Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian

Book Talk with Sato Moughalian

June 21, 2019
17.00–19.00
This lecture is free to attend and no registration is required. But please note that seating is on a first-come first-serve basis.

London Middle East Institute at SOAS, SOAS, University of London, MBI Al Jaber Building, 21 Russell Square, London

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Sato Moughalian presents her newly published book, Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian (April 2019, Stanford University Press). In an illustrated talk, she will recount the career of her grandfather, the renowned ceramicist who mastered the Kütahya tradition in the years before the Great War and in 1919 founded the art known today as the Armenian ceramics of Jerusalem. Drawing from a variety of sources, Moughalian traces the trajectory of the late Ottoman Kütahya art and its revival, particularly after the 1908 Revolution, Ohannessian’s participation in a planned British renovation of the Dome of the Rock and his recreation of the Anatolian ceramics tradition in Palestine.

Sato Moughalian is an award-winning flutist in New York City and Artistic Director of Perspectives Ensemble, founded in 1993 to explore and contextualize works of composers and visual artists. Since 2007, Ms Moughalian has also traveled to Turkey, England, Israel, Palestine and France to uncover the traces of her grandfather’s life and work, has published articles, and gives talks on the genesis of Jerusalem’s Armenian ceramic art.