instances to create Aghasi Ayvazyan's house-museum. Mrs. Greta was ready to even sell some of the paintings and to set up a museum where she would be Aivazian's archive, his library, and the rest of the canvases. But she could not find a rich benefactor who would be ready to buy the collection. Mrs. Greta is to meet the Minister of Culture today. "I hope that the problem will be solved." The exhibition of Aghasi Ayvazyan's paintings will be open till the end of October.