Aziz art March 2018

He used ethnic food such as "Nan
Sangak" and "Abghousht"
to evoke authenticity in his work.
Grigorian was a trend setter in
experimenting with Earth Art, in
Iran.
Grigorian eventually moved to
Yerevan, Armenia
(which was then still a republic of
the Soviet Union). In 1989, he
traveled to Russia at the invitation
of the Union of Russian Artists,
visiting Moscow and Leningrad.
He exhibited his clay and straw
works in Yerevan in 1991. He later
donated 5,000 of his artworks to
the government of Armenia. In
1993 he founded the "Museum of
the Middle East" in Yerevan: 2,600
exhibits are on display,
with most of them coming from
his own collection.
Some of his works are now on
display at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York City, the Tehran
Museum of Contemporary Art, the
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Kerman, and the National Gallery of
Armenia.
On 4 August 2007 Grigorian was
assaulted and beaten about the
head by two masked robbers who
had broken into his Yerevan home.
It was speculated that the robbers
believed, erroneously, that there
was a large sum of money in the
house, proceeds from the sale of
Grigorian's summer residence in
Garni. After an anonymous phone
call to police, Grigorian was
discovered injured and taken to
hospital. He died of a suspected
heart attack on 27 August 2007, a
day after leaving the hospital