Harout Hakobyan
Time-bending visions, uniting ancient and contemporary worlds, while angels smile
The metaphysical art of Harout Hakobyan spans periods of time from pre-Renaissance (shown in his sketches after Leonardo da Vinci) to the 21st century. Through his visions, contemporary news-style images are set against ancient structures, while angels, ignoring time, bring their beneficent charms. In these paintings, we discover the eternal and mystical in our midst.
Hakobyan, art editor of the children’s magazine Tsitsernak (Swallow), was born in Leninakan, Armenia, in 1962. A winner of the Diploma Award at P. Terlemezian Fine Arts College, Department of Painting, he went on to internship in the museums and galleries of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and at the Academy of Arts of Vilnius, Lithuania, where he studied lithography and etching. In 1991, he graduated from Yerevan Theatrical and Art Institute, Department of Graphic Arts.
He has had personal exhibitions in Paris, Marseilles, Yerevan and Beirut, and has taken part in group exhibitions in major cities of the United States, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Iran and Lebanon. He is a member of the Cultural Union Momik and the union of Artists of Armenia.
Personal Exhibitions
2009 - Haigazian University Art Center, Beirut
2006 - Albert and Tove Boyajian Picture Gallery, Yerevan
1993 - House of Armenian Culture, Marseilles
1993 - ‘Le cent Gallery’ Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2004 - International ‘Art-Expo’, New York
2003 - Albert and Tove Boyajian Picture Gallery, Yerevan
2002 - ‘Contemporary Art of Armenia’, Museum of Modern Art, Tehran
2001 - ‘Aglal’ Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
1998 - ‘On the Threshold of the XXI Century’, the Union of Artists of
Armenia, Yerevan
1996 - ‘66’ Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995 -Trade-exhibition at ‘Solec’ Gallery Warsaw, Poland
1992 - Exhibition of Armenian artists, Moscow
1992 - Anniversary exhibition of the Union of Armenian Young Artists
1992 - Exhibition of the Cultural Union ‘Momik’
1991 - Exhibition of graduates of the Institute of Fine Arts, the Union of Artists of Armenia, Yerevan
1982 - Center of Aesthetic Education of Armenia
Membership
From 1998 - Union of Artists of Armenia
From 1992 - Cultural Union ‘Momik’