Meet: artist Armen Asatryan

Paper Kartuli met with the artist and stylist through the hair Armen Asatryan. He talked about the unofficial Quir-rayon Tbilisi and the house resembling Dracula's castle, shared his sensations from rallies in Georgia and experiences due to the abilities of people who eluded people.

This is the “Portrait” section. In it, we introduce readers with people who are engaged in useful things in Georgia and whose life is interesting to us.

Who are you?

- My name is Armen. I arrived in Tbilisi from Moscow in March 2022. I have been working on a hair stylist, for 15 years in this profession. I also make objects of art and draw - mainly persons or scenes associated with the human movement, including an erotic nature.

I was born in the north of Russia, in the city of Dudinka. In fact, it is snow and permafrost. And now I am here where warm, plants and tall trees. There are no trees in Dudinka, only shrubs with half me, probably.

Tbilisi looks like a European city. Despite this, many say that he is battered. It seems that there is life in this city. He is alive, filled and deep. For example, graffiti that are not erased is a segment of life.

Where are we?

“We are on Giorgi Ahvelediani Street.” This is a very narrow street, but there are quite diverse buildings. This place is unofficially called Quir-Rayon, because here is the office [human rights LGBT+—Theorganization] Community. There are bars and restaurants where Quir-wrestling and constantly a lot of people gather.

During the day or week, this place lives a thousand emotions. On the weekend, it is very noisy, everything boils, buzzes, on weekdays - quietly and calmly. There is a house here (at the address: Giorgi Ahvelediani, 16 - approx. Paper Kartuli ), which I call the "French Riviera". He is all in flowering wisteria.

I am a crazy romantic in my soul, I like to look at everything through this prism, so that everything has a Fleur of love, art. This house is a movie, it resembles a Dracula castle (Giorgi Ahvelediani, 12 - approx. Paper Kartuli ).

I am madly like these spiers (on the roof of the house at the address: Giorgi Ahvelediani, 12 - approx. Paper Kartuli ). When the lights burn in the apartments late in the evening, the spiers look quite gloomy, but nice. I can imagine that Adam lives here from the film " Only lovers will survive ." Waiting for Eve to visit him. In general, ghouls live there.

How are you?

- Through the paintings, I express my own emotions, reflect on what is happening around. I am an absolutely urban person, and people are madly inspired by people. It always impresses me when a person is engaged in something useful or, conversely, abstract. Suppose he studies the wing of the butterfly. And so he is fond of this all his life - it is very beautiful.

I am pleased that Georgians understand their ways to rallies well, that people are not afraid here. They know that this is their city, they were born here, they protect themselves primarily and the future of their children. My soul was torn when I saw how my grandmother was standing on the street, at a rally, with a poster. I understand that she is already an old woman, she could not do this, but she understands that she has her grandchildren, and she wants them to live well.

At the same time, I am sincerely concerned about people [as a whole]. Do they lose the ability to love and trust? Given all the events of the last two years that are directly related to love, they somehow affect the feeling of comfort, the ability of people to fall in love and not think about what will happen next.

Calculation has become one of the main forms for filtering. It seems to me that she interferes with feeling. Thinking helps, but love is not brains. Love is a heart, soul. This is one of the main problems for me.

I can say that I generally worry about society, for the ability of people to continue to love sincerely.

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