Seyran Gasparyan
A mix of ideas and emotions from which dreamlike images emerge
Whimsical scenes, some drawn from mythology, some based on Armenian village life, form the artistic terrain of Seyran Gasparyan. In his dreamlike paintings, transcendent light pierces a veil of color, and figures both of the earth and the otherworldly gradually emerge.
Born in 1956 in the Akhuryan region of Armenia, Gasparyan graduated from P. Terlemezian Art College, where he is now a member of the faculty. He is a graduate also of the Yerevan Theatrical and Art Institute, and a member of the Painters’ Union of Armenia and Momik Cultural Union.
Gasparyan’s works have been exhibited widely, in Sydney, Copenhagen, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Antwerp, Leipzig, Warsaw, Gdansk, Belgrade and Kiev.
“If you don’t have an idea, thought, feeling, you better not take brush in your hand,” Seyran Gasparyan declares. “You cannot do anything, the image will be muted, general, and nobody will find in it that without which there is no true art. But if this mud—this mix of thoughts and emotions—is present, the imaging comes by itself.”
Group Exhibitions
2006 - Exhibition of “Momik” center, Australia, Sydney
2005 - Exhibition of “Momik” center, Danmark,,Copenhagen
2004 - Exhibition of “Momik” center, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Canada
2001 - Exhibition at Painters Union dedicated to the 1700th Anniversary of Christianity in Armenia
1999 - Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA, organized by foundation ‘KAMK’
1997 - Exhibition organized by “Mkrtchian gallery” and Belgian gallery “Studio-22”, Antwerp Belgium
1997 - Exhibition of modern Armenian painters, Moscow
1992 - “Expo-92” trade exhibition, Leipzig, Germany
1991 - Exhibition of 6 Armenian painters heading “Armenian colours”
Personal Exhibitions
1999 - France,Valance
1998 - In Yerevan, at ‘NJR’ hall
1996 - In Ukraine, at the gallery “Alipi” of Kiev
1993 - In Poland,Gdansk, by the invitation of “Arka” gallery
1992 - Exhibition halls of the city of Warsaw, Poland, at the invitation of “Armes” firm
1991 - Exhibition at the hall of “Energoproject” firm, Yugoslavia, Belgrade