Solo exhibition by Samuel Saghatelian

The absurd and grotesque work of Samuel Saghatelian was a huge success at
the 49th Venice Biennale in Italy in 2001. His works are also a part of the
permanent collection of Museum of Contemporary Art of Armenia. His unique
conceptual perception of the world expressed in various media, made him one
of the most prominent artists of The Armenian Center for Contemporary
Experimental Art in Yerevan. Samuel Saghatelian has had group and solo
exhibitions in Armenia, Russia, Europe and South America. In 2002 he was
awarded a Fellowship for ArtsLink/Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA and
had exhibitions in Vermont Studio Center and in New York.

Following is what Peter Frank had to say about Saghatelian's work;
"the revealed picture is not the usual reaffirmation of what we know and
what we want from the world, but a revelation of what we want to avoid
knowing and want to deny the world contains. No, Saghatelian's revelations
are not uniformly horrible; indeed, they are rarely repulsive ­ he may
insist we know humankind at its worst, but he brings us to this knowledge
through rituals of mourning and comedies of manners and errors. He would
have us cry rather than cry out, laugh nervously rather than cringe. However
sardonic his humor, Sagatelian still relies on wit or at least on the humor
of absurdity ­ and if our dreams are anything, they are absurd to the point
of hilarious. Sagatelian is not dreaming for us, he's dreaming with us."