Tigran Sahakyan

Tigran Sahakyan was born in 1975, Yerevan, Armenia. He studied at the State Art School of the Southwest district of Yerevan between 1988-1992 and after at the Ceramics Department of Panos Terlemezian State College of Fine Arts between 1992-1994. After his graduation, he studied Graphics at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts between 1994-2000.

 

Sahakyan, whose works have been exhibited in many group exhibitions since 1995, opened his first personal exhibition titled “Creative-Action” in Yerevan Modern Art Museum in 2012. The artist held his second solo exhibition titled “Contrastive Textures” at Kulturwerk T66 in Freiburg, Germany in 2017.

 

Tigran Sahakyan is one of those artists who is in no hurry at all to win over an audience. On the contrary, it seems that his art has turned its back on the viewer of today. In the works of Sahakyan, the painting surface turns from the conversation around the object or space into a unique field, where the final image condenses in the final result of this process. The traditional/classic "paint" and "brush" are removed from usage. The material is changed; metal, fabric and mortar are introduced. The intervention of the hand changes the entire content of creation. The materials being used emphasize their former raw material characteristics. This process gradually permeates both the surface and the painting's exterior and content structure. The works are viewed as image-targets, where the dominant element fills the center of the painting. The color scale swings from rich and sharp hues to the monochrome.

 

With its development of form and pictorial transformations, the art of Tigran Sahakyan has achieved a recognizable hallmark. These structures of color and form bring forth a definite aesthetic viewpoint that does not rest within the confines of simple formulas. The outline of Tigran Sahakyan's art is gradually taking shape; something which is borne out by the vitality it exudes.