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“It is a scary moment when I am approaching the empty canvas. Smooth surface against which you are standing alone… Of course I more or less know what I am going to paint, but I feel that the canvas has something to hide. This fear, however, is stronger with age, because we become wiser; we grow more convinced that we know only that we know nothing. That is why a painting might be changed about twenty times…
Color is my language, and is changing due to forms. If the color is not in harmony with the form, it will remain suspended, will not breathe, will not come alive and will not live. I’m constantly speaking with colors and forms; they should be in harmony in order to respond. Each form has its own color, red, blue… Colors are arguing with each other and struggle for a place on the canvas…. The form is like an apricot, it must mature to become the right color…”
Avetik Alaverdyan
Edited by Gohar Khachatryan
Published by the Institute for Contemporary Art
2015
