MANVEL MATEVOSIAN
1987 Born in Sisian, Armenia
2002-2004 Sisian Art School named after Zakhar Khachatryan
2004-2011 Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture
2011-2015 Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2015-2017 Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, Master of Fine Arts
Personal exhibitions
2016-"Dialogue" Albert and Tove Boyajian Exhibition Hall
Exhibitions
2008 – “Spring Exhibition”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2009 – “Autumn Exhibition”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2009 – “Women’s Day”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2009 – “Armenian Genocide”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2010 – “Autumn Exhibition”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2010 – “My Lost Homeland”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2011 – “Women’s Day”, The Artists' Union of Armenia
2011 – “Armenian Genocide”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2011 – “Spring Exhibition”, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts
2011 – ” Youth Exhibition”, Armenian Revolutionary Federation
2013 – “Republican Youth Exhibition”, The Artist’s Union of Armenia
2013 – Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Albert and Tove Boyajian Exhibition Hall
2014- “Republican Youth Exhibition”, The Artists' Union of Armenia
2015- “A message 100 Years Later”, National Gallery of Armenia
2015- “Armenian Genocide Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Albert andTove Boyajian Exhibition Hall
2016 Exhibition of AURORA prize at Albert and Tove Boyajian Gallery Yerevan, Armenia
2018 ''Collective Exhibition'' in Artists' Union of Armenia Yerevan, Armenia
2019 ''Spring Exhibition'' in Artists' Union of Armenia Yerevan, Armenia
Rewards
One work "To the eternity" is in the National Gallery of Armenia , 2016
Author the statuette of "AURORA PRIZE FOR AWAKENING HUMANITY" 2016
Laureate of "A Message 100 Years Later", 2016
Certificate of Appreciation, The Artist's Union of Armenia, for participation in ""Republican Youth Exhibition", 2014
Certificate of Appreciation, The Artist's Union of Armenia, for participation in ""Republican Youth Exhibition", 2013
Certificate for "Daydream" sculpture, 2011
Certificate of Achievement, Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts, for participation in "My Lost Homeland" Exhibition, 2010
Hayk, 2017
Waiting, 2016
Plage, 2015
Meeting
Father and Son, 2018
Harmony
Rotation 2
Rotation
Manvel Matevosian creates a style which helps to make the motif of human figure a popular symbol. His art is influenced by primitive art, abstractionism and surrealism. He tries to combine all those genres and create something new and different. Manvel represents the human figure in a convincing illusion of real space. He wants to depict figures in such a way as to capture a palpable sense of spatial distance, so that the viewers share the artist's own sense of distance from his model, or from the encounter that inspired the work.
Philosophical questions about the human condition play a significant role in his work. There is so much movement in Manvel Matevosian’s sculptures. His ‘’signature’’ in every sculpture is dynamics. When one takes a deeper look at the sculptures, it’s impossible not to feel each and every emotion that those figures share. There is so much mystery and emotion in those eyes.
Tatev Manvelian
Art Critic
