Teni Vardanyan
Strange whispers from the dark cellars of our psyches, leading to unconscious depths
Strange and haunting fairy tale objects—humans, birds—appear in Teni Vardanyan’s Symbolist paintings, in colors that range from gentle Aegean pastels to sharp rusts and browns. Her art, the critic Vardan Azatyan believes, reflects Jung’s view that “symbols are the unity of transparent images, consciousness, and hidden and unexplainable meaning, leading to the unconscious depth of human psychology.”
Vardanyan herself says “I wouldn’t leave home, if I had my way. I would stay in this room and paint my signs, my flourishes, my thoughts, and those faces that come to sink deeply in one’s soul, and want to become your alter ego, your voice and your eyesight.”
Teni Vardanyan, born in Yerevan in 1958, is a graduate of P. Terlemezian College of Painting and the Yerevan Theatrical and Art Institute. Her paintings have been featured in numerous international exhibitions.
“Teni’s works,” writes Azatyan, “are echoing to strange and unintelligible whispers from the dark cellars of our psyches. These are works which emerge from the depth of the unconscious and from the firm clarity of that integrity which tries to save us from the danger of dissolution and disintegration.”
Group Exhibitions
2006 - Gabone Art Gallery, Yerevan
2000 - Exhibition in London
Personal Exhibitions
2006 - Exhibition in Gabone Art Gallery, Yerevan2004 - Exhibition in USA, (‘Red Gallery’, ‘Harvest Gallery’)
2002 - Exhibition in Yerevan
1998 - Exhibition in Yerevan