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Armen Eloyan
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The dystopic world of artist Armen Eloyan
"The paintings of Armen Eloyan convey an air of immediate familiarity. We recognize familiar figures: old acquaintances like Pinocchio, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Sponge Bob, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Krazy Kat, Pluto, and Goofy—an anthropomorphic community of mainly American animated cartoon and comic-strip characters. They are childhood figures, but what a peculiar childhood!" — Anne Bonnin The expressive paintings of the Armenian artist Armen Eloyan (b. 1966) are as cute and seductive as they are repulsive. According to Eloyan, a good painting is like a good joke: the pieces must fit together. Noted for his large-scale, irreverent paintings of anthropomorphic animals and figures, he depicts absurd narratives in his darkly comic work. Though Eloyan doesn't define himself as a writer, his paintings tell sardonic, sometimes erotic stories. Inspired partly by cartoons and street art, as well as the European masters, his works are heavily impastoed with colorful paints and thick black outlines, adroitly balancing dark humor with a searing existential vision of a dystopic world. With texts by art critic Anne Bonnin and Laurence Gateau (director, Frac des Pays de la Loire). In collaboration with the Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp.
Extent: 208 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: color
Publication date: 2019-06-26
Size: 24.0 x 17.0 cm
ISBN: 9789492677891
About the Authors
Laurence Gateau is director of the FRAC des Pays de la Loire. Anne Bonnin is an art critic and exhibition curator. In 2009, she organised the group shows Pragmatismus & Romantismus at the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris) and Sauvagerie domestique at the École municipale des beaux-arts/galerie Édouard-Manet (Gennevilliers). She was the curator for the Ateliers de Rennes - biennale d'art contemporain in 2012. She has also taught at the École Supérieure d'Art de Clermont Communauté, at the Ecole supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg.
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