Argišt Alaverdyan (b. 1991, Armenia) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2011-2017). Lives and works in Prague.
Several interesting moments appear in the Entity Series. In relation to painting, the artist touches upon the classical genre of portraiture, and in relation to digital technologies, he thematizes the various applications that deal with the processing of human faces. These allow us to play all sorts of games, for example to distort our looks as in a crooked mirror or to grow old instantly, and their plethora corresponds to the formal variety of his paintings, executed in a smooth, impersonal brushwork. On the other hand, there are facial-recognition programs that can keep one under constant scrutiny, and this context is less funny. The relevance and topicality of Alaverdyan’s paintings is not in the contemporary issues, but precisely in the fact that they also contain this critical and disturbing aspect. (Marcel Fišer, 2022)

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Argišt Alaverdyan, Jozef Mrva: Spambot Fiction / Text by Peter Sit / 25/01/23–15/03/23 More

Argišt Alaverdyan / viennacontemporary 2020 / 24/09/20–27/09/20 / More

Sebastian Burger, Argišt Alaverdyan, Filip Dvořák, Richard Nikl, Adam Vačkář: Line of Best Fit / Curated by Domenico de Chirico / 14/07/20–26/08/20 / More

Argišt Alaverdyan: Role-playing 2 / Text by Marek Pokorný / 10/06/20–08/07/20 / More

CV

solo exhibitions
2023
Heavy Cloud, Pitevna, MUNI, Brno, CZ
Spambot Fiction, (w Jozef Mrva), stone projects, Prague, CZ
2022
Id-Entity, GAVU Cheb, CZ
2021
Multitasking 2, Sokolská, Ostrava, CZ
2020
Multitasking, Broumov Monastery, CZ
Role-playing 2, stone projects, Prague, CZ
2019
Salm Modern, (w Jozef Jankovič), National Gallery Prague, CZ
Role-playing, Holešovická šachta, Prague, CZ
Simulation, Garage Gallery, Prague, CZ
2018
Opaque Dimension, (w Jozef Mrva), The East Slovak Gallery, Košice, SK
Ohyb, Měsíc ve dne, České Budějovice, CZ

PRESS

Argišt Alaverdyan / Portfolio / Art Antiques 5/23/ More

Přemýšlet v obrazech je jiné, než přemýšlet v pojmech / Jiří Ptáček / More