Pilgrim, who returned home
02 December 2006
work here: http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showpost.php?p=2373171&postcount=1118
In Yerevan, the gallery "Gabon", which is located near Cascade, these days an exhibition of works Kadzhika Hakobyan. Fate decreed that the first solo exhibition was posthumous. To meet with the audience Kadzhik have not had time, but left a message - their works. A very special, not like anyone attitude captured on these pages. They say he's been looking for technique, tried different materials and eventually found a small piece of the desired ordinary blades, replacing him brushes and pencils.
Most of his works created K. Hakobyan, protsarapyvaya razor blade and clearing a layer of oil paint on paper. This method creates a unique surface structure, gives the picture a kind of fragility, a sense that sometimes occurs when you look at the pieces of thin glass. One color permeates other sharp edges, hard, as if sliced contour outlines the shape, smooth flat background animated little mixed accents of another color.
Speaking of color: We Kadzhika he is subject to a general problem so that you do not notice it, unless you tune in to draw attention to it. Rather then it makes sense to speak not about color, but the color scheme, the decision in a silver-blue palette with strictly metered by the presence of warm colors. In fact, coloring the last series of the artist - a real gem, a great creative success.
That gives the flavor compositions represented as nobility, creating an atmosphere that the deformation of the shape to which the artist uses readily perceived the natural and organic. Kadzhik Hakobyan was born in 1950. Echmiadzin, was a fundamental art education, graduating from Art College. F. Terlemezyan, and then, in 1980 - the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute, where he studied in the studio of E. Isabekyan. Search of his own artistic language, and most importantly - your own theme, lasted a long time.
Period realistic painting abstract art fad changed, and only in the last years of his life, according to Mr. Igityan, "Kadzhik conviction and finally returned to figurative painting."
Most of the exhibited works just refer to this last period of the life and work - they are dated 1998-1999.
Abstract works are also included in the exposition, but located in another room, on the ground floor, and whether because of its lack of windows, whether because of their own compositional features of the impression of heavy, dark and somewhat congested. In contrast to the abstract works of figurative works that Mr. Igityan aptly named "novels", full of light and air.
The characters in these pictures live everyday and yet mysterious life, their simple way of life creates a host of issues. They are not beautiful, but not ugly, big-headed, disproportionate male and female, children and adults often depicted completely naked, but for some reason they do not cause nudes bodily sensations, paradoxically, they seem to be "clothed their nakedness." Man - this how it shows the artist, released his home life in endless cares, the burden of which he is literally on his shoulders. Sitting on each other figures have become one of the favorite motifs Hakobyan, but the metaphor is not as clear as it might seem at first sight. According to the artist's son Hakob (young painter, who is completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts), here rendered memories Kadzhika grandmother since childhood deeply entrenched in his subconscious. Like many of the descendants of the survivors of the 1915 genocide, an artist like myself emotionally experience what happened to test his ancestors. Men and women carrying their children on their shoulders, saving close - only part facing the eye of paintings.
But semantics works Hakobyan much broader than simply the projection of the unconscious, which would have severe feelings for them or standing. The basis of most works of repetitive composition solution, the general structure of the construction: the picture is divided horizontally into three broad bands - the shore, a broad band of water surface, and almost indistinguishable from her sky. The action takes place on the shore, and this inevitably causes the characters to have a narrow space in front. For the artist, apparently, a necessary combination of three essential elements - earth, water and air, and their ownership of human existence. Characters live unpretentious life, divorced from any temporary realities. It is impossible to determine where and when the story is played out in the cultural context of what is happening is inscribed, but probably not worth trying. Artist if purposely leaves no signs of the times. Being, so to speak, in its pure form, devoid of any grid coordinates, does have a vector - works on many characters move somewhere, or at least getting ready to leave. Sometimes the whole family moved with their belongings and livestock.
However, this feeling is quite deceptive - is moving along the same coast amid constant water surface. A close examination will show that the movement in general, or just aimlessly goal so far, that the artist gives up its image, not even a hint in the form of "light at the end of the tunnel" or reward for perseverance.
However, sometimes the artist depicts a group of people on vacation, playing music, masteryaschih toy boats, playing with each other or with some exotic creatures like a huge toad, rhinoceros, the tortoise. But looking at them for some reason you realize that this is just a rest on the way. All "short stories" directly or indirectly, is a story about the time rootlessness of human existence, the never-ending quest to reach the "promised land", his true home.
The persistent image of a sea landscape inevitably makes you want to somehow interpret the reality that is hidden behind the image. Immensity, eternity water space, beckoning distance, for which, apparently, is a cherished goal of pilgrims. No wonder the boat with a raised or deflated sails is also essential "character" almost all stories. In general, "sail" - one of the traditional motifs in art. I recall by association stretching into the misty depths string of men and women in the famous painting by Watteau A. "Sailing to the Island of Cythera." It is a feeling of mild sadness, as usually happens when parting. The same feeling cause novel Kadzhika Hakobyan told the artist, "sailed" over the horizon, perhaps, to reassure those who are on the way.
Zara Ter-Hakobyan
(I am writing for a newspaper under my birth name)
http://www.golos.am/index.php?option...1225&Itemid=53
work here: http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showpost.php?p=2373171&postcount=1118
In Yerevan, the gallery "Gabon", which is located near Cascade, these days an exhibition of works Kadzhika Hakobyan. Fate decreed that the first solo exhibition was posthumous. To meet with the audience Kadzhik have not had time, but left a message - their works. A very special, not like anyone attitude captured on these pages. They say he's been looking for technique, tried different materials and eventually found a small piece of the desired ordinary blades, replacing him brushes and pencils.
Most of his works created K. Hakobyan, protsarapyvaya razor blade and clearing a layer of oil paint on paper. This method creates a unique surface structure, gives the picture a kind of fragility, a sense that sometimes occurs when you look at the pieces of thin glass. One color permeates other sharp edges, hard, as if sliced contour outlines the shape, smooth flat background animated little mixed accents of another color.
Speaking of color: We Kadzhika he is subject to a general problem so that you do not notice it, unless you tune in to draw attention to it. Rather then it makes sense to speak not about color, but the color scheme, the decision in a silver-blue palette with strictly metered by the presence of warm colors. In fact, coloring the last series of the artist - a real gem, a great creative success.
That gives the flavor compositions represented as nobility, creating an atmosphere that the deformation of the shape to which the artist uses readily perceived the natural and organic. Kadzhik Hakobyan was born in 1950. Echmiadzin, was a fundamental art education, graduating from Art College. F. Terlemezyan, and then, in 1980 - the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute, where he studied in the studio of E. Isabekyan. Search of his own artistic language, and most importantly - your own theme, lasted a long time.
Period realistic painting abstract art fad changed, and only in the last years of his life, according to Mr. Igityan, "Kadzhik conviction and finally returned to figurative painting."
Most of the exhibited works just refer to this last period of the life and work - they are dated 1998-1999.
Abstract works are also included in the exposition, but located in another room, on the ground floor, and whether because of its lack of windows, whether because of their own compositional features of the impression of heavy, dark and somewhat congested. In contrast to the abstract works of figurative works that Mr. Igityan aptly named "novels", full of light and air.
The characters in these pictures live everyday and yet mysterious life, their simple way of life creates a host of issues. They are not beautiful, but not ugly, big-headed, disproportionate male and female, children and adults often depicted completely naked, but for some reason they do not cause nudes bodily sensations, paradoxically, they seem to be "clothed their nakedness." Man - this how it shows the artist, released his home life in endless cares, the burden of which he is literally on his shoulders. Sitting on each other figures have become one of the favorite motifs Hakobyan, but the metaphor is not as clear as it might seem at first sight. According to the artist's son Hakob (young painter, who is completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts), here rendered memories Kadzhika grandmother since childhood deeply entrenched in his subconscious. Like many of the descendants of the survivors of the 1915 genocide, an artist like myself emotionally experience what happened to test his ancestors. Men and women carrying their children on their shoulders, saving close - only part facing the eye of paintings.
But semantics works Hakobyan much broader than simply the projection of the unconscious, which would have severe feelings for them or standing. The basis of most works of repetitive composition solution, the general structure of the construction: the picture is divided horizontally into three broad bands - the shore, a broad band of water surface, and almost indistinguishable from her sky. The action takes place on the shore, and this inevitably causes the characters to have a narrow space in front. For the artist, apparently, a necessary combination of three essential elements - earth, water and air, and their ownership of human existence. Characters live unpretentious life, divorced from any temporary realities. It is impossible to determine where and when the story is played out in the cultural context of what is happening is inscribed, but probably not worth trying. Artist if purposely leaves no signs of the times. Being, so to speak, in its pure form, devoid of any grid coordinates, does have a vector - works on many characters move somewhere, or at least getting ready to leave. Sometimes the whole family moved with their belongings and livestock.
However, this feeling is quite deceptive - is moving along the same coast amid constant water surface. A close examination will show that the movement in general, or just aimlessly goal so far, that the artist gives up its image, not even a hint in the form of "light at the end of the tunnel" or reward for perseverance.
However, sometimes the artist depicts a group of people on vacation, playing music, masteryaschih toy boats, playing with each other or with some exotic creatures like a huge toad, rhinoceros, the tortoise. But looking at them for some reason you realize that this is just a rest on the way. All "short stories" directly or indirectly, is a story about the time rootlessness of human existence, the never-ending quest to reach the "promised land", his true home.
The persistent image of a sea landscape inevitably makes you want to somehow interpret the reality that is hidden behind the image. Immensity, eternity water space, beckoning distance, for which, apparently, is a cherished goal of pilgrims. No wonder the boat with a raised or deflated sails is also essential "character" almost all stories. In general, "sail" - one of the traditional motifs in art. I recall by association stretching into the misty depths string of men and women in the famous painting by Watteau A. "Sailing to the Island of Cythera." It is a feeling of mild sadness, as usually happens when parting. The same feeling cause novel Kadzhika Hakobyan told the artist, "sailed" over the horizon, perhaps, to reassure those who are on the way.
Zara Ter-Hakobyan
(I am writing for a newspaper under my birth name)
http://www.golos.am/index.php?option...1225&Itemid=53
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