Salon Art Shopping

Edition Octobre 2011
The Noahs Ark Art Gallery was founded in 1996, by Mosses Herkelian (Doctorate in Fine Arts) who is an art critic, a gallerist, and a journalist. The gallery focuses on Post Soviet Painting, and has a group of artists from Moscow and Yerevan creating art exclusively for Noahs Ark art gallery. In addition we show several artists from other countries, we like exhibiting the elements we look for in artists, including education, technique, and passion about their subject. The Post-Soviet conception is neither the continuation nor the rejection of Soviet Realism, but rather the rejection of the tyranny of the mind and soul. During the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the artist all of a sudden found himself in a void. His much longed for, dreamt about and yet %u201Ctaboo%u201D freedom, was all of a sudden handed back to him, without any compromises. As much as artificial and unrealistic was Sovietism, its downfall was even more illogical and unbelievable. This is why the Soviet Artists truly felt the absurdity of their situation. A context in which not only could they really create and express themselves, but also entwined at the same time in the unsolved issues of mankind which can only be resolved through one%u2019s dreams and imaginations. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of Surrealist artists emerged who spontaneously represented absurd situations. Our represented artists in Salon Art Shopping Vahram, Ruben Abovian and David each of these renewed artists has his own particular individuality and creativity style, but are united to each other under a common dominator, which is to create freely in the Absurd Surrealist atmosphere.