Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition the Chaire de l’Institut du

the Chaire de l’Institut du Monde Arabe (2003)

Costumes & Stencils is a reflection of the diverse peoples

and has lived in Brussels for more than thirty years

historian Nasser Rabbat

and covering the period from pre-1900 to the end of the twentieth century

Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition the Chaire de l’Institut duPatterns, Costumes & Stencils is a reflection of the diverse peoples, cultures, and traditions that have influenced Chant Avedissian's work, from the colorful textiles of Rajasthan and the glazed bricks of Samarkand to Egyptian magazine covers from the 1960s. Avedissian is an artist who continues to provoke through his iconoclastic images that probe ideas of consumerism, art and propaganda, creativity and copyright, and tradition and modernity.