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Shant (Chant) Avetisyan
Shant (Chant) Avetisyan, Egyptian-Armenian artist (1951 – 2018). From 1970 to 1978, he studied in Montreal and Paris. He then returned to Cairo. In the 1970s, for example, he designed costumes for the Armenian folk dance group Sardarapat. Avetisyan bought artworks from Heshmat. “In Egypt I am Armenian, in Europe I am Egyptian, but in China these definitions mean nothing.”