On May 26 – June 9, Arneli Art Gallery and Zico House proudly invite you to the opening of Sarkis Sislian ’s solo exhibition, “TRANSMUTATIONS”.
On May 26 – June 9, Arneli Art Gallery and Zico House proudly invite you to the opening of Sarkis Sislian’s solo exhibition, “TRANSMUTATIONS”.
“My work goes back and forth between geometric, structural drawings, and an almost abstract expressionist forms of portrait paintings. At the current stage of life, the latter is my predominant choice of work, due to my inability to convey any sort of personal expression except through the medium of paint and portraits. My main concern is to understand the depths of the human psyche, as well as the building blocks of the cosmos, hence, the oscillation of the extremes.”
– Sarkis Sislian
Sarkis Sislian is a multidisciplinary artist oscillating between two extremes of an arbitrary spectrum of expression. With an MA in Visual Arts from ALBA university, he has created a very subjective and unique approach to portraiture. His work goes back and forth between geometric, structural drawings, and almost abstract expressionist forms of introspection through portrait paintings.
“Analysing hope, self-improvement, self-destruction, and questioning the soundness of existence, Sarkis depicts the distorted sanity which links the rebellious inside to the nasty and the dishonorable outside. Like Emil Cioran and Francis Bacon, our artist is communicating the beauty, the immortality, and the integrity of a better-elevated world, by showing us the hideousness, the decay, and the vulnerability of the world we live in. Sislian’s faces often gaze directly into the souls of the beholders, impersonating them. He never misses a chance to speak with passersby, and to communicate through the virtue of art, that which is non-communicable in any other way. Showcasing various changes and transformations of form, color, composition, and texture, Sarkis Sislian creates bold and distinctive transmutations.”
– Ziad Dib Jreige
An exhibition curated by Manar Ali Hassan and sponsored by ALBA university and oVR Lebanon.
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