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"I believe that all art is playing seriously."
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Armen Agop"I dont work, I either play or pray."
Armen Agop is an Egyptian artist. He is known for his contemplative sculptures and paintings derived from his exploration of ancient spiritual heritages. He engages meditative practices in his process, prioritizing inwardness over monumentality. Soberness, slowness and renouncement of demonstrative abilities are features that characterize his ascetic approach. His work has been associated with min
"I believe that all art is playing seriously."
"Each work may be considered as a contemporary microcosm, unnamed, self-referential, but rich of past and present identity, still tied to previous work but announcing the forthcoming one, which enables the viewer to participate in the discovery of his inner energy, sharing in the identity."
"Defying the ego, Armen Agop releases his works into the world detaching himself from them. For him, the man, its all about the process, and for the stone, its about endurance. Perhaps, his works can be regarded as contemporary conduits for the Ka, rare portals of communication between the incorporeal and the terrestrial realm. Created in time, they are meant to resist time, vibrating within their own frequencies as an undying ode to life."
"It was in the desert, where there seems to be nothing, thats where I learned to see."
"An artwork is a container of a human experience. A poem in a closed book is contained energy, ready for whoever reads it, wanting to be charged. Art is able to energize a part of us that is usually ignored. In my experience, the artworks that touch us deeply and manage to connect with us are artworks that have a rich internal world and vital inner connectivity with themselves. The hard part is the ability to detect it because it’s not about the obvious elements in an artwork; most of the time, it is about what is beneath that which is evident. It’s the unseen, the invisible. I believe that the appearance of the artwork is a big obstacle. We call it visual art but it’s all about the invisible."
"These sculptures are not altars but mirrors of the viewers soul."