Exciting news: Whoppah has acquired Design Market in France
Have it delivered hassle-freeBuyer protectionAll items curated by WhoppahDownload the Whoppah app here
Item not as advertised, money backAll items are curated and 100% authenticHave it delivered hassle-free or pick it up yourselfShop only from Trusted Sellers
Business seller
Product description
Painting from Armen Eloyan's early period from 1994 titled "Biology Classroom No. 3."
Painting is registered under number 94-141. Framed and signed.
Eloyan, Armen Yerevan , 1966
Biography:
Armen Eloyan Armen Eloyan is self-taught as an artist and began his artistic career in Armenia. In 1997 he included himself in the Netherlands. In 2004-2005, he is a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Eloyan's work is even seductive if daunting. He is a passionate painter; from thick layers of paint loom landscapes, crude, mysterious texts and masochistic figures and martyrs. The protagonists in his work make a grotesque impression - a procession of cruel and extremist individuals passing by the canvases, various members of the Ku Klux Klan to Nazis and fanatical religious followers. Historical figures and events are interspersed each time with personal histories. Because of his cultural background, Armen Eloyan has experienced oppression firsthand. 'Armen Eloyan made historical paintings in the past with subjects related to Nazism, racism and extremism. These subjects are closely related to Eloyan himself. As a refugee Armenian, he has a history in which oppression and atrocities were the order of the day. The representations in his paintings and drawings in the past showed a terrifying world rendered in an attractive style. A contradiction that is quite confrontational for the viewer, as it attracts on the one hand and repels significantly'. This confrontation and contradiction still occurs in his most recent drawings. The images with attractive blondes are "disturbed" by vulgar of beautiful texts and cries. In the books of collages that Eloyan recently created, this process of subverting the arbitrary propositional images from reality is underway. Eloyan used photographs from clothing catalogs of companies such as Otto's Neckermann. Detonating texts and slogans appear on or near the photos. Reality is not what it seems, people are not what they seem, no matter how much we would like them to be. Although at first glance Eloyans impression is provocative, on closer inspection it possesses a great sensibility. Armen Eloyan nowhere flirts with his unsympathetic characters; rather, he drives a centuries-old human culture dominated by oppression, power and subjugation into his work. With the absurd world Armen Eloyan conjures up, he confronts the viewer with the sadness of the human condition, the banality of power and the transience of existence. Armen Eloyan often juxtaposes man's destructive presence with images of nature; after all, nature does not care about human existence. Armen Eloyan himself clarifies his meaning as follows: "I paint aggression and pain because I am fascinated by the way when people affirm their existence precisely through cruelty. The image of nature also plays an important role in my work. The earth and forests are silent and eternal. People can tear that down with their atrocities and rebuild it. After that, it is silent again". Despite the grim nature of his work, he states, "My work has a positive undercurrent. Out of all that violence, it clarifies who and what we are; it clarifies our existence. In that sense, my work is religious".
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsMulti ColorMaterialOtherNumber of items1Height51 cmWidth61 cm