Biography of Karen Petrosyan

And in fact and in content. Karen is an artist, knocked out of the general row. Firstly, he has two professions-an architect and an artist. Secondly, as a Yerevan, for more than twenty years he has been living in Montreal and annually happens for a long time in his hometown. Thirdly, the daily bread earns only and only with his creativity. The latter circumstance is completely rare, because for many emigrated artists, art from the profession passed into a hobby.

His path to art cannot be called typical. Only, perhaps, the first stage is the Terlempyan school. Then he studied at the architectural department of the Leningrad Academy of Arts. Having worked as an architect and slightly disappointed in the architects of those years, Va-Bank went and flew to Canada. Donkey in Montreal. His hard work and determination brought the desired result quite soon, and he organically fit into the artificial art.

He began with painting and Estamp in particular etching, a little later he took up sculpture. He works with a pair of galleries, from time to time makes Solo exhibitions, participates in group expositions, including Armenian ones. Several times he took part in Biennal engravings in Japan. He is a free artist. His work is acquired by collectors, orders for monumental work occur.

The art of Karen is not from the category of publicly available, it is not initially designed for the masses. And the paintings, and the sheets of the flywheel, and the sculptures require a competent viewer and, accordingly, the buyer. And all because they make you think, and to think - the prerogative of not every viewer. Catalizes the philosophical beginning of the Karenic works.

He passes through himself the phenomena of reality, but this process is not easy - a scratching soul and heart. Therefore, the feelings that Karen Petrosyan, suffered, are trying to plasticly materialize. Huge scope for the imagination of an inquisitive viewer. The tree turns Karen into a certain archetype, into a symbol of life. Karen's sculptures are more specific, although again the metaphysical meaning is full of metaphysical.

They also require decryption. In the exposition, he included several monumental works, he does them in Yerevan. There are many interpretations. The sculptures of Karen, like his other work, are quite polyurothed. And another environmental art object. A ball of thorns in which colorful silk birds are stuck - a hint of more than transparent. If this prickly metaphor in a glass cube, and it can be inserted into any public interior.

The sculptures of Karen Petrosyan, shown at the exhibition, are asking for the city’s space, to people. We willingly put monuments to historical personalities everywhere, but we avoid sculptural objects, sometimes simply decorative ones. That is why our habitat is ascetic. This is fixed by law. By the way, Karen is included in this jury. We have no. No hesitation, no breakthrough in this matter.

He is ready for this. But who will hear him?