Description

LOT 52 Vachagan Narazyan. A dream on a summer night. Oil.

36 x 50 cm, painted in 2023.

The artist created a unique painting masterpiece literally on the Artifacts of War. But first, a bit of history – it all started when our heroic soldiers collected from the very heat of battle the lids of the transport and launch containers of the Ukrainian S-300 air defense systems, which are knocked out during the launch of a missile, and these lids became an unusual basis for real paintings. By the way, all the artifacts were directly used by our artillery soldiers during combat operations to protect the Ukrainian sky.
All funds raised through the sale of works during the exhibition and auction will go to support the military, who are regularly supported by the Cossack Drive charity foundation.

Vachagan Narazyan’s art captures our hearts by creating his own mysterious, intriguing, yet classic world on canvas. His paintings are incredibly beautiful, bizarre and surreal, with a provocative symbolic touch. They are full of symbolic coding, where reality is barely visible in the form of a deeply personal experience of spiritual perception. Using tempera together with oil, the artist depicts a complex artistic surface full of vibrating hues – a surface that reacts to any movement in the artist’s thoughts or dreams. His method is both simple and complex. This is a method that has absorbed the experience of many generations of artists from Dürer and Bosch. The works of this artist are among the most prominent works of the nonconformist movement of the former Soviet Union. His themes are very diverse, often juxtaposing images of the “Old World” with elements of the “New Age”.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Vachagan Narazyan has been based in Kharkiv, a city that has been suffering from brutal bombardment and rocket attacks by Russian troops for over a year.