Gari Goryany

"Signs and symbols rule the world, not laws and people," Confucius once said. This phrase of the Chinese philosopher can serve as an epigraph to all the work of Garik Goryany. His research in religious and philosophical postmodern strata is based on graphic allegory. The primary motives that are constantly present in Goryany's paintings are numerous points, spirals, rays, as symbols of the connection between the Creator and man.

On the light side of the moon

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Garik Goryany was born and spent his childhood in the town of Belaya Tserkov, in an old house with a mezzanine, which has been surrounded by trees for more than a century. The history of this house and its inhabitants reflected like the prism the history of the country, its prosperous and sorrowful pages.

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Alexander Glezer about the artist Garik Goryan

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Ukrainian artist Igor Goryany began cooperation with our museum (Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in Jersey City - ed.) In 2006.

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DAEDALUS AND DEMONS

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«Мир кажется вращающимся кубиком, и все возвращается в него снова и снова; человек превращается в ангела, а ангел в человека, голова становится ступней, а ступня становится головой. Все вещи проявляют свои разные грани и вращаются, перевоплощаясь одно в другое. Это становится тем, а это - этим, верхнее становится нижним, а нижнее становится верхним ... Потому что все едино в своем корне, а освобождение коренится в реинкарнации и возвращении вещей ... » Раввин Нахман

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In Search of Lost Dreams

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In the paintings of Goryany, we observe an alchemical process, as a result of which cosmic energy, concentrated in black iron as the first phase of metallic matter, turns into the sensual world of primitive man. At the same time the colored alloys take on the fine-material energy, symbolizing the human transition from the wild to the civilized, pre-history to history, from pre-life to life.

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