Serpent(s) Shed Skin marks the turn in Vardanyan work switching from paper to canvas. He experienced that the background of the canvas was relating to his sense of earth as also a synonym for the tangible.
It was the start of an intense conversation between the male archetype and a feminine landscape about cyclic renewals and the ambiguous idea of stripping off the past and liberating from memory. In order of desired release Vardanyan started working towards his vision of a tabula rasa from both sides of the canvas. Reaching out to the horizon of the material. The canvas disappeared, leaving a spiral trace behind, and the ethereal applied matter materialized.
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #1
2013
90 x 120 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of artist
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #11
80 x 97 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of artist
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #3
2013
80 x 97 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of artist
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #12
2013
80 x 97 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of artist
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #10/ Rosehip
2012
99 x 107 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of Private Collection
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #6
2014
96 x 93 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of Private Collection
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #8
2012
93 x 110 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of Private Collection
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #11
2013
99 x 107 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of Private Collection
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #4/ Aruch
2013
99 x 107 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of Private Collection
Serpent(s) Shed Skin #13
2013
104 x 108 cm
Mixed media on Canvas
Courtesy of Artist