Gayane Khachaturyan

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Gayane Khachaturyan (1985)

Gayane Chatschaturjan (also Gayane Levon Khachaturian , Armenian Գայանե Լևոնի Խաչատրյան, born May 9, 1942 in Tbilisi ; died May 1, 2009 there ) was a Georgian-Armenian painter and graphic artist . She is best known for her oil painting in the style of magical realism .

life and work

Gayane Khachaturian was born in Tbilisi ( Georgia ) as the second child of an Armenian family. Her father Levon Khachaturov-Khachaturian, a craftsman, and her mother Hasmik Kalantarowa had come to Tbilisi from Yerevan in the 1920s .

From 1949 to 1955 she attended a girls' school in Tbilisi. She then moved to a secondary school until 1959. At the same time, she studied at the Nikoladze Art School for a short time until she fell ill. This was followed by distance learning for young working people until 1960 before she finally devoted herself to artistic work.

In 1963 Chatschaturjan met the Armenian sculptor Alexander Bajbeuk-Melikjan (1891–1966), who played a major role in her artistic development for the just twenty-year-old until his death. 1967 was a turning point in her life when she met the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov , with whom she shared a soulmate and long-term friendship. Gayane is a shaman who creates her amazing world of magic, Parajanov described the art of Khachaturian.

2010 photo exhibition in the National Library of Georgia in Tbilisi, dedicated to Gayane Khachaturyan posthumously

According to the Russian art critic Vitaly Patsyukov, Khachaturian was one of the pioneers of a new artistic awareness that placed all aspects of radical sensuality and natural freedom of plastic gestures in the focus of her artistic work. Her colorful, lively painting is described by art critics as “ magical realism ”, as found in the painting of Frieda Kahlo , René Magritte , Peter Doig and Marc Chagall . The art critic Susanne Boecker characterized her paintings as “colorful and often sad and serious scenes populated by magnificently dressed figures”. She processed parables and metaphors from her personal past, including stories that her grandmother told her.

Works by Gayane Khachaturian are in the Museum of Modern Art in Yerevan, as well as in private collections in many countries around the world. Three documentaries were made about the artist and her work. The artist did not live to see her greatest artistic success, the individual presentation of 15 works in the Armenian pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in November 2009, with which she was presented as the “Painter of Dreams”. After a long and serious illness, she died on May 1st, 2009 in Tbilisi.

Exhibitions

Gayane Khachaturian's first informal solo exhibition was held in Yerevan in 1967 at the invitation of Sergei Parajanov . Since then, her works have been presented in various exhibitions.

  • 1970: Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi, group exhibition
  • 1971: House of Painters, Yerevan, solo exhibition
  • 1972: House of Actors, Tbilisi
  • 1978: Museu Calouste Gulbenkian , Lisbon
  • 1979: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, Lyon, Marseille
  • 1979: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Beirut
  • 1987: Days of Armenian Culture , Venice
  • 1995: Contemporary Armenian Art , Paris, Metz, Poitiers, Pontivy, solo exhibition
  • 1995: The Ways of Armenia , Youth Palace, Paris
  • 1996: Armenian National Gallery, Yerevan, group exhibition of Georgian and Armenian artists
  • 2001: I am Gayane from Tiflis , Nashchokin Gallery, Moscow
  • 2009: Painting - Film , with Andrej Tarkowski and Sergej Parajanov, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  • 2009: Armenian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale
  • 2010: In Memoriam of Gayane Khachaturian , Armenian National Gallery, Yerevan

Web links

Commons : Gayane Khachaturian  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gayane Khachaturian - Artist Biography for Gayane Khachaturian. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Gayané Khachaturian, catalog, Pavilion of Republic of Armenia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia (pdf)
  3. ↑ a b c d Artsvi Bakhchinyan: Remembering Artist Gayane Khachaturian in the Decade Since Her Passing. In: The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. June 27, 2019, accessed on September 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b 53rd BIENNALE VENICE: Country pavilions. Susanne Boecker: Gayané Khachaturian - “Painter of Dreams”, Kunstforum international, volume 198/2009
personal data
SURNAME Khachaturyan, Gayane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khachaturian, Gayane; Գայանե Խաչատրյան (Armenian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2009
Place of death Tbilisi , Georgia