Location: Armenia
e-mail: levavagyan@gmail.com
Levon Avagyan was born in 1990 Yerevan, Armenia. His first steps in fine arts were made with the help of his grandfather - Armenian impressionist realist artist Gevorg Avagyan. Educated in Yerevan Academy of Fine Art 2007-2011 lead by Saro Galents. Studying heritage of old masters like Adolphe William Bouguereau, Paolo Veronese, Jacques-Louis David's, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and others, he found his own form of expression in fine arts inspired by surrealistic old generation artists Salvador Dali, Ives Tanguy, Max Ernst as well as modern artist Hans Ruedi Giger. Levon Avagyan is painting mostly in series.
His first serious creations were the futuristic philosophical artworks called "Bad Dreams About The Future".
After that he began a new successful series called "Waiting for..." Real objects in imaginary reality. Unexpected contacts of humans an things in culminating situations of past, present and future. Things that have earned their own soul and selfness, which has been emphasized and extraordinary evaluated by human avarice.
Now he works on the new series called "Non surprising world". In this series color is very limited and paintings done with unique yellow-bluish-purplish colors. In this series you can see surrealistic, futuristic, biomechanical and science-fiction elements.
Education:
Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts
Artist
Exhibitions:
"Door Between The Two Worlds", Albert & Tove Boyajyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia, 2010
"Art For Life", United Nations Office in Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 2012
"Nu", Artist Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 2014
"Republican exhibition", Artist Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 2015
"Ignored Reality", Galentz museum, Yerevan, Armenia, 2016
Artist Statment:
• I'm telling about my imaginations creating even paradoxical images, where the art is principal.
• From my early years in fine art I was trying to reflect surrounding me objects thoroughly. Later I begun to hear to my inner voice and started to paint improving my form of expression.
• For me the best examples are renaissance masters’ paintings. They have expressed a big love, belief and devotion. If I keep these three, maybe I can make long lasting art.
• The real art in its presence assumes unique behavior.
• No matter when was created the work of art, the charm is important that attracts regardless the time.
From my early years in fine art I was interested in creations from the period of renaissance, baroque. I've made number of copies from old masters works and studied their techniques . Later I start to feel in my own and paint improving my unique techniques. However, for me the techniques is not the main motivation. It has to be flexible and improvable, serve as an instrument.
I was always interested in how would mankind look like and what will be his lifestyle after hundreds of years, what will be the colors of their life, what problems will be finally solved and what kind of new problems will appear. Questions and answers I'm trying to symbolize by means of drawing and painting. In the new long-term series I try to show episodes from the future life where the composition is primary.
But what are shown in the pictures? The mankind has reached a new development phase and continues to develop more and more coming near to the God. No wars, no religion, no governments, no money no dresses... The other forms of life slowly start to get consciousness and in their turn try to come near to the humans. The new relationship between humans and nature appear.
I was always interested in how would mankind look like and what will be his lifestyle after hundreds of years, what will be the colors of their life, what problems will be finally solved and what kind of new problems will appear. Questions and answers I'm trying to symbolize by means of drawing and painting. In the new long-term series I try to show episodes from the future life where the composition is primary.
But what are shown in the pictures? The mankind has reached a new development phase and continues to develop more and more coming near to the God. No wars, no religion, no governments, no money...... The other forms of life slowly start to get consciousness and in their turn try to come near to the humans. The new relationship between humans and nature appear.
Reality of our days....in surrealistic manner
oil on canvas, 90x120cm, 2015
Still life of future
oil on canvas, 70x90cm, 2015
Still life of future, this is a surrealistic still life that represent the future life, future problems and life style.
oil on canvas, 50x40cm, 2016
The human being controlled and experimented by robots created by himself
oil on canvas, 60x50cm, 2015
Meeting with future generation in new invironment
oil on canvas, 120x90cm, 2016
New life forms... New relation forms... This two figures are symboles of new relationship status being in future. They live with each other their own lifes which not look like to ours.
oil on canvas, 54x70cm, 2016
My presentation of Adolphe Bouguereau's painting
oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2016
Life under the low atmospheric pressure and human adaptation to new conditions
oil on canvas, 50x40cm, 2015
Abduction for hybrid alien generation
oil on canvas, 100x100cm, 2015
...under the inspiration of Arnold Bocklin's symbolic painting
oil on canvas, 58x90cm, 2015
Here is the same situation of business rules. domination, lying, roughness, naughty, dynamic motion.......
oil on canvas, 62x49cm, 2015
child's dejavu on the new planet
This artwork is painted under the inspiration of renaissance artists. I wanted to express the painting aesthetics which I have worked out during the years. The oil on panel technique have been used to maximally achieve this aesthetics and feelings.
The young girl is a survival from cataclysms and her future is indefinite.
With this work I want to show the victory of innocent child against robotisation. The artwork is result of deep research of renaissance old masters and my own aesthetic taste. The unique painting technique is used to maximally transform the transparency of light and details.
This painting represents the new generation of mankind. The mother and her child are traveling to the new reality.
This painting is done by my unique technique mostly influenced by renaissance masters.
This series announce to the whole mankind about forthcoming disastrous events and happenings. The word “Bad” in the name is conditional as the disaster is periodically recurring and is the normal phenomenon. Each artwork is a situation form the future. For example, innocent child wins robotization, super-developed, immovable human being feeds from the environment created by himself, e.t.c.
The executing technique has been solved in a unique style comprising mostly surrealistic and partly futuristic elements. Pencil is used to stress out the volumetric-spatial environment and interrelations of shapes.
pencil on paper, 54x39cm, 2010
pencil on paper, 60x40cm, 2010
pencil on paper, 54x39cm, 2010
pencil on paper, 54x39cm, 2010
Paper, ink, brush, fountain pen. Here I am inspired with a brush single movement and plasticity of line. Here I am free and emotional. Getting free of thoughts you hear to your emotions from which derives the form. Spiritual is being embodied in the matter.
“Bath”
“Erotic Nightmare”
“Still Life”
“Still Life”
“Post-Robot”
“Meeting”
“Marriage”
“Birth”
“274mmHg”
“Abduction”
“Isle of the Dead”
“Business”
“Deja Vu”
“Surviver”
“Victory”
“The next generation”
“Victory”
“Motion”
“Desperate Madonna”
“Superhuman”
“Walls”
“Emotion no.45”
“Emotion no.46”
“Emotion no.47”
“Emotion no.48”
“Emotion no.49”
“Emotion no.51”
“Emotion no.52”
“Emotion no.53”
“Emotion no.54”
“Emotion no.55”
“Emotion no.56”
“Emotion no.57”
“Emotion no.58”
“Emotion no.59”
“Emotion no.60”
“Emotion no.50”
“Dance at the lake shore”
“Connections”
“Crusifixion”
“Dance at the lake shore”
“Emotional flares”
“Noise”
“Ritual”
“The city”
“Where are you God?”
“Memories at lake shore”
“A story”
“Harvest”
“Generations”
