About Artist
Was born in Yerevan.
Graduated with honor from the Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Culture of Armenian State Pedagogical University, receiving the qualification of a pedagogue of fine arts. She studied Fashion design at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia (master’s degree).
In 2016, she founded the “ArtAm Gallery” platform at Zvartnots Airport, where through she presents contemporary Armenian artists.
Exhibitions
- 2023 Spiral Hertz of the Spring, with artist Vahagn Hayrapetyan, The Loft, Yerevan, Armenia
- 2022 Artists Union of Armenia, “The Invisible Visible”
- 2019 Naregatsi Art Institute, “Your name is a Woman” in the cities of Yerevan and Shushi
- 2017 UN Office, Yerevan
- 2017 “Armenian Mythology” at the Yerevan History Museum
- 2018 Moldova, Chisinau
- 2018 Lithuania, Veysay
- 2017 Serbia, Pazarevats
- 2017 Kiev, National Gallery of Ukraine
Armine Tumanyan has combined art, culture, and community development, creating a world where colors become stories and canvases become a philosophy of life. Her works revive the harmony of the Armenian natural world and the heritage of the past, mixing with the currents of contemporary art.
In addition to being a painter, Armine is also a leader of a cultural movement where l she believes and advocates the development of arts in the rigions of her country through helping to develop art education. She is encouraging the new generation to rediscover their roots and express themselves through art by participating in different art symposiums in Armenia and abroad, participating in different competitions for younger and older generations of artists.
She founded the ArtAm Gallery at Zvartnots Airport, which has become a unique platform for showing the artworks of contemporary Armenian artists, introducing visitors to the Armenian spiritual and artistic heritage from the moment they leave the airport.
The international symposium “Tavush through the Eyes of the World” initiated by her, has turned into a cultural dialogue, where artists from different countries discover Armenia in a new way, telling its breath and soul through their canvases.
Armine Tumanyan not only paints,
but also builds, creating bridges between art, community, and history. Her art has a silent yet powerful voice, reminding us that the past can be reborn in the brushstrokes of the present.
What are feelings, emotions and many other invisible phenomena? Do they have any image equivalent that can be expressed and given any shape? As an applied artist, I have tried to paint feelings on silk, but then it was not possible to materialize certain concepts due to the limitations of the batik technique. So I was attracted by the freedom of working with canvas and the idea of creating a dimensional painting. After figurative art, I discovered for myself the non-objective abstract genre of painting, which gave me unlimited freedom and the opportunity to create, and here the idea and desire to depict the “invisible” revived. Canvas gives you the opportunity to experiment with different techniques and in my new works, you will see the experience of using paper and other materials. I am always interested in exploring, experimenting and finding. And in these works, the course of those searches can be seen. Types of emotions and sounds, that is what became the material of inspiration for this exhibition.
Armine Tumanyan
Testimonials
The element of Armine Tumanyan is the constant search and not staying within the single painting principle. The figurative, realistic paintings of the previous years are followed by non-existent, abstract images.
In the foreground of Armine Tumanyan’s abstract paintings lays the artistry of colours. Even if the entire canvas is a “theatre of one colour”, she plays an unacknowledged episode in your world and dictates some kind of lacking isolation, saving you from being stuck in time.
…Художник-«синестет» не только видит невидимое, не только созерцает потаенное, он отчетливо слышит и звуки цвета – от мажорных аккордов красно-оранжево-синего и до адажио светло-зеленого с сумеречно-голубым… Continue reading
To obtain volume on a flat surface while creating paintings on canvas, I worked with old newspapers, following the principle of processing and recycling, or, better to say, upcycling. This term is used when items that are only slightly modified, get new functionality. Unlike recycling, which is widely used, the concept of upcycling is still little known to the average consumer. Often referred to as the highest form of recycling, it supposes the processing of secondary raw materials which results in producing things that are worth much more than the cost of the original materials. Believing in new concept of reusing old things and giving them new life, I’ve decided to use them in creating new series of paintings dedicated to German physicist and the founder of experimental acoustics Ernst Chladni. His invention regarding sound images inspired me to create 12 canvases, all based on Chladni figures. It was such an exciting experience to depict the voice playing a huge role in our lives, as we perceive more than the third of the information around us through hearing. From the point of view of physics, the normal perception of sound by a person ranges from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz frequency. Sounds with a higher frequency are called ultrasound, and sounds below it are called infrasound. Through my paintings you will discover 12 Hz sounds, available to human perception.
