Poor elloyan

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Armen Eloyan (* 1966 in Yerevan , Armenia ) is an artist of Armenian origin. He lives and works in Zurich .

biography

Armen Eloyan grew up in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic . His mother was a doctor, his father an engineer.

Because of his dyslexia , Eloyan had problems at school. He was already interested in painting in his youth. His interests in art were supported by his parents. After graduating from school, at the age of 17 he worked in the animation studio of the Armenian filmmaker Robert Sahakyants at "Armenfilm". He drew the background and interior for two of Sahakyant's animated films .

At the age of 18 he was called up for military service at the time of the military conflict between the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijani SSR . Eloyan refused military service and therefore had to do two years of alternative service in Siberia . In the 1990s he emigrated to the Netherlands via Prague .

After first exhibitions, Eloyan got a studio for three months in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in 2003 , where he painted and lived. He created watercolors and oil paintings . From 2003 to 2005 he graduated from the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.

Eloyan's work became known to an international audience through exhibitions in the Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art in London in 2007, in the Kunsthalle Bern and in the Kunsthalle St.Gallen in 2008. Since then, his works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia.

Eloyan is a second marriage and has six children. His twin daughters Ani and Nare Eloyan (* 1988) from their first marriage are also artists.

Collections (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2000: Armen Eloyan . Coopmanshus Museum, Franeker
  • 2000: Recent Works, Kunstenaarsinitiatief MXO, The Hague
  • 2004: The More I remember. Fries Museum, Leeuwarden ; De Praktijk, Amsterdam
  • 2005: Infected Eye. Curator Joep van Liefland, Autocenter, Berlin
  • 2006: Center Culturel Suisse, Paris
  • 2006: Two feet in One Shoe. Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
  • 2008: Local Gothic and Culture . Kunsthalle St. Gallen
  • 2009: Armen Eloyan: Paintings . Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
  • 2009: Armen Eloyan: bees left it or bears do it. Bob van Orsouw Gallery, Zurich
  • 2012: Day by Day Part II. Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
  • 2003: Welcome home where we are. GEM Museum voor actuelle kunst, The Hague
  • 2016: Armen Eloyan: Garden. Timothy Taylor, London
  • 2018: Armen Eloyan. Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
  • 2019: Armen Eloyan. SALTS, Birsfelden

Group exhibitions

  • 2003: To Avoid the Void . Artwalk, Amsterdam
  • 2004: Open Studios . Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten , Amsterdam
  • 2005: Territoria kunst uit Nederland in en rond Prato. Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Luigi Pecci, Italy
  • 2006: Villa Jelmini in Kunsthalle Bern
  • 2007: On the Marriage Broker Joke. Office Baroque, Antwerp
  • 2008: Involved. Curator: Philippe Pirotte, ShanghART Gallery & H Space, Shanghai
  • 2009: Ventriloquist. Curator: Emma Dexter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
  • 2010: Animism. Kunsthalle Bern
  • 2010: Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe. Curator: Tuymans, Groeninge Museum , Bruges
  • 2011: A lot of ado about everything. Baroque in contemporary art. House for Art Uri, Altdorf
  • 2011: Cas de figures. La Station, Nice
  • 2011: Where Cuckoos Nest in Autumn. SAL Projects, Basel
  • 2013: De belles sculptures contemporaines. Frac de Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
  • 2014: Old tin cutlery before the invitation of the fork. Breese Little, London
  • 2014: Vernacular Alchemists. Passarelle Centra d'Art contemporain, Brest
  • 2014: The Pink Spy. M HKA, Antwerp
  • 2014: two times. With Josef Scharl, curator: Harald Spengler, Kunstparterre, Munich
  • 2015: Substance. Timothy Taylor, London and Carlos Place, London

literature

  • Ziba Ardalan, Philippe Pirotte: Armen Eloyan: Two feet in one shoe. Parasol unit / JRP Ringier, Zurich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-905770-91-9 .
  • Goedele Bartholomeeusen: Armen Eloyan: Day by Day Part II. Tim van Laere Gallery, 2012.
  • Emma Dexter, Martin Herbert: Armen Eloyan: Bookstore cure. Timothy Taylor gallery, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9553102-5-6 .
  • Lee Beard, Rebecca Morrill (Eds.): The Twenty-First Century Art Book. Phaidon Press, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-7148-6739-7 , p. 78.
  • Armen Eloyan: Independent Relations between Comic and Animated Cartoons. onestar press, 2014, OCLC 1152157729 .
  • Laurence Gateau, Anne Bonnin: Armen Eloyan . Hannibal Publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-94-92677-89-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bidoun: Armen Eloyan: Anarmeniacs. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ What the Butler Saw. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
  3. ^ Three exhibitions Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Retrieved August 17, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Eloyan, poor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan , Armenia