"Nothing is more fantastic and madder than real life, and that the poet confines himself to collect a confused reflection, like in a badly frosted mirror."
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Night Tales (1816)
The Gallery is pleased to present Pierre Aghaikian's first solo exhibition. This young artist studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Paris’s Fine Art School) immerses us in a rather wobbly and dark universe. Hybrid beings and truncated bodies stand out in apocalyptic scenes worthy of the greatest Hollywood fictions. The artist's dantesque universe is on the verge of implosion. Throning and wearing an imperial crown, the artist represents himself in "Selfportrait" (2014) as a demiurge monarch, reigning over creatures of an indefinite identity (monstrous beings, characters with sketched or narrow faces…) Pierre Aghaikian's works are nurtured by references to cinema, music and fashion and arouse both desire and fear that his spontaneous and urgent gesture only reinforces.
Pierre AGHAIKIAN was born in 1994 in Lyon. He lives and works in Paris.
