Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled from the series Elementaries, 2020, mixed media, 50 × 40 cm
Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 196 × 196 cm
Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 196 × 196 cm
Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 196 × 292 cm
Paruyr Davtyan was born in 1976 in Leninakan, Armenia (now renamed to Gyumri, Armenia) in a family of artist. He graduated from ICA Moscow in 2010. He is considered as member of analytical branch of Moscow Conceptualism. However, Paruyr does not like to identify himself as representative of any particular artistic movement.
The main object of his oeuvre is art itself, which he questions, examines and redefines. His paintings refer to impressionism, mannerism and abstractionism. Nonetheless it is hard to fit them into one artistic style. On his canvases Paruyr represents hybrid and transitional forms, offering to the viewer vague yet familiar images.
Paruyr Davtyan is a member of several art groups in which he collaborates with well-known Moscow Conceptualists: Yuri Albert, Victor Skersis and Andrey Filippov. As participant of a «Cupid» group he is working on installations, in «Edelweiss» on performances (or as artists say — activity divided on actions). As a part of «Tsar Gory» group Paruyr creates paintings.
In his solo activity as well as group art practices Paruyr Davtyan plays a role of a researcher. By colliding, questioning and twisting art theories he is trying to figure out what art really is.
EDUCATION
2010
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow
Personal exhibitions
2020
How to become a white man. Part one, Lazy Mike gallery, Moscow (Russia)
2019
A garden of inner stones, Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow (Russia)
2018
Favorsky‘s dog, CCI Fabrika, Moscow (Russia)
2017
Waiting room, Osnova Gallery, Moscow (Russia)
2015
What is Art?, in frames of 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary of Contemporary Art.
NCCA, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow Museum, Darwin Museum,
Zverev center, Moscow (Russia)
2011
Look at me, White Gallery, Moscow (Russia)
2010
Zero to infinity, CCI Fabrika, Moscow (Russia)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AS A MEMBER OF ART GROUPS (CUPID, EDELWEISS, TSAR GORY)
2019
RoKoKo(b), Cupid group, CCI Fabrika, Moscow (Russia)
2018
Allegorical abstraction, Tsar Gory group, Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, Nizhny Novgorod
(Russia)
2017
Allegorical abstraction, Tsar Gory group. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (Russia)
Gang, Cupid group, Stella art foundation, Moscow (Russia)
2015
Stationmaster, Cupid group, Stella art foundation, Moscow (Russia)
Moscow art communities, Tsar Gory group, Moscow Museum, Moscow (Russia)
2014
Nasturtium, Edelweiss group, in frames of the opening of Kandinsky prize, Moscow
(Russia)
2011
Tea-rose, Edelweiss group, Art+Art Gallery, Moscow (Russia)
Victoria Regia, Edelweiss group, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (Russia)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Botanical illustration
the science of memory, Darwin Museum, Moscow (Russia)
2018
Mad House, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (Russia)
2018
My precious hair, ММОМА, Moscow (Russia)
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