Saghatelian Samuel
Сагателян Самуель
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Samuel Saghatelian
Samuel Saghatelian was born in 1958 in Armenia. He graduated from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute and pursued a career in architecture until in 1988 he started his journey as an artist. His unique conceptual perception of the world expressed in various media made him one of the most prominent artists of The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan. Samuel Saghatelian has had group and solo exhibitions in Armenia, Russia, Europe and South America. His works are part of the permanent collection of Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art. His works are part of the permanent collection of Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art.
In 2002 he was awarded a Fellowship for ArtsLink/Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA and had exhibitions in Vermont Studio Center and New York. His most recent exhibitions include a solo show at Harvest Gallery in Glendale and a group exhibitions at Kirckoff Gallery at UCLA, Articultural Gallery in Santa Monica Blvd.
…boisterous yet tender Grotesques… …the revealed picture is not the usual reaffirmation of what we know and what we want from the world, but a revelation of what we want to avoid knowing and want to deny the world contains. No, Saghatelian’s revelations are not uniformly horrible; indeed, they are rarely repulsive – he may insist we know humankind at its worst, but he brings us to this knowledge through rituals of mourning and comedies of manners and errors. He would have us cry rather than cry out, laugh nervously rather than cringe. However sardonic his humor, Sagatelian still relies on wit or at least on the humor of absurdity – and if our dreams are anything, they are absurd to the point of hilarious. Sagatelian is not dreaming for us, he’s dreaming with us.
- Peter Frank