With his new project The Path of the Matter, Leo Leo Vardanyan seeks to reveal the \u201cbackstage\u201d or \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d aspects of the creative process and to show the audience something that usually does not appear in exhibition halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does a painting represent? Is it always only what we see on the canvas once the image is already \u201cframed\u201d? And how should we describe the state in which a work has not yet been \u201cborn\u201d \u2014 when there is something in the artist\u2019s mind that is still uncertain? What should be done with that uncertainty: with the remnants of paint left on the palette, when the artist considers the work complete and ready for exhibition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By filming the scraping of paint residues, the artist shows how he cleans the palette of traces from the work he has just completed. However, the camera\u2019s focus is not on the cleaned palette itself, but on the button-like masses that emerge through this act of \u201ccleaning.\u201d Each of these \u201cminiatures\u201d gives the impression of being an independent work of art, possessing its own nuances and structural expressiveness. Yet this impression is only apparent \u2014 an illusion. In reality, each miniature \u201cremembers\u201d the colors flowing through its veins and \u201cinvoluntarily\u201d reproduces the chromatic essence of the canvas created from the same paints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition is the coursework of the students of the ICA\u2019s ARMAN GRIGORYAN School of Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies, 2024-2026 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Curators: Antaram Azatyan, Mary Moon, Emma Muradyan, Nazeli Utujyan
Concept Development Studio\u0589 Nazaret Karoyan
Project Production and Management Studio\u0589 Carine Aroyan and Lilit Grigoryan
Exhibition Architecture Studio\u0589 Ruben Arevshatyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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