About
Guevorg is a Franco-Armenian visual artist who lives and works in France.
For him, the process of creation is an encounter between knowledge controlled by the conscious and chance directed by the subconscious. His work is idealistic,
carrying a message through whatever medium that is used. However, the most important thing for him is that his work touches our senses and provokes our emotions through our associative imagination. His work as an artist consists of sublimating reality and materializing it through shapes and colours into an unreal substance.
The real, existing world around us, and the unreal, imaginary world. Imaginary but, despite appearances, not fortuitous.
Linking these two parallel worlds by using analogies.
INSPIRATION
Passionate about the wonders of nature, he draws his inspiration from
the underwater world, fascinated by its rich colour palette and mind-blowing shapes.
Through his works, he tries to capture an otherworldly moment from
an imaginary world full of unreal creatures hat metamorphose and interact with each other without destroying one another.
PAINTINGS
Guevorg's abstract paintings invite us to lose ourselves in a
supernatural world. His paintings offer a glimpse of
strange worlds, both distant and close to us, both imaginary and real, in between the microscopic and macroscopic realms.
The paintings are in relief with vibrant colours on a dark background and contrast matte and glossy textures.
SCULPTURES
In his sculpture, as in his painting, Guevorg's creations captivate the associative imagination. His colourful abstract canvases and molten plastic sculptures have an evocative power.
Free to interpretation, they offer a glimpse of the marine life that populates the abyss,
extraterrestrial life from beyond, or a cluster of supernovas.
WATERCOLOURS
Water, also known as "aqua", is the source of life.
It is a vital material for all forms of life, and Guevorg likes working with it because water is a living substance which allows him
to create light and transparent images of biomorphic shapes with soft contours and a fantastic mixture of colours.
GRAPHICS
Guevorg's graphic works represent a mystical and imaginary world between surrealism and abstraction, in which a mixture of geometric shapes harmonize with biomorphic forms.
Unrealistic creatures whose composition are an unexpected mixture of organic and mineral elements that together create a dynamic. The singular yet collective character of the works dra ws us into another world: the imaginary world of the artist.
INFLUENCES
Guevorg is passionate about art in general, starting from primitive prehistoric art to contemporary art.
It is influenced by the large meters of:
* Italian renaissance: Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
* Dutch school: Jérôme Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, Rembrandt
* 19th and 20th century art: Édouard Manet, Joan Miró, Vassily Kandinsky, Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, Arman, Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
* art contemporain : Damien Hirst, Tony Cragg, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Kaws, Richard Texier
Biography
Guevorg Antonyan was born in 1973.
After graduating from the Armenian School of Fine Arts in 1990, he continued his studies at the State University of Arts in his homeland.
In the following years, he received his education at the Studio Berçot - school of fashion in Paris.
In 2005, he became an accessories designer for luxury brands in the French capital.
In 2011, he left the fashion industry and moved to Strasbourg to focus on his passion - art.
He experimented with various mediums in his artistic pursuits,
but the pivotal moment came in 2022 when he discovered the techniques and materials
that today define his artistic identity.
Artistic studies
1985-1990: School of Fine Arts, Armenia
1991-1996: State University of Arts, Armenia
2003-2005: Private fashion school, Studio Berçot, Paris, France.
Exhibitions
2024 - Exhibition - des Haras, Strasbourg, France
2023 - Exhibition - Lexus Golf Cup, Strasbourg, France
2023 - Contemporary art fairs art3f. Strasbourg, France
Since 2022 - Collaboration and Exhibition- Lexus, Strasbourg, France
2016 - Group exhibition at Zénith Europe, Strasbourg, France
2016 - International Prize Leonardo Da Vinci - prize "The Universal Artist", Florence, Italy
SCULPTURES assemblage 2010 - 2012
For the creation of his sculptures he used the assemblage technique. Unexpected mixtures, both in terms of periods, styles, and in terms of techniques and materials used, through metamorphoses of shapes and the assembly of objects, through associative symbolism and diversion of objects, he tries to introduce a plural look at existence and civilization.
Oil paintings on canvas created in 1999
WATERCOLORS created in 1996
