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GAYAN\u00c9 KHACHATURIAN
P A I N T E R O F D R E A M S Edward Balassanian
Of 8 million Armenians around the world 3 million live in the present-day Armenia. Armenian Diaspora is culturally very rich and diverse. Artists such as painter Arshile Gorky (USA), seascape painter Hovhannes Ayvazovski (Russia), cinematographer Sergey Parajanov (Georgia) are among many prominent names of the international art scene that are from Armenian Diaspora. Gayan\u00e9 Khachaturian, albeit less known, rightfully belongs to this esteemed group of artists. She was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and lives and works there to date. Gayan\u00e9 Khachaturian\u2019s works are distinctly allegoric. They are inundated with colorful and rich collection of symbols referring to unending parables and metaphors from her personal past and her collective memories of the Armenian community of her native town. On an occasion she has said that many of \u201cthe stories\u201d on her canvases are influenced by the tales her grandmother told her in her childhood. Her colorful canvases are reminiscent of such world masters as Marc Chagall, Arshile Gorky and even Hieronymus Bosch of a much earlier era. Chagall spoke of the lives, trepidations, joys and grief of his people in the \u201cOld Country\u201d in a representational manner. Arshile Gorky expressed the same in the abstract\u2014witness, his \u201cHow My Mother\u2019s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life…\u201d Gayan\u00e9 is as story-teller as Chagall. However she is much more personal, delving into deep layers of her own psyche and inner feelings. She is reservedly abstract in the use of colors and forms as Arshile Gorky is, and as intriguing in concept and composition as Hieronymus Bosch. Like Bosch, she often \u201cpacks\u201d her canvases with personages turning them into \u201cstatic\u201d scenes\u2014snapshots\u2014each telling a very personal story, expressing a feeling from deep inside.
Her works are \u201ctheatrical\u201d. Each canvas seems like a frozen mis-en-sc\u00e8ne of a play\u2014a theater scene. Her portraits resemble personages, dressed up and made up, ready to step on the stage. This attribute seems to be under distinct influence of her friend and contemporary, cinematographer and accomplished painter Sergey Parajanov. Gayan\u00e9 Khachaturian has been selected to represent Armenia because she is one of the important links on the \u201cchain\u201d stretching from the depths of history\u2014Armenian illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages\u2014to the present day. Her colors, composition concepts and the \u201cstory-telling\u201d are all in concert with the roots and branches of the same tree. While Armenian illuminated manuscripts depict the stories of the Gospel, Gayan\u00e9 tells stories of mostly personal and delicate emotions, and often communal issues and concerns.
It is noteworthy that selection of Gayan\u00e9 Khachaturian has independently coincided with the 53rd Venice Biennale Director and Curator Daniel Birnbaum\u2019s intent to \u201cexplore strings of inspiration that involve several generations and to display the roots as well as the branches that grow into a future not yet defined\u201d. There is a wealth of Armenian artists\u2014Arshile Gorky, Yervand Kotchar, Martiros Sarian, Minas Avetissian and others\u2014who tie Armenia to its past and form the source and the basis whence contemporary Armenian art feeds and on which it lays foundation.
Gayan\u00e9 Khachaturian is one of the few artists still living, who belongs to and represents this invaluable \u201cprocession\u201d of treasures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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