Argišt Alaverdyan
Anomaly 6
Artist
Argišt Alaverdyan
(1991, Kralupy nad Vltavou), Czech
Original Title
Anomalia 6
Date2017
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions120 × 90 cm
Classifications
paintings
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionArgišt Alaverdyan is a Czech painter, originally from Armenia, who thematises the dematerialised visuality of computers. At first glance, these works pick up on the tradition of abstract painting, but Alaverdyan considers the colour means, lines and fields as an open “gamic” field where he is in the role of “user.” With each series, the artist modifies rules which limit the form of the image itself, but at the same time these rules enable its creation. In this way he creates his own language, which is given by the synthesis of formal means and selected topics.
Anomalia 6 is part of a fourteen-piece series of paintings created as part of his diploma thesis. In the series Anomalia he plays with the interchange of colour and form and uses organic and flexible shapes whose boundaries consist of distinctive lines. Each image develops the subject in a different way, but the whole series then adapts to the impatient eyesight of the viewer-user, whose eyes flutter from place to place and alternately build meanings only to lose them.
Argišt Alaverdyan (*1991, Armenia) has been living in Czech Republic since 1993. He studied in the painting studio of prof. Zdeněk Beran, Vladimír Skrepl and Martin Mainer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The artistic process for him commences with a conceptual thought, but during his work he is confronted with a process which brings with it unexpected changes and accidents. Alaverdyan himself speaks of a shaping of the vision within the space of the paper or canvas, but he simultaneously accounts for the search within an authorised formal vocabulary and, perhaps surprisingly, allows for various possibilities and solutions. His works have appeared at collective exhibitions of contemporary art, such as the Přirozený svět (2016, Prague House, Brussels), Nultá Generace (2016, Jihlava), Skúter IV (2019, Trnava) Orient2 (2019, Kunsthalle Bratislava), Salm Modern1: Young Scene Challenge Part III (2019, Národní galerie Praha). He was also among the finalists of the awards Exit (2017), the Critic’s Award for young painters (2018) and Berlin’s Leinemann-Stiftung Award (2019).
Anomalia 6 is part of a fourteen-piece series of paintings created as part of his diploma thesis. In the series Anomalia he plays with the interchange of colour and form and uses organic and flexible shapes whose boundaries consist of distinctive lines. Each image develops the subject in a different way, but the whole series then adapts to the impatient eyesight of the viewer-user, whose eyes flutter from place to place and alternately build meanings only to lose them.
Argišt Alaverdyan (*1991, Armenia) has been living in Czech Republic since 1993. He studied in the painting studio of prof. Zdeněk Beran, Vladimír Skrepl and Martin Mainer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The artistic process for him commences with a conceptual thought, but during his work he is confronted with a process which brings with it unexpected changes and accidents. Alaverdyan himself speaks of a shaping of the vision within the space of the paper or canvas, but he simultaneously accounts for the search within an authorised formal vocabulary and, perhaps surprisingly, allows for various possibilities and solutions. His works have appeared at collective exhibitions of contemporary art, such as the Přirozený svět (2016, Prague House, Brussels), Nultá Generace (2016, Jihlava), Skúter IV (2019, Trnava) Orient2 (2019, Kunsthalle Bratislava), Salm Modern1: Young Scene Challenge Part III (2019, Národní galerie Praha). He was also among the finalists of the awards Exit (2017), the Critic’s Award for young painters (2018) and Berlin’s Leinemann-Stiftung Award (2019).
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