In Armen Eloyan's impasto paintings a wonderful pathos, brutality, sensuality and a sense of the grotesque all coexist in some abandoned dystopian environment.
Ellyan exceeds to create a mood, a state of mind that echoes throughout the book.
Playful, unruly and quietly unsettling, Armen Eloyan’s paintings draw us into a world where cartoon figures and everyday objects acquire unexpected emotional force. Published by Antwerp’s Tim Van Laere Gallery in 2012, Day by Day Part II introduces the Armenian-born artist’s richly worked paintings through colour illustrations, a text by Goedele Bartholomeeusen and an interview by Tim Van Laere.
Humour rubs shoulders with unease, while familiar imagery becomes strange beneath vigorous layers of paint.
For readers discovering Eloyan, students of contemporary art or anyone intrigued by the meeting of popular culture and serious painting, this compact volume offers a rewarding encounter with an individual imagination—and an invitation, especially welcome in today’s image-saturated world, to pause and look beneath the surface.
