Garik Karapetyan

Opening of solo exhibition

Garik Karapetyan and Max Kaminski at Centre Culturel Sahak- Mesrop in Garik's solo exhibition,

Marseille, France

Centre Culturel Sahak-Mesrop, Solo Exhibition Oct 2005,
Marseille ,France

Solo exhibition, opening

Solo exhibition, Marseille, France, 2004

Solo exhibition, Marseille, France, 2004

2005 Centre Culturel Sahak- Mesrop, Marseille, France

2005 Academia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia

2005 Gallery l'AUTRE COTE , Marseille, France

2004 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL USA

2001 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL USA

2000 Ministiry of Culture of Armenia ,Fund for Culture, Yerevan

2000 Modern Art State Museum of Armenia,Yerevan

2000 United Nations Organization of Yerevan, Armenia

1999 Armenian Artists' Union, Yerevan

1997 Yerevan State Academy of Art,Yerevan

1996 Morfinservise's Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia

1995 Maritime Bank's Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia

1995 Armenian Embassy in Moscow, Russia

1994 Tumanian State Museum, Yerevan, Armenia

1992 Modern Art Museum of Yerevan,Armenia

1991 Ministry of Education of Armenia,Yerevan

1983 Journalists' Union Exhibition Hall, Yerevan,Armenia

Born in Armenia, in a small city Talin, in 1973

1980-1985 he studied in Talin`s School of Art

1990-1996 received degree in Fine Art from the

State Academy of Art in Armenia

He lives and works in ARMENIA


Collections

“Fund for Culture” at the Ministry of Culture of Armenia

Private Collection of Hasmik and Vahagn Hovnanian, USA

The other private collections in Armenia, Russia, French,

Germany, Holland, Sweden, USA and etc.

I feel very close to art's free process. It's an act in
which I spontaneously give to canvas a primeval sensuality
coming from spiritual infinity.I create my pictures without
preliminary thoughts.However when I start acting, I have a
specific direction, which develops subconsciously.I try to
create a spiritual reality on a surface.

It's impotant for me to liberate sensuality from memory
images inevitably coming with each attempt to project
subconsciously originated conceptions.I give freedom to a
color and a shape so they be able to develop as spiritual
elements for plastic reproduction of " an internal
necessity", becoming inexpressible intuition, an
uexplainable content, and feelings proceeding from essence,
to be more exact, becoming a thing that expresses a soul's
nature.

I set free my actions from direct dependence of nature's and
art's conventionality. There's another image not associated
with a picture-sensual,which probably comes from deeper
subconscious layers, without spontaneously perceived
associations of external world.
It is necessary for an artist to concentrate not only eyes
but also to focus in his/her soul and be able to put
external impressions and perceptions through a soul's prism
in order to involve the soul as a decisive force while
creating works of art.

A picture has its own life. I try to reveal it. Each
spectator creates his/her individual connection with a
picture's energy.
Art cannot save a human being.However, it's possible to
create a dialog by means of art. That dialog will give a
human being an opportunity to expose himself/herself and
become as close to high spiritual values as possible.

Garik Karapetyan