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Armen Gevorkian

Armen Gevorkian was born in 1958 Yerevan, Armenia. In 1980, Graduated from Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute named after Kh. Abovian (Fine Arts department). In 1992, he became Member of the Artists' Union of Armenia. Since 1980, a constant participant of Republican and International group exhibitions and Art Fairs. What attracts one’s attention at first sight is that the paintings of Armen Gevorkian reflect an individuality that is impossible to attain. It seems that everything has already been done, seen and experienced in figurative art and it becomes difficult to avoid the fate of becoming some appendage of famous analogues. But Armen is an artist who could never accept the role of being a satellite, which we feel from both his unusual, exceptional handwriting and irrational way of thinking. Devoid of daylight in his boxlike studio, completely isolated from outward life, Armen travels with his personages, moving from one painting to another. He changes the surroundings and situations, never leaving this rather strange, nonexistent, organic and native state, and never wishing to emigrate. The neatness and order he has established here are worthy of respect; there is no spontaneity, nothing from Bohemian chaos or artistic disorder, but at the same time not a bit of mathematical coldness. Armen is one of those artists who breaks the mold of stereotypical, multicolored, Armenian painting. However, in spite of restrained coloring, his paintings do not contain tragic or dramatic elements – they are calm and contemplative. His works are displayed at Modern Art Museum of Armenia, Bel-Air Fine Art Gallery (Genève, Switzerland), Arame Art Gallery (Yerevan, Armenia), Vinizki Gallery (Munich, Germany), Europe Gallery (Palo Alto, California, USA) and in private collections in USA, Germany, Switzerland, Lebanon, France, Turkey.