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Hanbell Gallery

Between Realities

Artist: Sargis Hovhannisyan

Based in Gyumri, Armenia

 "The connection between art and reality has always been one of the most widely discussed topics in history. The fact is that the work of art seems to have a somewhat illusory image, but it can merge into a person's lifestyle and even become the basis of an ontology. Art is not a direct copy of reality, but by involving the artist's imagination, it contributes to the formation of a vision of modern thinking. Thanks to imagination, new perceptions of the artist-researcher-society connection in today's commercialized reality provide an opportunity to confront art and the socio-politicized modern world through different artistic linguistic thinking. Through art, it is possible to create such a dialogue between the art-observer that the observer can turn into a listener and HEAR what he has seen. The listener-observer, immersing in the work of art, becomes its continuation, breaking away from the context of the real world, thus trying to approach the state of ignoring the real world accepted by many, to break away from it for a moment in order to be able to create a new reality in the trivial reality through his independent creative act. Abstract art allows you to understand the different layers of your own senses, to realize who you are, what you really want, and thus to convey the aesthetics of the ideological basis of my art, which allows the confrontation of art-man-nature-reality categories, where the bearer of time is the MAN, in life sentences that are understandable to him, which are built after the rules of the logic of words, where the concept of intensive knowledge arises. At the core of abstract art is the visualization of the inner depth of the formulations of words, symbolizing reality outside of reality, and the art process presented in this project is an uninterrupted path aimed at collecting new words in order to fix a truly visible reality for the broad strata of society." Sargis Hovhannisyan

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About the 
Artist

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Artist: Sargis Hovhannisyan

Based in Gyumri, Armenia

Instagram: @sargishovhannisyan.art

Sargis Hovhannisyan was born in Gyumri on October 28, 1983. ​​Hovhannisyan creates a unique bridge between the past and present through his works. His works reflect the perceptions of Soviet times which clashes with present commercialized society’s consuming attitude and gives birth to images which as he states “make art unique filter or public testing, through which it is made possible to discover the alternative voices of creative practices formed during authoritarian and totalitarian systems”. Sargis Hovhannisyan uses different types of techniques and media in his works, starting from traditional landscape painting and graphics means to photo, video and performance.​​

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