Samvel Saghatelian aka Sam Saga
BIO
Samvel Saghatelian (aka Sam Saga) was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1958. He graduated from Yerevan Institute of Architecture and pursued a career in architecture. In 1988, at the brink of the collapse of USSR and Armenia’s independence, he started his journey as an artist.
In 2001, Saghatelian was one of the artists, who was representing the Armenian Pavilion in the 49th Venice Biennale in Italy, Plateau of Humankind.
In 2002, he was awarded a Fellowship from Arts Link (New York) for a residency program at Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, one of the largest international artists and writers program in the United States. He had his first solo exhibition there.
Very much attracted to the US art scene, Saghatelian moved to Los Angeles, California, where he currently lives and works.
Mission Statement: Mission Statement: I touch on human standards such as family values and prosperity, national survival, patriotism, and ideologies, and explore how individual lives and feelings have been sacrificed for the preservation of those standards.
SOLO SHOWS
2013 Mixed media project “TransRomanse”, Privet Apartment in one of the historic buildings in Yerevan, Armenia.
The concept of the exhibition touches the freedom of human being as human rights to choose his (her) sexual orientation and desire without being discriminated. As said the curator Vigen Galstyan “Regarding body, gender and sexual desire as a cultural and political phenomenon, Saghatelyan attempts to find a small platform of pleasure and enjoyment in the cross-section of these issues. At this ambigous, liminal point, the abscence of clear positions and answers itself becomes a kind of a solution”.
The concept of the show explores the nature of that power. Beyond the constraints of masculinity, the phallus becomes a symbol of human power itself, for better and worse. Enveloping, surrounding, and exploding through the material world, the ghost phallus becomes the primal and potent secret spirit, the undeniable driving energy inside churches, financial institutions, and even world leaders.
2004 Articultural Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
2004 Articultural Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
2003 Series “Grotesque Reality”, Harvest Gallery, Glendale, California, USA.
2002 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont State, USA.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2014 19 annual LA Art Show, 3 works from series “TransRomance”, Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2014 19 annual LA Art Show, 3 works from series “TransRomance”, Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2013 “Overload”, group show, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
2013 “Overload”, group show, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
2013 “The New Testosterone”, 3 person show, Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
CURATED SHOWS AT BLACK MARIA GALLERY IN LOS ANGELES
2009 “Knights and Hunters” Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
In the concept of the show we raised questions about the confusing expectations of men in modern times.
2007 IMMIGRANT PUNK, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 IMMIGRANT PUNK, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles
It is this constructive, hugely life-affirming aspect of immigration that our upcoming show celebrates. A veritable maelstrom of challenges awaits an immigrant in a new country: the language barrier, unfamiliar rules and ways of doing things, different traditions and cultural approaches, the very imperative of carving one’s own path out of an alien place.
2007 “BOUND & GAGGED”, group show of Prison Art from former USSR and from Los Angeles prisons and 15 international artists. Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles. The concept of the show was to push people to respond with a radical alternative to their boundaries, by channeling the desire for freedom into art. The Exhibition was comprise graffiti created especially for the exhibition by a number of Los Angeles artists, as well as ongoing screenings of a recent documentary on prison art. The graffiti component of the exhibition is being organized in collaboration with Gallery Crewest.
Esposizione internazionale
Pittura, Scultura, Proiezioni Multimediali,
#PercorsiFotografici e Installazioni Sensoriali.
INGRESSO GRATUITO
Progetto a cura dell’Ing. Giacomo C Tropeano
c/Fondazione “The Armenian Fine Arts Foundation”
realizzato in collaborazione con
Alba Lidia Tropeano
Assessorato alla Cultura e al Turismo del Comune di Napoli,
con il patrocinio dal Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali,
dell’Ambasciata della Repubblica d’Armenia in Italia,
della Regione Campania.
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