Vav Hakobyan

Vav Hakobyan was born in 1987, in Yerevan, Armenia. Between 2000 and 2002 he took part in many sculpturing symposiums along with famous Armenian sculptors. In 2002, Hakobyan was accepted to the Panos Terlemezyan Art College, Faculty of Fine Arts in Yerevan, Armenia. In 2009 he got accepted to the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts. During his studies at the Academy, Hakobyan participated in several group exhibitions, as well as organizing a personal exhibition. He graduated from the university in 2013 with an honorary degree granted by Edward Isabekyan.

Vav Hakobyan is an artist who, since 2017, decided to completely change his work style and approach to painting in a radical move, dismissing or downright refusing any dogmas that are limiting his imaginative freedom. Hakobyan is an artist who rediscovered himself by eluding any basic concept of painting such as balanced composition, symmetry, light position, prospect, history and even balance of saturation; creating new forms and figures that don’t have any past or a future, that don’t exist in reality and have no history. These new forms, figures and compositions are discovered and seen moving on the canvas or outside of it independently, depending on moment’s influence. What’s important for the artist now is the change of forms, the transformation of figures, the unpainted spaces on the canvas, incompatible diversity, and the extremeness of contrasts...