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The three-decade artistic journey of Sevada Sargsyan, Professor at Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU), is being presented in the ‘language of flowers’ these days. The painter's solo exhibition titled " Flowers That Didn't Wither " opened at ASPU on June 25.
The 12th exhibition is a reflection on the painter’s artistic career spanning over 30 years. The exhibited 30 works symbolize Sevada Sargsyan’s creative experience, feelings, and stylistic searches over the years. The paintings created with various techniques and materials, different artistic approaches, styles, and directions, are united by a common theme - flowers. The author has used various methods, searching for new formulations, solutions, and forms of emotional expression for the image of flowers.|
The exhibition was attended by the ASPU leadership, lecturers, art lovers, and students.
In her opening remarks, ASPU Rector Srbuhi Gevorgyan said that flowers have had a fundamental and important role in artists’ paintings for a long time. The ability to create flowers’ longevity, colour, and mood have become a means of self-realization and creative expression.
She then spoke about the works by world-famous artists, emphasizing that through flowers they have expressed and conveyed the content component, which as a mood, an internal spiritual resource, a simple yet luxurious phenomenon, has become a unique way of interacting with objective reality, bringing new colour and interest to everyone's life.
Srbuhi Gevorgyan, considered Sevada Sargsyan’s exhibition to be an important opportunity for a person who has found his spiritual resource in the discoveries of different moods, brushstrokes, components that excite the creator, and colours, who today shares his inner reflections, thoughts and situations with those present.
The rector also highly appreciated the sculptures created by the artist, which, she said, also express the longevity of flowers and the eternal questions of their interaction with humans.
Ara Hakobyan, Dean of the Faculty of Art Education, says Sevada Sargsyan's works are full of deep meaning and insight: the subtlety of the light colours and the presence of the hidden secret light confirm how restrained the author and his paintings are.
“Sevada Sargsyan’s art is a vivid expression of the creation, meaning, and multifaceted nature of life: each flower, in its shape, type, and colour, has something to say, which is skillfully presented. "As a painter, I want to admit honestly that it is difficult to reflect on flowers. These works are the result of long-term reflection," Ara Hakobyan said and added that in addition to being a teacher and scientist, Sevada Sargsyan is also one of the gifted artists of modern Armenian fine arts.
Sevada Sargsyan's unique art was also highly appreciated by Mikak Melkonyan, Associate Professor at the Chair of Fine Arts and Professor Artashes Keshishan, who specifically hailed the choice, form and combination of the sculpture details, figurative approach and composition of paintings.
Painter and educator Sevada Sargsyan notes that every artist selects their best works when preparing for a solo exhibition. In this case, his approach was different. In addition to the artistic function, the exhibition also has a methodological component; he has presented the image of a flower, its perception, the eternity of art, the permanence of memory, feelings, and colours, the formulations and changes it has undergone over time.
Sevada Sargsyan says some of the works presented have been archived, while others are included in private collections. Seeing them in one piece for the first time and inspired by what he had seen, he chose the title “Flowers That Didn't Wither” for his exhibition.
The painter confesses he has come to the conclusion that he must continue painting flowers; he has not yet painted the flower that he likes the most. "I wish I could continue to search for the eternal flower that is eternal in nature, rather than in paintings. Maybe I will be able find it," Sevada Sargsyan said in conclusion.
