Hagop Hagopian: The Song of Earthen Colors

Hagop Hagopian: The Song of Earthen Colors

"Hagop Hagopian: The Song of Earthen Colors" еxhibition opened at Eagle Gallery of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts on May 14 2011, featuring the works of a living legend of Armenian art Hagop Hagopian. The exhibition consists of 28 paintings and 10 sculptures representing various periods of the artist’s work. Hagopian, born in Egypt and educated in Paris, conveys profound sadness in his early paintings as a reflection of the Genocide that still haunts the artist’s soul. Already an accomplished artist in his forties, in 1962 Hagopian repatriated to Armenia. The silver-gray and terracotta color scheme of his late fall or early spring paintings emanate a mystic silence. Hagopian’s latest works are deeply philosophical and laden with symbolism. Delving deeply into his past to retrieve images of love, struggle, survival and death, he reconfigures them as mannequins, garments and tools painted against the backdrop of nature.