Ashot Avagyan

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Ashot Avagjan in his studio in Sissian

Aschot Avagjan ( Armenian Աշոտ Ավագյան , English transcription Ashot Avagyan ; born May 20, 1958 in Sissian , Sjunik , Armenia ) is an Armenian painter and action artist.

life and work

Awagjan graduated from the Panos Terlemesjan State College of Fine Arts in Yerevan in 1981 and then taught painting at the Children's Art School in Sissian. Taking into account the heritage of the various cultural regions of his homeland, he is constantly looking for new editions of the Weltanschauung. In 1988 he gave up painting and returned to art in 1997. Since then, he has organized exhibitions of his works at the Bronze Age burial grounds in Armenia every year. He believes his works are experiments with psychological and ideological revelations of cultural rock art and the megalithic era. Since 1999 he has been organizing performances on the Neolithic cultural monuments in the Sissian area. In 2002 he staged his own funeral so convincingly that he even received telegrams of condolence from Yerevan. Since 2010 he has been in charge of the historic Bronze Age burial ground Zorakarer in Sissian and worked with the astrophysicist Mihran Vardanyan on the "Stars & Stones 2010" expedition in conjunction with the Royal Geographical Society of Oxford University . He is the author of two video films entitled Bravers' Spirit (1997) and Ideal Fix (1998), which were shown at two international film festivals.

One man shows

  • 2000: "The Seven Papers of Demiurge", Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2004: “Magic Double Circle”, Gevorgyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2008: “Memories from Past Lives”, Gevorgyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2001: “Four Armenian Artists”, Toronto , Canada ; Copenhagen , Denmark
  • 2002: “Show of avant-garde art”, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2003: “Transcendent”, Albert and Tove Boyajyan Gallery, Yerevwan, Armenia; Dublin , Ireland ; New York , USA; Montreal , Canada
  • 2004: 4th Gyumri International Biennale, Gyumri , Armenia
  • 2004: Art Expo "ART KAUKASU", Tbilisi , Georgia
  • 2005: Art Expo "ART CAUCASUS", Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 2006: “The Colors of Armenia”, Saint Petersburg , Russia
  • 2006: “Meeting with Saryan”, National Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2007: “Colors of Armeni”, Aleppo , Syria ; Damascus , Syria
  • 2007: “Vom Ararat Fuji”, National Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2007: “Contemporary Artists from Armenia”, Pasadena , USA
  • 2007: “Armenian Landscape in Contemporary Art”, Zurich , Switzerland
  • 2008: 6th Gyumri International Biennale, Gyumri, Armenia
  • 2008: “Recovering Wounds”, Spitak , Armenia; Vanadzor , Armenia
  • 2008: “Generation Freedom: Armenia's New Vanguard”, InterArt Gallery, New York , USA

literature

  • Torsten Flaig: Armenia, 2018, ISBN 9-783770-178605

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Avagyan, Ashot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ավագյան, Աշոտ (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian painter and action artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Sissian , Syunik , Armenia