Sonia Balassanian
From Armenian origin
Categories: Multimedia
Find Sonia Balassanian books.
Documents of modern & contemporary art.
Market value of Sonia Balassanian works
Auction information for you to know the prices of Balassanian's art works. artprice
Wars and crisis areas are a constant feature of Sonia Balassanian’s work. Her concern in her more recent video works are the ramifications of a general war (albeit never referred to as such) being waged against the individual. The images of Balassanian’s multipart video work “Who Is the Victim?” for the Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia at the 52nd Venice Biennale tap into this universalized misery and suffering of war.
Nina Möntmann
My work explores and links my multi-faceted identity with the physical and perceptual world surrounding me and relates intimate images to broader social and cultural issues including gender identity and relations, the aftermath of war, and the role of the individual, especially the individual artist, in today’s society.
The simultaneous development of several ideas made possible by the video art format mirrors the rapidly shifting and essentially unresolved nature of those issues.
My language operates at a certain level of symbolic abstraction in order to evoke universal human experiences from specific situations.
Following are dialogues from “Who is the Victim?”:
The first is memories of the wife of a fallen freedom-fighter, and the second excerpts from diary of a conscript. These and similar situations are what affect my feelings on war and the pain and frustration caused by it…
find art prints & posters of Sonia Balassanian
Sonia Balassanian (or about) on YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Blogs | Images | Forums | News
To improve the information about the artist or to add comment, log in or sign up for a free account.
art book recommendations |
||||||||
 |
Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
|||||||
 |
South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
|||||||
 |
James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
|||||||
|
||||||||
Add your comment, review or link about the artist.