Evaluator Narek Aghajanyan (artist)

Since 2014 I have been granted political asylum in Sweden. As a result of that I experience, that for Swedish art lovers and artistic circles are quite important to know artist\'s background, the level of establishment in the art world rather than art piece itself. For beeing comperhencive in that way one needs to be communicative, to representing himself his/her artistic work. And therefor one needs to possess the language first of all and moreover, show a lust of literal presentations of onself and the work.
Experiencing all those aspects of complications, which are unfortunetly integral part of now days art life, I did start working on a new series of paintings that deals a lot with the material itself, using burlap, paper, pearl glue, gesso, coal, earth pigment powder.
The operating process with those materials, and labor as a meditative occurrence is meant to give a feeling of building up a painting which leads to the visualization of the existence of the material. Thus the paintings should be called \"Sack cloth, paper, pearl glue, gesso, pigment\" etc.
This is also a protest against such \"complicated, philosophical\" names and texts which quite often replace the art piece itself, when it is supposed to be mainly visual. The topicality of a work of art can shift the emphasis from the sphere of visual art to that of language. As a matter of fact we are witnessing quite often such examples in galleries showing mostly contemporary art. But to my mind, those written presentations and “explanations”, intended to back up the art pieces, become the subject by their own. Therefore, I prefer to give weight to the nature of the material as a symptom of starting point for new imagination. Instead of burdening the spectator with additional contexts, deliberately it will emancipates him/her and lets him/her to think about their own ideas and feelings.