Free Youth Painting

Arman Grigoryan 16 April 1960 , Yerevan - Armenia Solo exhibitions. 1997 Bad Religion, Charly Khachatrian Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia 1991 LCENT Gallery, Paris, France Group exhibitions 2010 "Body: New Figurative Art in Armenia".Painter's House, Yerevan , Armenia. 2008 "Diagnoz-interdiagnoz", (ACSL) group show, ". Painter's House, Yerevan. 2008 Gyumri VI International Biannual, Gyumri ,Armenia 2007 "Progressive Nostalgia", Contemporary Art of the Former USSR , "On Geekdom" Beraki Museum, Athens, Greece 2007 "Armenie contemporaine: une actualite de l'art video", Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art. 2007 "d'Armenie", Center for Contemporary Art Quimper. 2007 "Armenian contemporary video art", Toulouse. Espace Croix Baragnon 2007 "Glorious futilities", Saint Etienne Metropole Museum of Modern Art 2006 "Armenian international Style" Akanat art gallery Yerevan Armenia Catalogues "Body: New Figurative Art in Armenia".Painter's House, Yerevan , Armenia 2010 «(NON)Conform, Russian and Soviet Art», The Ludwig collection 1958-1995. 2007 "Progressive Nostalgia", Contemporary Art of the Former USSR , "On Geekdom" Beraki Museum, Athens, Greece 2007 "d'Armenie", Center for Contemporary Art Quimper,2007 «L'art contemporain en Arménie», galerie Bel Air Fine Art, Genève 2005 «On the edge», Likovni salon Celje, Ljubljana, 2004 «Adieu Parajanov -Contemporary Art in Armenia», Springerin, Vienna, 2003 ArmanGrigoryan is the originator of Armenian pop art that began the alternative art movement in the perestroika years in the Soviet Union. To show his contempt for the Soviet government and to reveal its hypocrisy, Grigoryan developed a punk/pop aesthetic that ridicules the social realism that was the only style accepted by the state. His work was exemplary of cultural changes in the "Velvet Revolution". Grigoryan's bright colors and powerful images mimic the advertising world of the West, that seduced with promises of new consumer goods and a better life, but remained in the realm of fantasy after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His canvases still retain an urgency of rebellion, evidence of his ability to wrestle, through painting, with the concerns of everyday life. Kathryn Hixson