"Fragments"

                                                                                                                                          If someone asks a man:
                                                                                                                                    “Who are you?” he would
                                                                                                                                              automatically answer:
                                                                                                                                         “I am a doctor, a type-setter,
                                                                                                                                          a clerk etc”. Man is an
                                                                                                                         abstraction alienated from his real                                                                                                                                      nature.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Erich Fromm

 

In this painting series I have tried to free human figures from any social role, status, past and future, having left only their basic human image. The purpose of the fragmentation of the image, edited sights, blow-ups and broken contours of the computer processed photographs, is to create an intermediate situation between the figurative and abstraction, to convey uncertainty and alienation. The fragmentation carries another important meaning; it makes the viewer to appropriate the blank spaces around the image and to try to recreate an integral figure of human being, that is, to be engaged in a process of identification that runs counter to alienation.

Garik Yengibaryan
2009 “Fragments” solo exhibition, Armenian Center For Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
2009 “Public Space” project, stencil graffiti series together with Edgar Amroyan, Yerevan
2008 “UND PLATFORM” POLLY-GALLERY,Germany, Karlsruhe 
2008 “Resistance” a group exhibition, Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational complex, Fine Art School Gallery, Yerevan
2007 “A Work Behind the Wall” group exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Yerevan 
2007 “not STANDARD” group exhibition-action, Yeghishe Charents Home-Museum, Yerevan
2005 “It`s Me” International Youth Film-Festival, Yerevan

* since 2007 founding-member of the “ART-Laboratory” NGO