Gallery One
Mika Vatinyan: Secret EquationsDecember 01, 2018 – February 24, 2019Vatinyan (b. 1972, Yerevan) has touched on this question throughout his career. Having graduated from Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography in 1994, he is known as one half of the pop-duo ‘The Deenjes’, an actor and director who has also been making considerable strides in contemporary art. Secret Equations, just like Vatinyan’s films and photographic works, acknowledges the state of uncertainty surrounding artistic practice today by asking: what is the promise of art which lures with so much expectation only to leave us puzzled and mystified after the encounter? Art, Vatinyan seems to say, is not a history lesson or an ‘update’ on current affairs. Like pages from a school work book, his paintings repeat and redo the same exercise by erasing, rethinking and failing. As a result art becomes something that ‘takes place’ not so much through creation but deconstruction, ruination and constant intellectual modifications. Despite this, traces of older models and ideas are kept and reconsidered. This process does not promise a presupposed catharsis, but offers us the prospect of new aesthetic and philosophical conditions outside of abortive formulas. The project curator is Vigen Galstyan, PhD. The exhibition has been organized with the support of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts. The project was realized under the Financial Support for Art Project program of Armenia Art Foundation. |
|