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Henry Elibekyan The painting has its own internal regularities and system; it consists of distinctive channels through which the ‘subconscious feeling’ flows. Feelings are transformed into various formations, where constant ‘metamorphoses’ take place. ‘Colorful phenomena,’ competing with one another, constantly dissolve and give rise to new chromatic spaces. The ‘colorful spectacle’—the necessity of the painting—creates […]

“Spit is my challenge.” “Spit for the Taste of Society” ACTION Henry Elibekyan The result of the epitaph as a sign of the torments and sufferings that are imprinted on the artist’s face during the process of creation. Signs of epitaph as a consequence of the collision of various hidden, esoteric impulses The clown’s mask […]

Henry Elibekyan “Gesture” – a body movement that expresses inner feelings and deep structures; a set of physiological reactions that symbolically express “restrained conflict.” “Gesture” is a unique “text”. “Gesture” is a sign, a symbol that unites the different layers of reality into a single whole, creating its own multilayered structure. The nature and mechanisms […]

My childhood and adolescence were spent in Tiflis, at the “Hayartan.” I was born in January 1936 into the family of a theatre professional. At first, my father was the director and theatrical designer of the Armenian Theatre for Young Audiences, and after the theatre fire, he became the director of the Armenian Dramatic Theatre. […]

Lilit Sargsyan On May 17, 2002, at the Russian Museum of Art (Professor Abrahamyan’s collection), the Yerevan intellectual community once again met with Henry Elibekyan. The project he presented was dedicated to theatre—what the artist himself calls his “illness,” his unwavering love, to which he returns again and again, always embodying theatricality in different ways […]

Lilit Sargsyan Recently, our compatriot, the renowned artist and vivid personality, Armenian Sixties avant-gardist Henry Elibekyan made a “pilgrimage” from Moscow to Yerevan. He was full of determination, armed with inexhaustible creative, physical, and spiritual energy, in order to realize yet another project. Elibekyan not only presented his statement (action), but also—despite the dull mood […]

Seyranush Manukyan An unusual exhibition by the artist Henry Elibekyan—recognized both in Armenia and beyond its borders—opened at the Actors’ House. This exhibition is the artist’s response to our tragic time, a call to move from unbelief to faith, a special dedication to the victims of the “regime.” The artist finds new means, forms, and […]

Ruben Anghaladyan …He is full of freshness and temperament, both in early adolescence and in his youth, when he headlong burst into art (not entered it, not leapt into it, but truly burst in), just as he did into life. Many thought him mischievous, mad, yet he—thoughtful and ardent—greedily discovers life and himself in this […]

Vardan Jaloyan At the beginning of the 21st century, a growing interest in modernism can be observed in global art. People speak of many “modernisms,” viewing Western High Modernism as one of them. The modernism of Soviet Armenia was one of those “minor modernisms” that reached its fullest expressive form in the late 1960s and […]

Lilit Sargsyan In the panorama of contemporary art in Armenia and the post-socialist cultural space, Henri Elibekian is such a well-known and significant artist that today there is already a felt need to present his work within the broader context of contemporary art. In the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, he emerged immediately and indisputably […]