Khachatur White. ABSTRACTION. Painting, graphics, sculpture, porcelain

The new, 28th exhibition season in Korea is opened by Khachatur Bely’s exhibition “Abstraction”. The exhibition will feature paintings, graphics, sculpture and porcelain.

Fragment of an article by Nikolai Blagodatov “Joys of Diversity”

Petersburg artist Khachatur Bely began to take part in exhibitions of fine art in our city since the mid-eighties. Over these nearly forty years, it would seem that considerable experience has been accumulated in the perception of his artistic worldview. And yet, it’s not possible to tie such creativity to a certain direction of our art… Of course, the isolation of creativity is not uncommon in art, and the fact that Khachatur Bely is “inconvenient” for classification is not an axiological factor, but a psychological one: the person craves changes and is constantly experimenting….

… However, most of Khachatur’s painting is a search for fresh expressiveness. He himself divides it into three periods. Conventionally, they can be described as “surreal landscape”, a combination of figurative art and abstraction and expressive realism (of the last cycles, the “orchestra” is especially interesting). Of course, they flow and overlap, without clear boundaries.

Currently, as he admitted, there is a craving for abstraction. The graphic reigns melodious, melodious, line. He uses his graphics especially witty in porcelain painting, where the drawing fits into limited and sometimes intricate forms. The personal exhibition of Khachatur porcelain turned out to be an event in this area, where many of our famous painters are trying their hand at the present time.

… He has works that are joyful and sad, lyrical and monumental, philosophical and playful, realistic and conceptual, traditional and modernist, etc., etc. Where is the unity of style, the notorious recognition? She, probably, can be found by a meticulous researcher at the graphological level. But for the art lover, unity is evident in the author’s desire for diversity, interest in life in its variability, dynamics and the transfer of this dynamics not only with an energetic wave of the brush, but also with the discovery of a new means of expression.

August 18, 2018, St. Petersburg

Khachatur White

Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, ceramist (porcelain painting).
Born in 1958 in the year in Oktemberyan (now Armavir), Armenia.
The first teacher is Hamlet Udumyan 1972–1976.
He studied under Armen Atayan (student of M. Saryan) and Heinrich Nerkararyan, 1978.
Since 1982, lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Since 1984, participant in underground exhibitions TEII
(Partnership of Experimental Fine Arts).
Since 1992, a participant in Russian and international exhibitions.
Since 1997, a member of the St. Petersburg Foundation "Free Culture".
Since 2000, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Main meetings:

State Russian Museum
Russian Ethnographic Museum
State Museum of Theater and Music, St. Petersburg
Museum of Nonconformism, Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg
Museum of Modern Art. Diaghilev, St. Petersburg
Private collections in Russia and foreign countries

In May 2010, the “Monument of Love” to Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam was installed on the territory of St. Petersburg State University.

In September 2015, Mandelstam was established in Amsterdam on the Street of Hope.

“Monument of love” to Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam.

Sculptors - Hanneke de Munk (Holland), Khachatur Bely (St. Petersburg).

Since July 2015, he has been working under a contract at the St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain Factory, he paints porcelain.