ZURICH, OCTOBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The exhibition "Armenian landscape paintings in modern art and architecture" opened on October 4 in the "EWZ" exhibition chamber in Zurich. It has been organized by the efforts of the Embassy of Armenia in Switzerland with a close cooperation with the municipality of Zurich. The exhibition, which is being held under the title "Landscape painting of symbols, landscape painting of constructed environment, landscape painting of dreams", is dedicated to the Armenian modern art and architecture. It introduces to the spectator how the locality, settlement and environment in comparison influence and leave their impress on architecture, literature, art, and music. According to the infomation provided to Noyan Tapan by the Press and Information Department of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this exhibition is a regular one among events organized by the RA Embassy in Switzerland, which aim at presenting the rich cultural heritage of Armenia as a peculiar existence formed at the crossroad of the East and the West. The most significant among them is the exhibition "The miniature painting of Armenia: the collection of Matenadaran (Armenian repository of ancient manuscripts)" opened in Zhnev in September.

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