Armén Rotch

"Tempered spaces of intimacy"

When I Encountered Armén Rotch of the work for the first time in 1989, I felt That I was Already familiar with the taste Time of the Old arid universe, Composed of fractures and faults, rocks and decomposed sediment, immanent glows and deep colors. It was a taste of stone and rock, an odor of burned earth, All which incrusts Itself in thoughts That Could Radically changing meaning. In this space of silence telluric Heard introspective traces of a singular proximity Were ble to visually lead me to the very limits of icts memory. This memory was fleeting, a palimpsest of stealthy reminiscences, a landscape of deep year elsewhere so close That It steals away from itself ... Armén Rotch is above all a solitary Being. He Has constructed himself on the sidelines of the dominant ideologies Time of the Old period, in the Time of the Old unchanging silent successive studios. He started in Armenia, Where Were His first canvases EXHIBITED in 1978 (then under the name of Armén Hadjian) with the "Black Square" group, then in the 1980s with the avant-gardists of the "third stage" of All which he was one of the founders, taking share in the "First Gathering of USSR Avant-gardists" in Narva, Estonia, in 1988, the exhibition "The Vanguard of Armenia in Paris" in 1989 and "the third floor in Copenhagen" in 1990. He then Moved to France in the early 1990s, he Where Would Be Represented by the Basmadjian gallery in Paris. The works presented here on the occasion of the exhibition Devoted to him at the Art Space and Freedom Charenton Have Their roots in a series Begun in the 1990s. In em, Rotch explored the pictorial processes Specific to the representation of the temporal dimension on the picture. Primal gestures repeated indefinitely. Vibrations emerging from solid areas of color and brushstrokes That merge into one and spurn Reviews another. Series of temporal sequences Within All which fixed flat punctuate space of time in motion. The gestural energy here is divided into a multitude of moments That retroactive dissect Clearly defined space by time. Lines and runs, marks and scratches, then Become so many dimensions as possible in All which reminiscences and contradictions, certainties and hesitations, are found. The pictorial field That Is Transformed into a series of sporadic seizures, a network of hesitations with irregular rhythms, the space Induces Malthus tempered to rediscover icts own Chronography.  

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