SAMVEL - STATEMENT     (BIOGRAPHY)

My parents gave me life and freedom to know it. The outcome of that knowledge was my choice of the path of art, rich with endless interests and responsibilities. Now that path is my own unique lifestyle.

I see myself as an Armenian artist, perceiving the universal as well as the cultural significance of art, highly valuing the precious achievements of classical artists. The power of my art is hidden in the efforts to connect the discoveries of my predecessors with contemporary ideas eager to see the eternity of their birth.

The world to me is the big theater where my characters have roles to enjoy with their dramatic, mysterious, or joyful even grotesque images. Some of them display the promise of love; others awake various emotions with outlined demonstrations of their bodies. Some characters serenely swing on ropes or dance to fast rythmns. Other characters with the tension of a tight string grasp onto unstable ladders trying to maintain their balance. The rest for into passionate crowds, escaping to indistinct directions.

My theatre on canvas continues to present new, seemingly strange performances with the same enthusiasm and excitement.

His Art works are kept in more than 25 worldwide museums:
  National Art Gallery of Yerevan, Armenia.
  Modern Art Museum of Armenia.
  Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.