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Biographical notes
Tigran Malkhasyan
Tigran Malkhasyan was born in 1964. Since the age of twelve he was fascinated by drawing, and subsequently by painting; since 1986 he has been active in the artistic life of St Petersburg and Moscow.
Gradually enlarging the area of his creative vision and with it an expanding sphere of knowledge, Tigran subjected to his own specific creative needs a huge amount of visual means, and thereby formed his own unique language of image processing.
Tigran himself explains the mechanism of the action of his works on the spectator as follows: "After looking at a certain image, familiar in the majority of the cases to any spectator, I process it in my mind rather in the way that a cryptographer unlocks a code with the help of a cipher book. The apparent similarity of the old code with the new lets the spectator observe a familiarity with the image, and so I can draw him into the picture, but not in the way he perhaps intends, in reverse as it were. In other words, I am laying down a path of perception."
His long-standing enthusiasm for technical disciplines coupled with his knowledge of the world might be said to have allowed Tigran to start his career on a higher sphere than if he had stayed within the academic world of the history of art and its pictorial dictates.
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